I appreciate all the help from you guys. I talked to the PSG who had the ideas and he wanted me to repost his thoughts. He said he needed a college kid to put into words for him (his words, not mine, haha). This is not quite complete but gives you the idea of where he is coming from. He recently left FT Sill as a DS, retiring soon and wants to send his thoughts up to some higher ups on how things are going at our level. Here it goes again.

Earlier post:

Now we get into how to "fix" the system. We feel that for the NCO side where leadership development has failed and can be saved is the promotion point system and more specifically WLC. Right now a soldier can only receive 8 points for going to WLC, but he can get a total of 300 points for going to a board and "Commanders Points". First of all the curriculum for WLC is severely watered down and tagging it with the title "Warrior" is sickening. We feel that revamping the promotion point system by applying a significant amount of points to WLC and revamping the curriculum would be a great start. Below is a brainstorming session we did on how the curriculum should be changed.
1. WLC should be a requirement to make E5
2. Open WLC up to PFCs and SPC and be screened by CO level Commanders prior to going
3. WLC would become an evaluation that would get soldiers promotion points
4. There would be some permanent party Cadre (Being Cadre for WLC should hold the same weight for senior NCOs as being a Drill SGT or Recruiter). The actual evaluators and other required personnel would come from Post Red Cycle tasking.
5. Evaluated events
- APFT
- Give a PT session
- Written test on Army Physical Fitness
- D&C (Hands on and Written exam)
- Wpns Qual
- Written exam on BRM & ARM
- Crew served (Load Fire Clear) M249, M240B, M2, MK19 (M203), and written exam
- Land NAV (Day, Night, Written Exam)
- CLS skills (written and hands on) (this would imply that students must be CLS prior to going to WLC)
- 3 Day field problem conducting basic fire team size missions (clear a room etc.) (soldiers will be provided by red cycle tasking)
- Developmental counseling and Army Leadership Exams (Leadership exam should include an essay with the topic being a moral dilemma a leader may possibly encounter and how to handle it from a leaders perspective)
- Promotion and Review Board (Staffed by E7s and above)
6. Combine current systems board points (150), WLCs (8) and give a max of 158 points for the course.
7. An overall score of 70% to be a WLC grad
8. Top 1% receives an automatic promotion to E5
9. Top 5% receive automatic promotion to CPL

Some may argue that this caters more towards the infantry, but we argue that these skills are necessary for all soldiers in today’s army. Some may also argue that PFCs and SPCs that could go to WLC may not be ready to SGTs in their branch. That responsibility should lie on the Commander and his NCOs preparing that soldier and training him in his craft prior to being sent to WLC.

We believe that a course like this could be conducted in less than 3 weeks time and would pay big dividends towards selecting the best young NCOs for the Army. We also have some more ideas for BNOC and ANOC (I will not bore you with them at this point).
Some may be concerned that this may affect personnel numbers at the NCO ranks, but we all know that the army adjusts it minimum points for promotion all the time. We do feel that going through WLC however, should be a requirement to make E5.

Thanks for your time.