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

I met a girl named Janet pham from Chicago. She stated to me airforce given her e6 from college. No rotc or any training. This is the second time I heard anything like this. Didn't think it was true.

Yes, AF Band members don't have the same rules as the rest of us. I knew a 22-year-old MSgt who was in the AF Band years ago. I was pretty pissed off at the time, being a SrA with about the same amount of TIS. Admittedly, it still makes no sense to me now--25 years later. We have members who have put their lives on the line and these individuals who have a job that is just about "pomp and circumstance" make rank like it's nothing.

Bands back in the day went around to up morale. Now where I'm based we have almost no morale and a band ain't gunna help at all. Kinda sad to say but squadron drinking parties raise morale the most events or attempts to raise morale. Heck we have mma fights on base n no one went bc no one cared

If this is a normal practice for band members to start out at E6, then this practice needs to be re-examine and immediately stopped.

I don't believe this is true. Even if she were filling a slot in ANG, there are still minimum TIS and TIG requirements. Not possible.

Wait...This isn't from The Onion or The Duffel Blog? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over?

He'll no and I'm an Army veteran

I knew a WM that made Cpl at 4 1/2 years and somehow picked up Sgt at the 5 mark. She did not go to any meritorious board nor would she say how she picked up E-5 after less than 6 months tig at 4.
She was a hard worker and squared away, but things happen. E-6 in less than 7-8 years is just wrong in my book.

I've never heard of that. But I know of a General who gave step promotions who were on the fat boy program an ineligible for promotion. Read it in Stars and Strips.

As a Lcpl in the Marines, do I, with well more time in service than her, even need to reiterate the importance and responsibilities that come with rank? I know I joined to support and defend this country. For now I may just sit around, but as soon as I do pick up (when I have earned that rank), I will pursue bigger and better things with my career; not sing into a stick and hold onto a rank that is by far not deserved.