If you're being medically retired and also going before a warrant officer promotion board aren't they supposed to retire at the higher grade?

CW3 Stephen Mills It is a fine point, but you would have to have been selected (not pinned, or actually promoted - selected) for promotion prior to the medical retirement to be retired at the next higher grade. The logic being, but for the medical retirement, you *would* have attained and successfully held that grade.

Ok, I can add more here as responses give you more room to write. This isn't a current situation, its just something I got to thinking about. Back in 2010 I was being medically retired. It was only supposed to take 90 days I was told, but.....My command sent a letter stating they needed me requested it be delayed a year. I was already over 20 as well. I really didn't have an actual problem with this at the time, but. While my medical retirement was approved, but I was on hold I was put in for two medals, both in reference to responding to the Hassan shooting at Ft Hood. Both medals were turned down by my BN commander saying that since I was flagged for medical retirement I couldn't receive a medal. During that year I also came up for promotion to CW4 a few of months before my final out date. I got passed over for promotion. Well recently my command used my picture responding to the Hassan shooting in a recruitment brochure and it has kind of annoyed me since they wouldn't give me a medal since I was medically flagged, but I wouldn't have even been there if they had let me medically retire, and then the whole getting passed over thing has been sticking in my gut and got me to thinking I remembered something about if I came up for promotion while being medically retired I was supposed to get promoted. I know its just a digit on my ID card. I don't care. Right is right and wrong is wrong.

I just went thru the MEB a CPT that was in my briefing was promotable was going to retire as a MAJ.