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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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SFC Kenneth Shell
Every unit has a human resource specialist. These are your soldiers usually found in the orderly room! I was one and if you are looking to get promotions don't go into this MOS!!!! Called my branch manager asking when was my MOS promotion points going to drop from 799 and was told probably never!!! I retired as an E7(promotable) but had to change to another MOS!
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There is nothing wrong with being an e-5 or e-6 at 18 years, look at his awards and decks before judgment, moving up now is so much harder then when I was in, even with earlier role out in 95. Guys were practically running to cbpo to out process, and take a lump sum check rather then wait two more years to retire with 20. Me I wish I had stayed, I would have been sitting pretty. 18 years of honorable service is absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. Honor those who have served, and respect those ahead of you, and one day you will look back and say thank you for all you were given.
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He could have spent time in a national guard unit and been stuck in rank for a period of time
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It has become apparent to me that not only does this PFC have no clue, but some of our fellow SSG and above population are clueless about RCP for an E6. Regardless of component, a SSG can serve 18 years. It is that simple. Just wondering why his leadership did not give him that answer and/or the reason(s) why.
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I flew with a 20+yr USNR LCDR who graduated near the top of his Annapolis class. He and I were flying dead-head back to NAF Washington from NAS Oceana so I asked him who he pissed off... he laughed and said we'd have to turn the plane to Seattle for him to be able to name them all....
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Yeah if you look at 35P right now, they have had like 2 to E-7 in the last 3 years and they keep kicking the can down the road for releasing results. Some years are better than others and some are just terrible strings of years.
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Some MOS are hard for the point to drop to rank up that's why I change my MOS to get my 5 and 6 i was 11M and was hard to get your 5
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Could be reserve or guard; not unusual to retire as a SSG in some of those units; or like myself, he could have decided at age 40 "screw it I'm going back to jumping out of airplanes in the regular army". By the time I medically retired, five years later, I was authorized seven service stripes and still a SSG. It would be very unlikely, now, that anyone in the regular army would have six or seven service stripes as an 11B SSG; I retired in 2013 and they had begun identifying SSGs with over 12 years service for possible seperation.
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