Welcome to the Board Questions Podcast! The purpose of this podcast is to help you study for your Promotion Board or Soldier of the Month Board. We’ve formatted each episode to cover a topic you’ll likely see on your MOI, and cover each of the most-often asked questions during your board. We recommend you turn on this podcast to run in the background while you are driving, cooking, cleaning, or playing video games so that you can free up more of your valuable free-time, and still be a high-speed, well-studied, board-crushing machine. Feel free to either play from the beginning, and make this podcast a part of your life playing in the background, or skip to a specific topic that you want to nail down.

Everyone has a paragraph in the Creed of the Non-Commissioned Officer that they struggle with the most. Too many soldiers try to memorize the entire thing all at once, and let one or more paragraphs kind of fall by the wayside.

These episodes is designed to help you memorize the Creed of the Non-Commissioned Officer in more manageable chunks. I recommend starting with these episodes, and once you have them down solid, move onto the episode with the entire Creed. Then, once you've determined which paragraphs you struggle with, come back to those paragraphs and refine your memorization in a more targeted way.

Use this loop to stay sharp, stay motivated, and embody the leadership standards expected of every NCO.

Hit play, study hard, and prepare to dominate your board!

🔁 Listen. Repeat. Lead.

Everyone has a paragraph in the Creed of the Non-Commissioned Officer that they struggle with the most. Too many soldiers try to memorize the entire thing all at once, and let one or more paragraphs kind of fall by the wayside.

These episodes is designed to help you memorize the Creed of the Non-Commissioned Officer in more manageable chunks. I recommend starting with these episodes, and once you have them down solid, move onto the episode with the entire Creed. Then, once you've determined which paragraphs you struggle with, come back to those paragraphs and refine your memorization in a more targeted way.

Use this loop to stay sharp, stay motivated, and embody the leadership standards expected of every NCO.

Hit play, study hard, and prepare to dominate your board!

🔁 Listen. Repeat. Lead.

Everyone has a paragraph in the Creed of the Non-Commissioned Officer that they struggle with the most. Too many soldiers try to memorize the entire thing all at once, and let one or more paragraphs kind of fall by the wayside.

These episodes is designed to help you memorize the Creed of the Non-Commissioned Officer in more manageable chunks. I recommend starting with these episodes, and once you have them down solid, move onto the episode with the entire Creed. Then, once you've determined which paragraphs you struggle with, come back to those paragraphs and refine your memorization in a more targeted way.

Use this loop to stay sharp, stay motivated, and embody the leadership standards expected of every NCO.

Hit play, study hard, and prepare to dominate your board!

🔁 Listen. Repeat. Lead.

Memorize The Creed of the Non-Commissioned Officer by listening to it on a loop while you drive, cook, clean, or play video games!

This 1-hour loop of the Creed of the Non-Commissioned Officer can help you get ahead and crush your next promotion board or soldier of the month board.

"No one is more professional than I. I am a noncommissioned officer, a leader of Soldiers. As a noncommissioned officer, I realize that I am a member of a time honored corps, which is known as "The Backbone of the Army". I am proud of the Corps of noncommissioned officers and will at all times conduct myself so as to bring credit upon the Corps, the military service and my country regardless of the situation in which I find myself. I will not use my grade or position to attain pleasure, profit, or personal safety.

"Competence is my watchword. My two basic responsibilities will always be uppermost in my mind—accomplishment of my mission and the welfare of my Soldiers. I will strive to remain technically and tactically proficient. I am aware of my role as a noncommissioned officer. I will fulfill my responsibilities inherent in that role. All Soldiers are entitled to outstanding leadership; I will provide that leadership. I know my Soldiers and I will always place their needs above my own. I will communicate consistently with my Soldiers and never leave them uninformed. I will be fair and impartial when recommending both rewards and punishment.

"Officers of my unit will have maximum time to accomplish their duties; they will not have to accomplish mine. I will earn their respect and confidence as well as that of my Soldiers. I will be loyal to those with whom I serve; seniors, peers, and subordinates alike. I will exercise initiative by taking appropriate action in the absence of orders. I will not compromise my integrity, nor my moral courage. I will not forget, nor will I allow my comrades to forget that we are professionals, noncommissioned officers, leaders!"

Memorize the Soldier's Creed by listening to it on a loop while you drive, cook, clean, or play video games!

In this episode, we cover commonly asked questions about Rifle & Carbine Marksmanship. This topic is a part of most Promotion Board and Soldier of the Month Board MOIs, so we highly recommend studying this podcast.

These questions come from TC 3-22.9. We recommend reading TC 3-22.9 at least once during your career, and then using this episode regularly. Listen to it until you feel that you can accurately answer each question, and you will crush this section of your board.

In this episode, we aren't going to just ask and answer a bunch of questions about TC 3-22.9. No, we are going to focus on questions that are at a difficulty level that every SPC should be able to answer.

The episode is broken into 4 chapters:

The Pre-Test

The Lesson

The Re-Test

Repetition

Feel free to jump into the Pre-Test, and if you know everything, skip to the next difficulty level. If you want to know more about a question, stick around for the Lesson, where we will teach you what everything means. Then we'll re-evaluate at the Re-Test, and help you have it down consciously and sub-consciously in the Repetition chapter.

The questions we are going over are:

What does "Weapons Hold" weapon control status mean?

What does "Weapons Tight" weapon control status mean?

What does "Weapons Free" weapon control status mean?

Why does the M4 use 25 meters to zero when it's actually set at 300 meters?

What are the 3 phases of ballistics?

What are internal ballistics?

What are external ballistics?

What are terminal ballistics?

What are the five phases of rifle marksmanship training/basic rifle marksmanship (BRM)?