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I'm just confused here. How does a SSG have 6 service stripes, that would mean he has been in for 18 plus years since each stripe represents 3 years of service. Any ideas?
Thank you,
PFC O'Hara
Thank you,
PFC O'Hara
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I know an E-6 from the 82nd who's been in 17 going in 18 years. He's one of the lucky ones who the Army just said, "well let you retire."
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He could have been the same as me. Wasn't interested in getting promoted after I got in trouble early in my career and watched what some of my leaders was doing to promote others as well as themselves. I finally put on SGT just before 12 years in and missed putting on SSG by phase 2 ALC which would have put me at just under 15 years. Now I'm coming up on 17 years in the reserves and just pinned SSG last November. There's always a reason and everyone in the military isn't always chasing the next rank. Some of us spend time in the same rank until we feel we're ready to move on or Uncle Sam says you waited to long as was the case for me (waited to long to join the core and didn't have much wiggle room to progress to be safe of RCP) without any regrets.
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