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The Baseline officer Longitudinal Data Set (BOLDS) was developed jointly by the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI) and the U.S. Military Academy (USMA) to enable researchers to study the development of leader performance over time. Currently, BOLDS consists of data accumulated on USMA cadets from the Class of 1998. Because no personality inventories were administered to cadets, analog scales were developed to represent the scales of the Assessment of Background and Life Experiences (ABLE) and the NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI). This report examines these empirically derived analog scales to ensure they measure within BOLDS what they were intended to measure. Two replication exercises were performed: (1) rerunning analyses Evans (1997) ran when creating the analog scales and (2) comparing results produced using the analog scales with those that emerged from actual ABLE scales. Results indicate the analogs perform in a manner consistent with previous analyses, suggesting they suffice as veridical,temperament measures and may be used as such in future BOLDS analyses.