Preparing for the Board

Paul has been preparing for the board. The promotion board. He does it this way every time, first he has to lose weight, and pass a PT Test (Physical Training Test). For his age he has to Run 2 miles in less than 17 Minutes 42 seconds, has to do 40 sit ups in 2 minutes, and 30 Push ups in 2 minutes. He usually doesn't have much trouble passing the test as much as he has trouble weighing what the military wants him to weigh (I'm sure it has nothing to do with my cooking or the treats we always have around).

So he is almost there he past those and updated his ERB. The document of his military history, schools he's been to both military and civilian, the weapons he is qualified in shooting, his pt score, and all the units he's been a part of, each of those have a score attached to it and he can be promoted by his score. Each month the army lowers or raises the cut off scores depending on if the need of soldiers in certain ranks. If the Army determines they need more E6 Soldiers in the MOS of an 88M (a truck driver) they lower the cut off so soldiers can be promoted for that position if they have an ERB score that exceeds the cut off number. Did I confuse you? Example Paul is a SGT and has a score of say 650 on his ERB the Army decides they need more SSG's (one step up from SGT) If they drop the cut off to 649 or lower Paul gets promoted that month. If they drop it to 651 or higher Paul won't get promoted but other soldiers with higher scores will.

His board date is the 29th. We got his Class A uniform all ready updating his ribbon rack and sewing on the correct patches for his current unit, rank, and time in service stripes. I think He ready to face them on Thursday. I'm sure he will do well, he has this thing about him that if he puts his mind to it it happens easily for him. He says he gets nervous, but he never really shows that ever.