The Army will review the use of selection boards to assess senior soldiers for command positions, officials said.

In a memo Thursday, Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll rescinded the official status of the Army Command Assessment Program, or CAP. CAP is a review board system that evaluates command sergeants major, lieutenant colonels, and colonels for command assignments. Those soldiers appear before a selection board of general officers and sitting or former brigade commanders. The boards evaluate a candidate’s suitability for command based on peer reviews, subordinate feedback, and other criteria to determine if they should be recommended for command.

CAP was elevated to an official program of record in a Jan. 13 memo by former Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, just days before the end

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