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Here is a collection of all of the army board questions from the board questions podcast. We recommend studying individual topics found on your MOI, but we've provided a complete list here for those that prefer to study that way.

Suicide Prevention

Suicide Prevention

Promotion Board Question

What is suicide postvention?

Securing and protecting suicidal individuals before they cause additional harm to themselves and/or others after a suicide has been attempted or completed.

Army Body Composition

Army Body Composition

Promotion Board Question

What constitutes failure in the ABCP?

Failure includes less than satisfactory progress for two consecutive months, or three non consecutive months in a 6-month period, or failing to meet standards within 12 months of enrollment.

SHARP

SHARP

Promotion Board Question

Who can a Soldier report a Sexual Assault to if they want to keep it restricted?

SARCs, Victim Advocates, Healthcare Providers, Champlain, and friends and family as long as friends and family don't tell chain of command or law enforcement.

Army Body Composition

Army Body Composition

Promotion Board Question

What is the purpose of the Army Body Composition Program (ABCP)?

Enforce standards of body fat composition as a condition of service and to ensure all Soldiers achieve and maintain optimal well-being and performance under all conditions.

Army Leadership

Army Leadership

Promotion Board Question

What is Esprit de Corp?

Esprit de corps denotes the Army’s winning spirit—a collective ethos of camaraderie, mutual trust, and cohesive teamwork.

First Aid

First Aid

Promotion Board Question

What is a combat lifesaver?

A non‑medical soldier trained for enhanced first aid.

SHARP

SHARP

Promotion Board Question

What are the three echelons of sexual assault victim advocates (VAs) in a Garrison Environment?

1. The installation sexual assault response coordinator (SARC) 2. Installation victim advocates (IVA) 3. Unit victim advocates (UVAs).

NCO Common Core Competencies

NCO Common Core Competencies

Promotion Board Question

What are the NCO common core competencies?

Readiness, Leadership, Training Management, Communication, Operations, and Program Management.

Rifle & Carbine Marksmanship

Rifle & Carbine Marksmanship

Promotion Board Question

What should you do if you squeeze the trigger, hear a audible click, but the round doesn't fire?

Immediate action to clear the round from the weapon. Rack the charging handle, tap the forward assist, and reassess by squeezing the trigger.

Holistic Health & Fitness

Holistic Health & Fitness

Promotion Board Question

What is Spiritual Readiness?

The ability to maintain one’s core beliefs, values, and sense of purpose, especially in the face of adversity or moral challenges.

Equal Opportunity

Equal Opportunity

Promotion Board Question

What is the purpose of the EO program?

EO Program formulates, directs, and sustains a comprehensive effort to maximize human potential and to ensure fair treatment for all persons based solely on merit, fitness, and capability in support of readiness.

Army Community Service

Army Community Service

Promotion Board Question

What are the criteria for establishing an ACS center on an installation?

An installation must have 500 or more active duty Soldiers, authorization by HQDA, and space provided by the garrison commander.

The Army

The Army

Promotion Board Question

What is meant by the Army’s role to win?

Winning is the achievement of the purpose of an operation and the fulfillment of its objectives.

First Aid

First Aid

Promotion Board Question

What steps should you take to help a casualty while under fire?

Return fire, Determine if casualty is still alive and responds to voice, direct casualty to return fire, move to cover, and perform self-aid, or play dead. Once enemy has been suppressed, approach casualty, apply tourniquet if necessary, and move casualty to safety.

Army Substance Abuse Program

Army Substance Abuse Program

Promotion Board Question

What does "zero tolerance" mean in the context of the ASAP?

The Army does not condone illegal drug use and will take appropriate administrative action, including separation, for violations.

First Aid

First Aid

Promotion Board Question

How do you do mouth to mouth rescue breathing?

Maintain the chin-lift while pinching the nostrils closed, take a regular breath and make an airtight seal around the casualty's mouth with your mouth, give a slow breath into the casualty's mouth, watching for the chest to rise. If it does, break the seal and allow the air to escape, and repeat.

NCO Development

NCO Development

Promotion Board Question

Explain the ends, ways, means concept of leader development.

Ends are the desired leader outcomes; ways are how the Army achieves them; means are the resources of will, time, people, and funding.

SHARP

SHARP

Promotion Board Question

How is sexual assault defined in AR 600-52?

Criminal intentional sexual contact by force, threats, intimidation, abuse of authority, or without consent. Includes offenses like rape and aggravated sexual contact under the UCMJ.

The Army

The Army

Promotion Board Question

What domain does the Army operate in?

