CPT OER Writing Guide

The CPT OER evaluates company commanders and senior staff officers. This is one of the most pivotal evaluations in a commissioned officer's career — command performance directly shapes promotion and future assignments.

Typical duties:

Company commander responsible for 100-200 Soldiers across multiple platoons

Manages company training strategy and aligns with battalion METL

Accountable for equipment valued at $10M+ and manages company budget

Leads organizational-level planning and executes complex operations

Develops platoon leaders, XO, and First Sergeant as a cohesive leadership team

Represents the company at battalion and brigade-level planning events

Example bullets:

o commanded a 150-Soldier company through a nine-month deployment, achieving 100% mission accomplishment with zero preventable losses

o managed a $12M company property book with zero losses at both the internal and external command supply discipline inspections

o developed a training strategy that raised the company’s weapons qualification rate from 82% to 98%

o built a cohesive command team with the XO and first sergeant that sustained readiness through two changes of platoon leadership

o led company-level planning for a battalion field training exercise involving over 500 Soldiers

o represented the company at brigade-level planning events, securing additional training resources for a critical gunnery cycle

o managed talent across the company, developing four platoon leaders and two platoon sergeants for follow-on key developmental positions

o improved the company’s retention rate to 94%, the highest in the battalion, through deliberate talent management