I got Soldier of the Month for Company because there was only two of us competing and the other guy was a complete idiot. I also got smoked for doing so poorly. I was by no means a gung ho soldier, but I felt embarrassed for looking so bad. Oh yeah, if you win which I technically did, then you have to do it all over again at the Battalion level. I didn't want to embarrass myself again, so I prepared for that board and ended up winning it. Then I got 2nd at Brigade. I hated doing it at the time, but it actually taught me how to prepare for job interviews after I got out of the Army.
All soldiers are entitled too outstanding leadership. Where are their sponsors because it looks like their leadership failed them by sending them to the solider on the month board unprepared.
@@briancasteel1222 I mean it typically happens. NCO's are people too and contradict the creed all the time. I've seen it all. There are some outstanding NCO's that go above and beyond and make sure you're squared away. Nobody will help you on the board like a well seasoned E-4 tho. For the most part we got ourselves right with study guides and group mock boards. There are just some shitty sergeants out there.
Lol im such a dummy I had gone to the promotional board and was totally unprepared, I gained some weight and my ASU's got a little tight so I kept my stomach in but the 1st Sgt noticed my lack of oxygen and sternly asked "whats wrong? Youre afraid you're going to pop a button and hit Sergeant major in the forehead?" LOL I busted out laughing and from there on my board just became worse.
Lol in their defense though. Your told not to think in the army. “Your not paid to think, your paid to do what your told” he wasn’t told to pick the chair up he was told to take seat.
Just did my first board today, my company’s SOM boards are no joke, they pull out a fog machine, strobe light, speaker, pro mask, m4A1, M17, first aid mannequin, and a whole lot of other shit. And legit it’s like a red phase of basic training for 30 minutes😂
@@MayLynn1977 I guess I was always good bc I was always prepared. My platoon Sgt would have study sessions anytime we weren't busy. I got in the habit of studying an hour every other day in my free time as well. When the board finally came around I had nothing to worry about as I already had most of the study guide memorized. This also helped out once I became an NCO bc I usually knew what the right things to do were based off the regs.
E-4 mafia days: These boards were always done Saturday afternoons. I would intentionally bomb the SoM board every time because I was forced to do it. I would rehearse the board with my Company CO and 1sg the week prior to show them I knew everything there was to know. Went in as a soup sandwich so I can get out of my uniform and get off post. Until my CO told me I wouldn’t go to the E-5 promotion board unless I quit screwing around and get the SoM. Went in and won it. My CO gave my bluefalcon squadleader/NCO an Army Achievement Medal for “his hard work and dedication to train his soldier to go above army standards…” Typical.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I remember those days of being nervous at Soldier of the month board or soldier of the Year Board never so nervous where I would have tried to sit in a chair that's laying down though
I disagree repeating words over and over eventually makes you believe them even if it’s not true in reality like being a professional but yes in this instance the words and creed are meaningless and have been since the creation of this country because the biggest enemies of America and the world already rule it and have for a few centuries now
@@Space_CowboyHD well the us government is owned and controlled by someone perhaps it is people with money perhaps it is the people that own the nations money printing and debt it’s not the us or the government that’s the issue they are just tools like any other country or nation eventually China will take up the mantel of what America once was and eventually China will collapse just as America and on and on the story goes
@@usefulidiot7885 Fuck no, a Creed doesn't make you a good soldier never has never will. cause if that creed was so freakin good and meant something we wouldn't have so many Sgt's that suck ass at basic leadership. a creed doesn't make you a good leader end of story. That's like saying the pledge makes everyone a good citizen or makes you a good U.S President cause you memorized a pledge because some fuck wanted some Brownie points or look good. its empty words. it would be better to ask someone their idea of what a good soldier is. not a script.
The news show I was watching downstairs, the previous promotion board video I saw, and this video has been making my morning very entertaining and hilarious. I am really enjoying myself right now lol.
