SSG 13F NCOER Bullets: 6 Examples at Company Fire Support Sergeant Scope
A SSG 13F runs the company fire support team: the FSO’s NCO counterpart, trainer of the platoon FO teams, and the one who makes fires happen when the FSO is elsewhere. This is also the first form with all four box checks, so ¶3-11a starts deciding boxes, not just wording.
// 01What makes a SSG 13F NCOER different
The company FSNCO owns the FIST: platoon FO teams to train and certify, the company fire support plan and target list, rehearsals that either happen or quietly do not, and the digital kit that has to talk to the battalion fires cell every time. The NCOER evidence is certification results across the teams, fire support integration the company commander can feel, and what the FO sergeants became under this NCO.
DA Form 2166-9-2 gives the rater all four boxes, and the fire support field is small enough that senior raters know the peer set personally. Upper-third claims (¶3-11a(3)-(4)) get checked against real names, which is exactly why the bullet needs the evaluation, the score, and the denominator written down.
// 02Tier calibration for a 13F company fire support sergeant
At FIST scope: certified teams and a workable fire support plan for every operation is Met (¶3-11a(2)); teams that measurably improved under training this NCO built is Exceeded (¶3-11a(3)); the top-performing FIST in the task force, or fire support products the battalion adopted, is the Far Exceeded conversation (¶3-11a(4)). Full verbatim text in the tier explainer.
// 03Met-tier SSG 13F bullets
Met: ¶3-11a(2) · Achieves
o produced the fire support plan, target list, and execution matrix for 9 operations; fires integrated and rehearsed in every order
Why this reads as Met: nine complete fire support plans is the FSNCO’s job done every time it was asked. ¶3-11a(2)’s positive impact fits; nothing here moved beyond the standard, and the report should say so honestly.
Met: ¶3-11a(2) · Leads
o supervised 3 platoon FO teams through the fire support certification cycle; all certified on schedule on digital and voice missions
Why this reads as Met: every team certified, on schedule, is enforcing the standard for those in his charge. It is the baseline the battalion FSE expects of every company FSNCO, and it anchors the report at a credible Met.
// 04Exceeded-tier SSG 13F bullets
Exceeded: ¶3-11a(3) · Develops
o built a monthly FIST academy on mission processing and degraded operations; certification first-time GO rate rose 1 of 3 to 3 of 3
Why this reads as Exceeded: a recurring training institution the NCO created, with a certification delta stated in teams. Disciplined initiative taken often plus immediate impact is ¶3-11a(3) in its own words.
Exceeded: ¶3-11a(3) · Intellect
o integrated fires into every simulation training rotation; commander credited it for 30% faster attack tempo at external evaluation
Why this reads as Exceeded: pulling fires into the maneuver training pipeline is initiative beyond the billet, and a commander-attributed tempo change at an evaluated event is immediate impact with a witness. The claim survives because the source is named.
// 05Far Exceeded-tier SSG 13F bullets
Far Exceeded: ¶3-11a(4) · Achieves
o led FIST to top fire support certification average of 4 companies and fastest evaluated mission processing time at the CALFEX
Why this reads as Far Exceeded: two peer-best facts with denominators, on the two measures a fires senior rater cares most about. Best of the upper third (¶3-11a(4)) stops being a claim and becomes arithmetic.
Far Exceeded: ¶3-11a(4) · Develops
o authored battalion FO certification SOP adopted by all 4 FISTs; trained 3 other FSNCOs to run it, both his FO sergeants promoted
Why this reads as Far Exceeded: an artifact the battalion institutionalized, peers trained to sustain it, and named advancement for his subordinate leaders. Enduring effect and the leadership multiplier are both present, which is what separates (4) from a strong (3).
// 06Common mistakes on SSG 13F NCOERs
Reporting the FSO’s plan as the NCO’s. The FSO owns the fire support plan; the FSNCO owns the teams, the rehearsal, and the execution. Bullets that blur that line invite the reader to discount everything else on the page.
Certification results without denominators. “All teams certified” is Met. “Top certification average of 4 companies” is a tier argument. The fires community is small; write the number the senior rater can verify with one phone call.
Ignoring the degraded-operations story. Anyone can process missions when the digital kit works. Training the teams to voice, map, and compass when it does not is the expertise this MOS sells, and it almost never makes the draft.
// 07The 13F bullet BulletForge will not write
Feed the generator a thin company fire support sergeant 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
“ran the FIST flawlessly, fires always on time, commander trusts him completely” · requested tier: Far Exceeded
What BulletForge answers instead of writing it
This input does not support FAR EXCEEDED. Trust is an outcome, not a marker. ¶3-11a(4) wants the certification average against the other FISTs, the evaluated processing time, the SOP the battalion adopted, or the FO sergeants who advanced under this NCO. One of those makes the top box arguable; none of them means the generator writes the honest tier instead. Refusals burn no quota.
// 08Related 13F and SSG pages
- SGT 13F platoon forward observer examples
- SFC 13F battalion fire support NCO examples
- SSG 13B Cannon Crewmember bullets
- SSG NCOER bullets across all MOSs (the rank guide)
These examples are calibrated for the company fire support sergeant lane, but they are still someone else’s numbers. Generate a SSG 13F bullet from your own rating period, graded against the same paragraphs.
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