SGT 25U NCOER Bullets: 6 Examples at Signal Support NCO Scope
A SGT 25U is the company’s signal NCO: tactical radios, COMSEC, digital mission command systems, and the operators who have to use them all sit on this one desk. The NCOER should carry equipment readiness rates, COMSEC inspection results, and operators trained.
// 01What makes a SGT 25U NCOER different
The company signal NCO is usually a one-NCO shop with a formation-sized customer base. The checkable evidence: communications equipment readiness across every radio and antenna on the property book, COMSEC handled through inspections without a finding, communications exercises validated before every field problem, digital mission command systems operational when the commander needs them, and operators across the company trained to run their own nets. Every claim has a readiness report or inspection result behind it.
At SGT the form is DA Form 2166-9-1 with only two boxes (DA PAM 623-3 ¶3-6a). The calibration below governs sentence strength, in the same ¶3-11a language that decides real boxes from SSG onward, so the habits built here transfer directly.
// 02Tier calibration for a 25U signal support NCO
For a signal shop: equipment ready and COMSEC clean is Met (¶3-11a(2)); readiness rates or operator competence that measurably climbed through this NCO’s programs is Exceeded strength (¶3-11a(3)); a top-of-battalion inspection result or training system other companies adopted reaches Far Exceeded strength (¶3-11a(4)). Verbatim tiers in the explainer.
// 03Met-tier SGT 25U bullets
Met: ¶3-11a(2) · Achieves
o maintained communications equipment readiness above 95% for a 130-Soldier company; 6 field exercises, zero unresolved outages
Why this reads as Met: a company that could always talk is the signal NCO’s duty delivered, ¶3-11a(2)’s positive impact. The rate and the zero are the record; movement against a baseline is what would raise the tier.
Met: ¶3-11a(2) · Character
o managed company COMSEC as hand receipt holder across the rating period; zero discrepancies on 2 higher headquarters inspections
Why this reads as Met: COMSEC discipline is a zero-defect standard, and meeting it under inspection twice is enforcing the standard exactly as ¶3-11a(2) describes. It anchors trust; it does not by itself argue a higher tier.
// 04SGT 25U bullets at Exceeded strength
Exceeded-strength: ¶3-11a(3) · Develops
o built monthly radio operator certification; certified 45 operators, troubleshooting calls to the shop dropped 60% in two quarters
Why this reads at Exceeded strength: a recurring training institution nobody ordered, with a measured second-order effect, the shop’s own workload falling because the formation got competent. Disciplined initiative plus immediate impact, ¶3-11a(3).
Exceeded-strength: ¶3-11a(3) · Achieves
o cut communications exercise validation time from 2 days to 4 hours with pre-configured load sets and rehearsed activation sequence
Why this reads at Exceeded strength: a 2-days-to-4-hours delta on the task that gates every field problem, produced by an artifact this NCO built. The before and after are both on the training calendar, which makes the claim checkable.
// 05SGT 25U bullets at Far Exceeded strength
Far Exceeded-strength: ¶3-11a(4) · Leads
o earned the only commendable COMSEC rating of 6 companies; selected to retrain the other 5 signal shops on his accountability system
Why this reads at Far Exceeded strength: best of 6 with the rating named is best of the upper third in inspection currency, and the retraining selection turns one company’s system into the battalion’s, the enduring effect ¶3-11a(4) asks for.
Far Exceeded-strength: ¶3-11a(4) · Intellect
o designed a retrans site playbook after dead-space failures; battalion adopted it, voice connectivity held on 100% of missions
Why this reads at Far Exceeded strength: diagnosed the recurring failure, built the fix, saw it institutionalized, and the 100% result held after adoption. Immediate impact and enduring effect in one line is the ¶3-11a(4) pairing.
// 06Common mistakes on SGT 25U NCOERs
Invisible-when-it-works syndrome. Communications only get noticed when they fail, so the bullet has to surface the successes as numbers: readiness rates, validation times, inspection results. Silence reads as nothing happened.
Jargon the rater cannot verify. A maneuver rater will not decode equipment nomenclature. Write outcomes: the commander could talk on every net, the exercise validated early, the inspection found nothing.
Treating operator training as a favor. Training the formation’s operators is the highest-leverage thing a signal NCO does, and it is countable: operators certified, calls reduced. Drafts that leave it out sell the job short.
// 07The 25U bullet BulletForge will not write
Feed the generator a thin signal support NCO 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
“keeps the whole company talking, go-to guy for comms, never fails” · requested tier: Far Exceeded strength
What BulletForge answers instead of writing it
This input does not support FAR EXCEEDED strength. “Never fails” is a readiness rate wearing a costume; state the rate. What was the COMSEC inspection result against the other companies? What validation time or operator count moved? Did the battalion adopt anything this NCO built? One checkable ¶3-11a(4) marker or the generator writes the honest tier. The refusal costs no quota.
// 08Related 25U and SGT pages
- SSG 25U battalion signal section NCO examples
- SFC 25U senior signal NCO examples
- SGT 25B Information Technology Specialist bullets
- SGT NCOER bullets across all MOSs (the rank guide)
These examples are calibrated for the signal support NCO lane, but they are still someone else’s numbers. Generate a SGT 25U bullet from your own rating period, graded against the same paragraphs.
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