Lol I already knew what was going to happen, people may comment about him not thinking but I’ve been there going to your first bored and being a wreck. I saluted sitting down!
I would have walked out if one of my soldiers tried sit in that chair sideways! Lord your given plenty of time to prepare for the board. This is funny.
in my 18 years of service I've seen many boards that decide to do on Monday ant the CSM meeting on a Thursday right before close of business formation and the soldiers or told Friday they are going to the Board lol . but as soon as the CSM put the chair on its side I knew a soilder was going to try seating in it like it was instead of asking permission to bring the chair to it's upright position LMAO
Now i am a Marine, we get promotion panels likes this from Private First Class to Sergeant. Past that it’s completely different. It’s still not just so easy to try and memorize absolutely every little detail about the Marine Corps to the point that every question gets answered to the upmost extent. I swear though, if any of my time during my promotion panels I EVER walked in and i saw the chair i was supposed to sit in was placed on its side like this, id just walk right back out.😂
My 19yr old left Nov 3rd this yr for the Army. I imagine the last PVT being him. I pray, please Lord, that my child would/will have sense enough to pick the darn chair up! Could not stop laughing! This was great!
I love how when in training they tried to drill all those hypocrite knowledges into those young good men wanting them to do nothing else but stfu and following order like a machine and still expect them to know common sense, but when those young soldiers use common sense they get punish.
Stfu. Part of the test was to see if this person has initiative. If we were drilled to do nothing else but stfu and “following order like a machine..” then common sense and initiate wouldn’t be a leadership trait command looks for in their top soldiers. Puppets and yes men don’t survive in the combat arms. So go back to your dumpster fire life believing our all-volunteer Military soldiers are brainwashed and corrupted into baby eating killing machines. Lol
@@Smiley1967 Yes he could, but the guy was so scare/ nervous he didn't ask because during training, you don't ask question, you just follow order. It take quite sometimes to break that mold. some only need a few weeks, some may take up to months.
Not gunna lie, my first soldier of X board entry was terrifying. They mean mugged my ass as soon as I walked in. Little ol' 18 year old me was terrified of those old men.
At my promotion board for SGT the 1SGs always did stuff to try and distract the Soldier. I had 2 1SGs in the back playing catch with their phone, I almost lost it🤣🤣
Why would you ask? You were given permission to sit. To sit, the chair must be in the correct position. If a soldier can't follow orders without every step spelled out, they are a piss poor soldier.
I have been to a soldier of the month board. I put the seat up to sit on it, and got kicked out. The rule is you are not supposed to put up chair to sit on it. Leave it how it is and sit.
HAHA I remember that place. I graduated in that room. The soldiers in class A's don't unit patches cause they're still in AIT (job specific school for you civies) 25 Series Signal. "from flag and tourch in the civil war to signal satel....."
Thankfully i didn't have to go to the board just straight to BLC. Then BLC only lasted 1 week because COVID had just hit fort Stewart so we all graduated super early
I went in for Airman of the Month (USAF) the questioning at first was USAF and job related, then they started asking me about sports. Like "Do you like football?" and I'd say something like "Sure, I watch football sometimes." The they'd go off on questions like "Who holds the NFL record for yards rushing in one game" and stuff like that. "Ummm...I don't really follow it that close." Then he'd say, "Well, you really don't know anything about sports, that's all for today." The next time I went in they asked me the same questions, this time I said, "Yes I like sports, I really like European bicycle racing". They'd look at each other then go, "Well...ummmm...that's all for today Airman Wootie". The next time they told me I was up for Airman of the Month again, I said "Naw...pick someone who knows about football." I never got asked to go again.
Uhh if you look at some of the other comments...this was real..and it was actually the CSM at the unit that put it together..This was at an active duty instillation where soldiers were trained to do their profession. So yes it was a skit put together..no it was not reserves..
