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e. Soldiers who are reduced and then considered for promotion will retain credit for any NCOES courses with whichthey have been credited per this chapter.f. Army policy does not allow NCOES credit for professional development courses conducted by the Navy, AirForce or Coast Guard. Do not submit requests for waiver or exception to policy. Exception is ROTC Advanced Campas referenced in paragraph 7–24a(17).g. Marine Corps courses conducted under the auspices of the Marine Corps Combat Development Command, areincluded in paragraph 7–24a(4) through (9). These courses are conducted at the Staff NCO Academies at Marine Corpsbases Quantico, Camp Lejeune, Camp Pendleton, Camp Butler, Camp Crowder (USMCR), and selected other MarineCorps bases. Any other Marine Corps NCO School is considered a unit school and is not creditable here. Also, MarineCorps Institute courses are correspondence courses and are not creditable here. Waivers or exceptions to policy forthose courses will not be submitted.h. Soldiers credited with courses under prior policies retain credit until promoted. This includes special savingsprovisions for MTs prescribed in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994, P.L. 103–160, sections523(b) and (c).Section VPromotion Process Overview7–27. OverviewThe ARNG and ARNGUS promotion selection process establishes the means to—a. Consider all eligible Soldiers.b. Evaluate each Soldiers potential.c. Rank and then select the best qualified Soldiers for promotion.d. Prepare the Soldier with the necessary training for assignment at the next higher grade.7–28. Promotion Processa. States will conduct annual promotion boards for each grade and publish a promotion list. States are authorized tosupplement their annual promotion lists for Specialist to Sergeant and Sergeant to Staff Sergeant by conductingquarterly or semi-annual boards. States will follow the same procedures for conducting the supplemental boards;however the TIMIG and TIS will be calculated from the new board date. The selection objective will list in promotionsequence the best qualified Soldiers who will be assigned to current vacancies (within the State structure) in highergraded positions that go with the promotions per section X of this chapter.b. The promotion list is neither a permanent standing list nor an order of merit list. Each promotion list published bythe State AG is a new list and is intended to remain valid until exhausted or expires on the date established by the StateAG (MPMO). With the exception of Soldiers selected and assigned from the list and those approved for CSM by theHQDA (NGB) ARNG CSM Selection Board per NGR 600–200, chapter 9, the list remains valid until a subsequent listsupersedes it, approximately one year later.c. Soldiers who have not been selected for assignment and promotion and who remain on a list near its expiration,including those with hardships, will be considered in the next board process with a new ranking relative to all otherSoldiers being considered. If not assigned and promoted from the old list before it expires, their sequence on the newlist will be determined solely by their ranking with their contemporaries; they will not be placed at the top of the list.d. Once considered and selected for promotion and assigned to a valid position, per paragraph 7–40, Soldiers arepromotable and may be promoted with an effective date and DOR on the date they are assigned to the valid highergraded position. AGR promotions to MSG and SGM will be promoted effective the date assigned to a valid position,date an AGR control grade is authorized, or if applicable, the date enrolled in USASMA, whichever is later. AGRSoldiers selected and assigned to higher graded positions before the list expires, but are not promoted because a controlgrade is not available, will remain assigned pending availability of a control grade resource. Soldiers are no longerrequired to compete for the position for which selected.e. Soldiers will initiate applications for training through their units using the Army Automated Training ApplicationModule. The following represents the priority of training and the primary means to determine which Soldiers willattend NCOES courses:(1) Soldiers who require NCOES to meet promotion requirement.(2) Soldiers during premobilization.(3) Soldiers upon demobilization.(4) Approved promotion list.f. The list is also used to select eligible Soldiers, in sequence, for assignment to higher graded positions that go withthe promotions per section X of this chapter.7–29. Announcement of promotion selection boardsa. The State MPMO will announce each board using a MOI patterned on figure 7–3, which will include—112 AR 600–8–19 • 20 March 2008