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Commentary | April 10, 2025

Enlisted career advancement: How to prepare for boards and panels

By AJ Pulkkinen, MyCG writer

Your Enlisted Career Advisors from EPM-4 recently teamed up with CSCM Nick Wright of EPM-1 to take on all your questions about boards and panels.
 

The AMA panelists, CSCM Nick Wright, EMCM Jason Sardinas, and MKCS Sal LaMantia, addressed your top concerns: 

  • Common mistakes members make when submitting packages for a board or panel  
  • How derogatory documentation in your record will affect you on a panel 
  • The process of a panel and how it all works, to include look-back period, focuses, and records available to the board or panel. 

So, go check it out. And submit your idea for the next AMA here. What do you want to learn more about? Put us to work for you by telling us what you want to know! 

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