I got out in 2004 and this is the Army now. Good Lord! They need to find their squad leader and fire his ass. I would never send ,any of my Soldiers like that for the Soldier of the Month Board. This is so ate the Fuck Up!
@jsandoval1987 are....are you serious? DUH it's not a SOM board..if it was the "CSM" would have his unit patch on and other stuff...for anyone who's enlisted..they would have noticed this..so i humored your response...happy? lol
Damn.
In my day I got Soldier of the Month because the board was on a Monday after a payday and I was the only candidate who was sober.
LOL
Bruhh‼
😂😂😂😂😂
@Boo Alex I don't need, nor want, the gratitude of troll accounts.
I got Soldier of the Month for Company because there was only two of us competing and the other guy was a complete idiot. I also got smoked for doing so poorly. I was by no means a gung ho soldier, but I felt embarrassed for looking so bad. Oh yeah, if you win which I technically did, then you have to do it all over again at the Battalion level. I didn't want to embarrass myself again, so I prepared for that board and ended up winning it. Then I got 2nd at Brigade. I hated doing it at the time, but it actually taught me how to prepare for job interviews after I got out of the Army.
I love how he remembered to put his feet together as if he tried to sit at attention.
Wouldn't want anyone to see up his skirt.
@@theaberrantdon fucking POGs man
All soldiers are entitled too outstanding leadership. Where are their sponsors because it looks like their leadership failed them by sending them to the solider on the month board unprepared.
@@briancasteel1222 I mean it typically happens. NCO's are people too and contradict the creed all the time. I've seen it all. There are some outstanding NCO's that go above and beyond and make sure you're squared away. Nobody will help you on the board like a well seasoned E-4 tho. For the most part we got ourselves right with study guides and group mock boards. There are just some shitty sergeants out there.
You guys do know this is a comedy skit, right?
Cannot stop laughing….”go out to the parking lot and recite the American Soldier’s Creed until I get tired!!”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
lmfao. the guy at the end looked so serious until he took his seat.
Lol im such a dummy I had gone to the promotional board and was totally unprepared, I gained some weight and my ASU's got a little tight so I kept my stomach in but the 1st Sgt noticed my lack of oxygen and sternly asked "whats wrong? Youre afraid you're going to pop a button and hit Sergeant major in the forehead?" LOL I busted out laughing and from there on my board just became worse.
😂😂
I swear only the funniest mother fuckers get promoted to command sergeant major.
*became better.... For them
IM WHEEZING.
🤣🤣🤣
"FOWARD MARCH-get out of here"
Always gets me lol
May not be real but you know you could so see it happening anyway.
I believe this is real 😂. There are people in the military that lack common sense.
This shit happens firs dude didn’t even know the soldiers creed. I’ve been out 17 years and can still recite it
Oh shit hey this is a mock board it’s real
Lol in their defense though. Your told not to think in the army. “Your not paid to think, your paid to do what your told” he wasn’t told to pick the chair up he was told to take seat.
@@ShooterMcgavin6 very true 😂
I don't know what's worst- the fact that I thought this was real at first, or the fact that it's believable for the Army to suck like this.
"You better look up and find some divine intervention, solider". CTFU!!!!
The implied task was to adjust the chair after requesting permission to do so.
At first I was mad because I have sat in on boards and yes, some soldiers are that bad. But that last guy was just freaking hilarious. Great gag real.
lmfao the guy at the end had it going good too lmfao
Just did my first board today, my company’s SOM boards are no joke, they pull out a fog machine, strobe light, speaker, pro mask, m4A1, M17, first aid mannequin, and a whole lot of other shit. And legit it’s like a red phase of basic training for 30 minutes😂
man wtf wya?
i never heard of all that! sounds lit af lmaao
You couldn’t put me on the promotional board!! I’d be laughing at all the soldiers giving ridiculous answers!!!😂😂😂😂
Same here.
I never could understand how anyone could show up to the board and not know the creed. You can literally memorize it on a days notice no problem.
