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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?
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PFC O'Hara
Thank you,
PFC O'Hara
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He probably hasn't made the E7 promotion board or he has been demoted in rank
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Or he made E7 then made E6 again b/c of certain issuse? Then some times the points are just to high. Or maybe he just did want to be promted. It has been knoow to happen.
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If you are a SFC you don't make SSG again. You make civilian if anything was serious enough to reduce you.
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Until very recently, the Retention Control Point (RCP) for Staff Sergeants was 20 years. It has recently been lowered to 18 years. So that SSG is likely 100% legitimate, but now should either be promoted or RCPed out.
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Also, Soldiers with 18 or more years reach sanctuary, whether active or reserves. Not 18 1/2 yrs.
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It is called the Enlisted Sanctuary Program. You can find this AND RCP message on HRC.
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MSG (Join to see) - Until I can find the MILPER that I am thinking of, I will defer to you.
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AR 601-280, table 3-1. dtd 1 April 2016, effective 1 May 2016. You can google it and then you can read it. It is called The Army Retention Program and covers all things retention; to include current retention control points.
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Wow, during my service you were lucky to get promoted at all.. no slots available.. tons of people with years in service with low rank. Now I see service members with low years and high rank. Even though I stayed number one for promotion in my field, the points never dropped. I was a 13+ year E-5. Now for some crazy sense of entitlement, some think the next grade should be pinned on at min TIS / TIG. Saw many many people put out just based on max years reached without promotion.. Then in 94 / 95 they did a wholesale dump of as many of us they could.
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I Retired as a miltech and I was in for 32yrs till mandatory retirement, promotions are slow and you do have to pace yourself or you'll find the army has now were to put you because you advanced to fast such as (E-9) and if they put you out you lose your civil service job.
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I was on active duty for 10 yrs an was medically discharged from active duty into the national guard an finished 13 yrs in the guard in different mos so I had 6 service stripes.
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I had a buck sergeant for a squad leader with 22 years of service back in 1992. When I became a squad leader and got my E-6 strips in 1996 I had a platoon sergeant with E-6 strips too. He has been demoted twice before for fighting. It can happen. It certainly happened a lot more before the force reduction program of the mid nineties.
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He has just been in that long and it's very hard for him to make E7. He is probably an E6-P and has been in long enough to fall under the grandfather clause
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I retired at 23 as an E-6... wasn't an E-6(P). I was grandfathered. When I retired, 30 days after my retirement was official, my name was #5 on the E-7 list. 23 years means that I had 7 service stripes. The picture looks like right outside the theater on Goodfellow AFB, and appears to be right after AIT Graduation, so it is possible that he is an AIT instructor. Since it is the new ASU and not the old Army Class A Uniform, there is no unit patch to go by. It is definitely a graduation of some sort, but location can be debated. If I am right, then he is either a 35N or a 35P, both of which can be very hard to advance, but having an Instructor assignment will most likely guarantee an advancement in rank.
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