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Charmingly unsophisticated |
Thanks. I'm pretty proud of him. Only fly in the ointment is he may go officer in the future.   _______________________________ The artist formerly known as AllenInWV | |||
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Spiritually Imperfect |
Touché. What *is* well done is the fact that both you and your son are WVARNG. Don't see that every day. | |||
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Well done gentlemen, well done! Don't. drink & drive, don't even putt. | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
Army must be different? I was Navy, and there were many First Class (E-6) and CPO (E-7) corpsmen. Matter of fact, we had a SIGforum member (has not posted on the forum for the past five years) who was E-6 -- DocSteve. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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I Deal In Lead |
My brother was Navy, E-5, PO2, Operating Room Technician. He was a medic until he made E5. | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
Not sure if they still do it this way or not, but the Army used to promote to NCO on a points system. So many points for time in service/grade, so many points for awards, so many points for PT scores, etc.... The minimum point score to get to E-5 as a medic back then was pretty much set at 998 out of a possible 1000. I may have those numbers off, but in effect, you needed to be perfect in everything and there had to be a slot available for you to even be considered. It was unattainable for anyone on their first enlistment and I knew one guy who didn't make it until late into his second enlistment (8 years in) and another who didn't get it until 10 years in. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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| I Deal In Lead |
When I was in, in the late 60s, some draftees made E5 before ETSing. It wasn't at all unusual to do it inside of two years depending on your MOS and other circumstances. Advancement was based on job performance and not PT score, time in service/grade (for the most part) or awards. I'm talking about personnel in an Infantry outfit, not other outfits which I have little to no experience with. I was 76Y30, an E5 slot and first got the slot when I was an E2. Needless to say, promotion came quickly. | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss |
And that's the way it should be. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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| Live for today. Tomorrow will cost more  |
One is a Cowan. The other an Eavesdropper. (Let's see who gets it)  suaviter in modo, fortiter in re | |||
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| Charmingly unsophisticated |
Interesting. According to my late father, the name IS Scottish. Supposedly it was originally MacEaughin (pronounced Mack-ow-in). After immigrating to the US at some point the "ma" part got lost, and the spelling got easier. _______________________________ The artist formerly known as AllenInWV | |||
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