It's called being nervous.
@@ChuukeseStink The best way to get rid of nerves is to be prepared.
@@drewcliff82 Exactly, but what I'm saying is that people do get nervous and they tend to forget things.
@@drewcliff82 and to not be in such a rush.
@@MayLynn1977 I guess I was always good bc I was always prepared. My platoon Sgt would have study sessions anytime we weren't busy. I got in the habit of studying an hour every other day in my free time as well. When the board finally came around I had nothing to worry about as I already had most of the study guide memorized. This also helped out once I became an NCO bc I usually knew what the right things to do were based off the regs.
E-4 mafia days: These boards were always done Saturday afternoons. I would intentionally bomb the SoM board every time because I was forced to do it. I would rehearse the board with my Company CO and 1sg the week prior to show them I knew everything there was to know. Went in as a soup sandwich so I can get out of my uniform and get off post.
Until my CO told me I wouldn’t go to the E-5 promotion board unless I quit screwing around and get the SoM.
Went in and won it. My CO gave my bluefalcon squadleader/NCO an Army Achievement Medal for “his hard work and dedication to train his soldier to go above army standards…”
Typical.
idk how but I dodged all those boards and got promoted based on my job performance.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I remember those days of being nervous at Soldier of the month board or soldier of the Year Board never so nervous where I would have tried to sit in a chair that's laying down though
Even the last dude screwed up the creed. Ohwell, I hate the creed anyways. Nothing but empty words and in no way makes a good soldier.
I disagree repeating words over and over eventually makes you believe them even if it’s not true in reality like being a professional but yes in this instance the words and creed are meaningless and have been since the creation of this country because the biggest enemies of America and the world already rule it and have for a few centuries now
Useful Idiot One of the biggest enemies of the world is the US government anyway lmao
@@Space_CowboyHD well the us government is owned and controlled by someone perhaps it is people with money perhaps it is the people that own the nations money printing and debt it’s not the us or the government that’s the issue they are just tools like any other country or nation eventually China will take up the mantel of what America once was and eventually China will collapse just as America and on and on the story goes
I am the Soldier's creed.
@@usefulidiot7885 Fuck no, a Creed doesn't make you a good soldier never has never will. cause if that creed was so freakin good and meant something we wouldn't have so many Sgt's that suck ass at basic leadership. a creed doesn't make you a good leader end of story. That's like saying the pledge makes everyone a good citizen or makes you a good U.S President cause you memorized a pledge because some fuck wanted some Brownie points or look good. its empty words. it would be better to ask someone their idea of what a good soldier is. not a script.
The news show I was watching downstairs, the previous promotion board video I saw, and this video has been making my morning very entertaining and hilarious. I am really enjoying myself right now lol.
The guy that sat on the chair won
Lol I already knew what was going to happen, people may comment about him not thinking but I’ve been there going to your first bored and being a wreck. I saluted sitting down!
I agree, real or not-IT IS HILARIOUS!! #Parody
lmfao @ the soldier trying to sit on the chair! HAHAHAHAHA
I would have walked out if one of my soldiers tried sit in that chair sideways! Lord your given plenty of time to prepare for the board. This is funny.
in my 18 years of service I've seen many boards that decide to do on Monday ant the CSM meeting on a Thursday right before close of business formation and the soldiers or told Friday they are going to the Board lol .
but as soon as the CSM put the chair on its side I knew a soilder was going to try seating in it like it was instead of asking permission to bring the chair to it's upright position LMAO
This never gets old
The NCO on the left was the company 1SG of the Signal Company in my battalion in Korea. 2010.
Now i am a Marine, we get promotion panels likes this from Private First Class to Sergeant. Past that it’s completely different. It’s still not just so easy to try and memorize absolutely every little detail about the Marine Corps to the point that every question gets answered to the upmost extent.
