Posted on Sep 19, 2015
Is it possible to get promoted this quickly in the Air Force? Is this typical for band members?
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So, this girl is 19, 4 months TIS and made Tech. Sgt (E-6) already. Typo? Misprint? Or horrible lapse in judgement?
Has anyone else heard about this?
http://www.usafband.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123449378
Has anyone else heard about this?
http://www.usafband.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123449378
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I served for 7 years, went to school and got a bachelors degree, zero discipline problems my whole time in, and I still only made E4. This makes me mad >:\
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SPC, it was always possible to go audition for one of our service's premier bands and win a spot. Heck, the US Army has four "special bands" that start you as a Staff Sergeant right after you finish basic training. If you win the spot, you get the paycheck that accompanies it. If you don't win the spot, you take the job you can get at the pay assigned to it. That's how employment works universally, I think.
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It is highly rare that anyone gets step promoted this quickly in the AF...and it's happened twice this year. I'm gonna be of the mindset, it's a horrible lapse in judgment to promote to E-6 like this.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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PO1 John Miller
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http://www.usafband.af.mil/questions/topic.asp?id=954
The Army has a similar program. Their band members are promoted to E6 SSG after 4 months in the Army.
http://www.usafband.af.mil/questions/topic.asp?id=954
The Army has a similar program. Their band members are promoted to E6 SSG after 4 months in the Army.
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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.
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Wait...This isn't from The Onion or The Duffel Blog? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over?
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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.
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.
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