Is it possible to get promoted this quickly in the Air Force? Is this typical for band members?

It's a horrible lapse in judgment. Who cares if the AF has "great vocalists"? Really, if you need someone competent to sing the National Anthem, you can find them out there, for pay, as a consultant, on an as-needed basis, and without incurring the full-time pay, benefits, housing, feeding, uniform cost, and eventual lifetime retirement and TRICARE costs.

My family of masonic tradition to age of fourteen I enroling in varius university , with a thesi in miltary sciences then rewitten, sold in bookstore, I server in CIA in 1970 -1979, six years of wars, my father Joseph Gen. In Air Force , my great-grandmother Grimaldi was a great-grandson of President John Adams

It was given to her only because she became a band member, but it irked me that she didn't earn it like the rest of us earning our ranks while we served many years in the military.

This is very typical and it's only for the pay. AF band members won't get promoted until they reached the necessary TIS requirements as well as the PME requirement. It's just like the medical. Some Dr's come in as LtCol because of their specialty.

There may be a special provision that allows such special promotions in a career field that positively promotes the USAF in such a light. I do not know. In the NYANG, I have seen Airmen with 10 years service put on MSgt. But 4 months TIS putting on TSgt? Never before seen by myself. If the USAF equates a college degree or real life experience to that of awarding E-6, there you go...... Still new to me...

I'm happy for her promotion. Obviously it is due to her status in the band. Certain AFSC's/MOS's or ratings in the various services allow for this as well as certain special duties. Regardless of that fact we need to support talented individuals who represent the Air Force well. Do some of the comments from bitter career troops who mark time for retirement truly represent Air Force core values?

Yes. It absolutely is. This person is a member of the elite band out of Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, DC. The official Air Force Band. There is only one of these, and they recruit the best of the best. The people who are recruited into this band are world-class professional musicians who would not join the military without the monetary incentive to do so. I'm talking about Broadway singers, Symphony orchestra members, etc. Really talented people who could make LOTS more money outside of the military. The elite band performs at high level functions like presidential inaugurations, diplomatic visits, etc. That is why the rank is what it is. She is not a typical NCO.

Not a knock on females but I had a female NCO that just studied and tested all the time. She had no working knowledge of repair and she was placed in the Motor pool. All she cared about was rank.

She bring positive image to the Air Force. Hell is they sold albums I'd buy them so...... if the they could make money off of her voice, she should get compensated for it. Just my opinion

Military bands are a tradition that has been held. Staring with the drums and bugles. However, you take two soldiers side by side walking down a military post street both the same rank and you ask a question. Both are E-6, one will be able to answer the other does not have the experience or training to answer.

I believe rank is supposed to be dependent on experience. If the 19 year old knows about the military ins and outs and has the equivalent knowledge of someone who has been in a while then E-6 her. If not then train, educate, experience, then promote.