I swear though, if any of my time during my promotion panels I EVER walked in and i saw the chair i was supposed to sit in was placed on its side like this, id just walk right back out.😂
ahh, Fort Gordon. I'm so glad I'm gone
It was all going soooo well.....that darn chair!!!!!
My 19yr old left Nov 3rd this yr for the Army. I imagine the last PVT being him. I pray, please Lord, that my child would/will have sense enough to pick the darn chair up! Could not stop laughing! This was great!
Your not supposed to pick up the chair. I went to one of those once. The chair is left there intentionally
I love how when in training they tried to drill all those hypocrite knowledges into those young good men wanting them to do nothing else but stfu and following order like a machine and still expect them to know common sense, but when those young soldiers use common sense they get punish.
Stfu. Part of the test was to see if this person has initiative. If we were drilled to do nothing else but stfu and “following order like a machine..” then common sense and initiate wouldn’t be a leadership trait command looks for in their top soldiers. Puppets and yes men don’t survive in the combat arms. So go back to your dumpster fire life believing our all-volunteer Military soldiers are brainwashed and corrupted into baby eating killing machines. Lol
@@infadel885 nah he’s right
@@infadel885 u good bruh
Couldnt he just asked to get the chair in the right position?
@@Smiley1967 Yes he could, but the guy was so scare/ nervous he didn't ask because during training, you don't ask question, you just follow order. It take quite sometimes to break that mold. some only need a few weeks, some may take up to months.
This is funny but trust me they have passed soldiers to NCOs with thinking just like this......exactly why I got the hell out lol
I think you should just imagine the seat upright, and sit on an imaginary seat like a boss.
Not gunna lie, my first soldier of X board entry was terrifying. They mean mugged my ass as soon as I walked in. Little ol' 18 year old me was terrified of those old men.
At my promotion board for SGT the 1SGs always did stuff to try and distract the Soldier. I had 2 1SGs in the back playing catch with their phone, I almost lost it🤣🤣
i had so much hope for the last one lol
Has anyone thought to ask to fix the chair?
Why would you ask? You were given permission to sit. To sit, the chair must be in the correct position. If a soldier can't follow orders without every step spelled out, they are a piss poor soldier.
OMG...This video makes me laugh until I cry!! Its Hilarious!!
I see my current brigade CSM sitting on this board 😅😅😅
Good old’ Fort Gordon, GA Sergeant Major Fernandez still hasn’t recovered from that incident.
I have been to a soldier of the month board. I put the seat up to sit on it, and got kicked out. The rule is you are not supposed to put up chair to sit on it. Leave it how it is and sit.
Oh shit ! Why I did not think of doing some fun stuff on my board in 2018? Sadly missing chance to have fun 🤩
Get the last person a go. U messed it up sgm 😂!
We Marines are killing ourselves.laughing. Got to love a Hooah.
Love this video! Awesome!
HAHA I remember that place. I graduated in that room.
The soldiers in class A's don't unit patches cause they're still in AIT (job specific school for you civies) 25 Series Signal. "from flag and tourch in the civil war to signal satel....."
Signal all the way I remembered this video....I miss AIT
LOL you would never see a Marine of the Quarter Board like that 2 funny!!!!
Hooah 447 Sig BN!
I remember waxing that floor!
I was NOT expecting that! 🤣🤣🤣 Whew! How I just cackled!!! I'm glad I stayed for the end.
😂😂😂 If this ain’t the funniest thing ever
I am done lol
he was doin good til the chair got him
Thankfully i didn't have to go to the board just straight to BLC. Then BLC only lasted 1 week because COVID had just hit fort Stewart so we all graduated super early
I went in for Airman of the Month (USAF) the questioning at first was USAF and job related, then they started asking me about sports. Like "Do you like football?" and I'd say something like "Sure, I watch football sometimes." The they'd go off on questions like "Who holds the NFL record for yards rushing in one game" and stuff like that. "Ummm...I don't really follow it that close." Then he'd say, "Well, you really don't know anything about sports, that's all for today." The next time I went in they asked me the same questions, this time I said, "Yes I like sports, I really like European bicycle racing". They'd look at each other then go, "Well...ummmm...that's all for today Airman Wootie". The next time they told me I was up for Airman of the Month again, I said "Naw...pick someone who knows about football." I never got asked to go again.
