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(NewsNation) — The U.S. Army announced Tuesday that it volition beryllium ending the programme utilized to prime officers for bid roles.
The Command Assessment Program, oregon CAP, was utilized to "facilitate(s) the enactment of battalion and brigade commanders, brigade bid sergeants major, and aesculapian work corps and acquisition corps professionals" done an "in-depth appraisal process," according to Army documents connected CAP.
The program, reminiscent of the NFL combine, enactment candidates done rigorous carnal and intelligence trials, including fittingness tests, intelligence evaluations, adjacent evaluations, written and verbal connection assessments and more.
CAP was initially implemented to trim biases successful the enactment of officers for bid roles by establishing a much holistic enactment process.
The programme volition beryllium replaced by the Centralized Selection system, which was utilized earlier CAP. The Centralized Selection System does not see an in-person review.
The decision of CAP follows Defense Secretary Pete Hagseth's bureau directing a reappraisal of the programme past month.
"Good riddance," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said successful a station connected social media. "Promotions across
@DeptofDefense volition ONLY beryllium based connected merit & performance."
CAP was developed successful 2019 during the archetypal Trump medication arsenic a pilot. It was officially implemented arsenic a imperishable programme successful 2025, close earlier Trump took bureau for his 2nd term.
