SGT 19D NCOER Bullets: 6 Examples at Scout Team Leader Scope

2026-08-25 • Cavalry Scout · DA Form 2166-9-1 • 6 min read

A SGT 19D leads a scout team: the eyes forward, whether that is a dismounted observation post or the senior scout on a truck. The NCOER evidence is reporting quality, reconnaissance tasks executed to standard, and a team trained to see without being seen.

// 01What makes a SGT 19D NCOER different

Scout work is graded on what higher actually received: accurate, timely reports. A scout team leader’s NCOER gets strong when it counts the things the squadron can verify, reconnaissance and surveillance tasks passed at external evaluation, observation post hours with reports logged, calls for fire certified, crew or team qualification results, and Soldiers cross-trained on optics, comms, and reporting formats.

The SGT form, DA Form 2166-9-1, carries only the two-box scale (DA PAM 623-3 ¶3-6a), so tier language at this grade shapes the bullet, not the box. The habits matter now because the four-box form arrives with the section leader job, and the ¶3-11a calibration is identical.

// 02Tier calibration for a 19D scout team leader

For a scout team: tasks to standard and clean reporting is Met (¶3-11a(2)); reporting speed or reconnaissance results that measurably improved through the team leader’s own training plan is Exceeded strength (¶3-11a(3)); peer-best evaluation results or team methods the troop adopted reach Far Exceeded strength (¶3-11a(4)). Verbatim tiers in the explainer.

// 03Met-tier SGT 19D bullets

Met: ¶3-11a(2) · Achieves

o led 4-Soldier scout team through 6 reconnaissance and security missions; every named area of interest reported to standard

Why this reads as Met: full coverage and standard reporting across the year is the scout team’s duty done properly, ¶3-11a(2)’s positive impact. It anchors the report; the differentiators have to come from deltas and denominators.

Met: ¶3-11a(2) · Presence

o maintained team fieldcraft and fitness through 40 plus days of dismounted operations; zero heat, cold, or movement injuries

Why this reads as Met: keeping a team healthy and field-capable through hard conditions is enforcement of standards, the ¶3-11a(2) baseline. It is worth a line precisely because it is checkable and true.

// 04SGT 19D bullets at Exceeded strength

Exceeded-strength: ¶3-11a(3) · Develops

o certified 3 team members on call for fire and long-range reporting; every report at squadron lane evaluation accurate and on time

Why this reads at Exceeded strength: cross-certifying an entire team is disciplined initiative beyond the assigned duty, and an external evaluation grading every report accurate is the immediate impact, both ¶3-11a(3) markers with the evaluator as witness.

Exceeded-strength: ¶3-11a(3) · Achieves

o cut observation post occupation and camouflage time 30% by drilling site selection; undetected on all 4 evaluated iterations

Why this reads at Exceeded strength: a timed delta on the core survival skill of the MOS, proven by four evaluated iterations without compromise. The repetition supplies the often of ¶3-11a(3); the stopwatch supplies the proof.

// 05SGT 19D bullets at Far Exceeded strength

Far Exceeded-strength: ¶3-11a(4) · Leads

o led top-rated scout team of 12 at the external evaluation; selected to establish the priority OP for the squadron main effort

Why this reads at Far Exceeded strength: best of 12 with the denominator is ¶3-11a(4)’s best of the upper third made checkable, and being handed the priority OP is the squadron acting on that ranking in mission terms.

Far Exceeded-strength: ¶3-11a(4) · Intellect

o built reporting quick-reference drill after garbled spot reports cost a target; adopted by 6 teams, accuracy 100% at next evaluation

Why this reads at Far Exceeded strength: a diagnosed failure, a built fix, adoption across the troop, and a measured result at the next external gate. The troop-wide adoption is the enduring effect that lifts this above a strong ¶3-11a(3).

// 06Common mistakes on SGT 19D NCOERs

Writing infantry bullets in a scout report. Scouts are graded on reconnaissance: what the team saw, reported, and enabled. Bullets about assaulting objectives read as a team leader who does not know his troop’s mission, and cavalry senior raters notice first.

Unreported observation hours. A hundred OP hours with no mention of the reports produced is a camping trip on paper. Count the reports, name the evaluation that graded them, and the hours become evidence.

Ignoring the two-box reality. There is no Exceeded box on the SGT form. The move is to bank Exceeded-strength facts in Met blocks, deltas, denominators, evaluation names, so the record is ready when the four-box form arrives at SSG.

// 07The 19D bullet BulletForge will not write

Feed the generator a thin scout team leader input and ask for the top tier, and it refuses instead of inflating. The refusal names what is missing and burns no quota.

The input a rater actually types

“squared away scout, owns the OP, best eyes in the troop” · requested tier: Far Exceeded strength

What BulletForge answers instead of writing it

This input does not support FAR EXCEEDED strength. “Best eyes in the troop” needs the squadron’s arithmetic: top team of how many at which evaluation? What happened to report accuracy or OP setup times? What did the team build that other teams now use? One ¶3-11a(4) marker makes it arguable; without one, the generator writes the honest tier and the refusal costs no quota.

// 08Related 19D and SGT pages

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