LOL at you guys taking this serious. It's obviously a comedy skit.
This is not fake...I'm dying.
Bro is sittin sideways like Paul wall
They fucked with me at the SGT Audie Murphy board
FYI This is staged....
Staged or not. All three are “Epic Fails”
#3 was probably the most entertaining though.
Sweet Jesus thank you this was hard to watch
Lmao!!! He was just following orders i guess!!!
I mever wanna go to the soldier of the month board
HOLY SHIT thats FIRST SERGEANT THOMAS i think
Top asking those fun questions hoah
yeaaa this was my ait unit at fort gordon lol not surprised tbh
hahahah I got a kick outa that. I was soldier of the mounth once, way back in the day. :-)
you can always ask to re-position the chair
They are privates, they don't think
He didn't tell him to move the seat you didn't tell him to change the seat he told him to sit in it
THIS IS TO MUCH LOL I LOVE OUR ARMY :) I WONDER WHAT SIMON (AMERICAN IDOL ) WOULD OF DONE IN THIS ONE LOL
man this exactly how i imagine itll go for me
Holy shit, Ive spent an entire night waxing that floor before haha Fort Gordon was the worst experience I've ever had.
Put the chair in the corner 🤣
447, baby. lol Gotta love it.
Anyone else notice that sergeant major doesn’t have a unit patch? That whole battalion is ate up.
It's a skit
@@Nejp20001 well even if it is they can get the uniform right. lol
@@superiorherocollectibles5831it’s a skit…. It is intentional…….
@@jsphlml yeah ok
The soldiers creed is weak sauce. The infantrymans creed!
Someone at my unit told me this was at his school....in Louisville Ky
Uhh if you look at some of the other comments...this was real..and it was actually the CSM at the unit that put it together..This was at an active duty instillation where soldiers were trained to do their profession. So yes it was a skit put together..no it was not reserves..
Thanks for the laugh James. Joke was on SM the whole time? Lol I miss the Army..
I am pretty sure he could have picked up the chair to sit properly. :P
the soldiers creed its easy to rember but when ur put on the spot thats a diff story lol
Ate up! lol
I don't know whether it is fake or not, but I have seen soldiers get put out of the board for not being prepared. This was too funny.
No you look back and take seat. No matter how the seat is.
that's funny.I like the last part...
Fort Gordon! nice.
Fort Gordon's finest.
I got out in 2004 and this is the Army now. Good Lord! They need to find their squad leader and fire his ass. I would never send ,any of my Soldiers like that for the Soldier of the Month Board. This is so ate the Fuck Up!
I’m dead
@BOUBOU: Your hatred is comical.
Oh my gosh 😂😂
That didn't just happen!
Real of Not, this is funny!
That's a fact. I was one that got to go home and help recruit. I made 2k before taxes for it. :)
Ahh the good ole days, hooah, just pick the chair up pfc God d**n
@yourtony99 Because that was ridiculous, soldiers are a direct reflection of their leadership and I would make sure that never happened again.
@stealthwolf01 The only boards I've been through were 3-man boards. Maybe thats bc they were joint service.
this was a what not to do video
Wow.... If this were my soldier i would have him fucking front, back, gooooooo for the next week.
Funnies I love watching this......
@jsandoval1987 are....are you serious? DUH it's not a SOM board..if it was the "CSM" would have his unit patch on and other stuff...for anyone who's enlisted..they would have noticed this..so i humored your response...happy? lol
haha at first funny then when I saw nothing on the board leaders uniform i was like dam that would have been good.