How does an E6 have 6 service stripes?

It can also be prior service time too. I have seen a few as SSG and had 16 years which eight of hose year was marine time.

Prior service... that's the only thing I can think of.

Hey PFC, Understand that certain MOS's once you make E6 it becomes a big competition for E7, E8, E9. Other Mos's are short E6's and E7 so cutoff scores for E6 are low, and more slots open for E7. I retired as an E6, what you need to pay attention is the over seas service stripes, I'm sure they were all for going over seas heading towards combat.

Why as a Permanent f'N Casualty are you questioning such things? What Service, Personal and Campaign Ribbons did you see? Are any of them from the Navy or Marine Corps? My guess is prior service.

My thought, break in service, switching MOS, OCS, or he had an MOS with no advancement or didn't want to take a promotion and move

Either he has been busted or his MOS has constraints on promotion. In my opinion, he should be an E-7 or above.

I'm a SSG in the Army National Guard working on my 16th year. For us Guard members you can't get promoted unless there is an open slot to get promoted into and most states aren't given very many slots.

just give it a little more time and you'll figure it out for yourself, just because you probably thought everyone that does 20 is a Sgt Major, it's your imagination lying to you. Why not ask this question to your NCO's, it would be a better question for them.

With so much going on these days, this is the most asinine comment I've read in years!

I happen to know this individual and he was a mechanic prior to switching to a 35M. His main reason was because he was stuck due to promotion points.