Dazed and Confused: How Marine Corps Promotion Boards Keep Getting It Wrong

The Marine Corps promotion system allocates only approximately 12 minutes of board attention to evaluate a service member's entire 20-year career, a process the article argues is insufficient for making fair institutional assessments. The article compares this compressed timeframe to condensing the NFL Scouting Combine's seven primary drills into a single 12-minute evaluation window without comprehensive file review or interviews.