How does an E6 have 6 service stripes?

This has to be some kind of joke. There's no way you haven't seen a 6 with that long of a service as as a 42A. It happens all the time. Shit I've seen an E6 with 22 years in before.

I can tell you how sometimes in the messed up world things are not perfect I was E-5 P with 17.5 years of service how well first MOS in the army was taken away disbanded one of the missile sites I was at is a state park in alaska so had to change jobs and career fields all at one time as an E-5 with ten years of service I made it in under 3 years but shortly after they the army started closing missile sites I got hosed on promotion with a lot of other guys becuase are promotion points where 998 and stayed there I had 997 at the time when I should have got promoted but no then they changed the time in grade and time in service rule and pulled form promotion list add a change for my shortage MOS in the engineers to an overage in the supply field , so lets just call it right place wrong time ,

He may have had disicpline rank reduction, UCMJ judicial reduction in rank, none of which reflects on years of service and service ribbons

Lot of people retire as a E-6 not unheard of to see this

SPC Sean O'Hara you asked the question “How does an E6 have 6 service stripes?” There is also one other reason which no one mentioned the most common type of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is called survivors’ guilt once you have worn green tabs on Army greens and someone has died you might not want to be a leader anymore.

As a 24+ year veteran of Active Duty and Army Aviation, a very slow promoting career field, I'm perfectly fine with retiring as a SSH. I loved my job as a mechanic and crew chief on UH 60 Black Hawks and didn't want to get promoted to just a desk and of the hangar.

Yes, I do happen to be very decorated from my time in Desert Shield and Storm, Somalia and Iraqi Freedom.

not actually that uncommon with a variety of reasons for it, First and most simple, as SSG Terry Kemp stated, SSG is the most common of retirement rank, made his 20 and called done, there is no time requirement (up or out) for SSG. 2, prior service with a long break after getting out as something further up the line (E7 - E9) seen that one once, last (but least likely in my opinion) he got a bust and is in his last year or so and being allowed to finish his 20 out because it was not bad enough for a bad chicken, again, I have seen it for a guy that got caught in the situation and had an understanding CoC. Just to name the 3 reasons off the top of my head, maybe more.

SSG McCulley, that's not all I'd like to debate about that traitor. He should get the firing squad. The SGT stripes piss me off the most. My MOS dropped points 1 month before I went to the board and remained at 798 until the day I was med-boarded.

Unless retention has changed, E-6 retire at 20 years. 18<20 so there you go.

prior service?