The Army operates in all domains, converging its capabilities to control land.

NCO Development

NCO Development

Promotion Board Question

What is leader development?

A deliberate, continuous, and progressive process that grows Soldiers into competent, committed, professional leaders of character.

Equal Opportunity

Equal Opportunity

Promotion Board Question

Can EO complaints be anonymous?

Yes, but the commander must decide if enough information exists to proceed.

Counseling

Counseling

Promotion Board Question

What is the goal of crisis counseling?

Getting a Soldier through a period of shock after receiving negative news, such as the notification of the death of a loved one or divorce.

NCO Common Core Competencies

NCO Common Core Competencies

Promotion Board Question

What are the 6 leadership styles?

Authoritative, Affiliative, Democratic, Coaching, Pacesetting, and Coercive.

Rifle & Carbine Marksmanship

Rifle & Carbine Marksmanship

Promotion Board Question

What are terminal ballistics?

The physics of what happens to a round after it touches a target and tears through it, deflects off of it, or flattens against it.

The Army

The Army

Promotion Board Question

What is an example of joint interdependence?

The Army provides communications, engineering, and logistics support to other Services.

Equal Opportunity

Equal Opportunity

Promotion Board Question

According to AR 600-20 Chapter 6, what is Sexual Orientation?

An enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, or sexual attraction to individuals of the same gender, a different gender, or more than one gender.

NCO Development

NCO Development

Promotion Board Question

What is NCODP?

The Noncommissioned Officer Development Program.

SHARP

SHARP

Promotion Board Question

What are the five techniques of dealing with Sexual Harassment?

Direct approach, Indirect approach, Third party, Chain of command, and Filing a formal complaint.

Drill & Ceremony

Drill & Ceremony

Promotion Board Question

What are the five types of commands in drill?

The five types are two-part, combined, supplementary, directive, and mass commands.

NCO Common Core Competencies

NCO Common Core Competencies

Promotion Board Question

What are Specified duties?

Those related to jobs and positions, mainly military occupational specialty related duties.

The Army

The Army

Promotion Board Question

What are the Army’s 7 enabling competencies?

Shape the operational environment, prevent conflict, prevail in large-scale ground combat, consolidate gains, sustain the force, engage with partners, and integrate national, multinational, and joint power on land.

Counseling

Counseling

Promotion Board Question

What is the non-directive approach to counseling?

The non-directive approach to counseling places more responsibility on the subordinate to identify problems and develop solutions.

Army Body Composition

Army Body Composition

Promotion Board Question

What happens when a Soldier is removed from the ABCP?

The commander will remove the DA Form 268 and counsel the Soldier on the importance of maintaining body composition and the potential for future re-enrollment if standards are not maintained.

The Army

The Army

Promotion Board Question

What are the 7 Army Values?

Loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity, and personal courage.

The Army

The Army

Promotion Board Question

What does it mean to have adaptive and innovative leaders?

They are comfortable with complexity and capable of operating from the tactical to the strategic level.

M2 .50 Cal

M2 .50 Cal

Promotion Board Question

What is the amber weapon safety status for the M2?

Ammunition in the feedway, t-slot empty, chamber empty, bolt forward, safety on.

Rifle & Carbine Marksmanship

Rifle & Carbine Marksmanship

Promotion Board Question

What is the difference between a switch (aka circuitry) shot and a timer (aka hydraulic) shot?

A switch shot immediately incapacitates a target, and a timer shot hits the target in a way that they will incapacitate slowly. Does the target "switch off" or do they lose "hydraulic" blood pressure, meaning they can still fight until they expire.

Army Emergency Relief

Army Emergency Relief

Promotion Board Question

Can AER assist Soldiers of other Services?

Yes, when aid facilities of the Soldier's own Service are not readily available.

Wear & Appearance

Wear & Appearance

Promotion Board Question

What hair colors are not allowed?

Purple, blue, pink, green, orange, bright red, and neon colors.

Army Leadership

Army Leadership

Promotion Board Question

What is confidence?

The projection of your belief in your ability to accomplish the mission and retain composure and demonstrate calm through steady control over emotion.

Army Leadership

Army Leadership

Promotion Board Question

What are some ways you increase your informal leadership?

Personal initiative, special knowledge, unique experiences, or technical expertise exercised with competence, showing others that you are someone that can get stuff done and is worth following.

The Army

The Army

Promotion Board Question

What is meant by the Army having “depth”?

It has the capacity to sustain operations over time and absorb losses.

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