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Army shifts approach to training, promoting SGMs.(Enlisted)

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The fiscal year 2009 Command Sergeant Major/Sergeant Major/Sergeants Major Course Selection Board will be conducted June 3-24. Eligible NCOs should remember that the Army has changed the way that it selects and trains future sergeants major.

The change is a shift from the former policy of train-select-promote to one of select-train-promote. It has eliminated the selection of alternates to attend the Sergeants Major Course, or SMC, at the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy.

Beginning with the FY 2008 selection beard, NCOs selected for the SMC are also selected for promotion after they complete the course. The transition requires that the selection board results be released in two lists: promotion and training.

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