Developing and Using the NCOER Support Form (same process for OER SPT Form): How and Why

Counseling for Officers and NCOs is supposed to take place on the support form; however I have found there is confusion about how to use the support form, how it’s developed, etc.

The attached PowerPoint class describes how and why to utilize the NCOER Support form when counseling your NCOs, and how to develop the performance objectives in order to ensure your NCOs know what standard they are trying to meet. NOTE: All of the same rules, actions, and reasons apply to OER support forms as well.

The class will break down HOW to fill out the meat of the form (Parts III through V), and WHY it’s important to counsel your NCOs using it.  This particular PowerPoint is designed with the NEW NCOER support form (2166-9-1A) in mind, however could be used as a guide to develop the older form (2166-8-1), as well as the OER Support Form (67-9-1; with a few minor tweaks).

It will also explain why you as a leader should use the NCOER Support Form (in addition to DA Form 4856s) to do so.

<strong>Background</strong>: In discussing the revisions that are coming to the NCOERs and NCOER Support Forms with my Platoon NCOs, I realized that many NCOs (to include my own Platoon NCOs, and many more officers) do not know how to utilize the NCOER Support Form, why using it is important, and how using it makes the NCOER process easier.

Please take a look.  If you have suggested additions, questions, corrections, or problems concerning the information contained in it, please feel free to forward them to me at: Brock.j.young.mil@mail.mil

I hope this can be of use.