Temporary NCO promotions to end for most Army enlisted troops

Yup.

More promotion vacancies available than school seats available every year.

SGM (Join to see) - and that isn't likely to change, so instead of giving a "temporary" promotion to someone who can't get a class date, we will continue having soldiers perform the duties of a higher grade without recognition.

MSG Thomas Currie --or the pay they deserve for the job.

MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. - We didn't have temporary enlisted promotions back in my day, but I did spend a bit over two years as an "Acting Sergeant." At least I wasn't being shorted on the pay because I was a SP5 at the time.

In there infinite wisdom, Armor Branch had set up a structure where the positions on a tank crew were one PFC loader, one SP5 driver, one SP5 gunner, and the tank commander was an SSG unless he was the SFC platoon sergeant or 1LT platoon leader. The only SP4 slot for a tank crewman was as the CO's jeep driver (although apparently there were some SP4 slots for an 11E as an Ammunition Specialist at an ammo dump somewhere that no one ever saw. The only way for a tank crewman to be a SGT was if the unit slotted him in one of the E6 tank commander slots.

In our tank company with 34 SP5 slots we had 5 SP5's -- the unit made all of us Acting Sergeants. It didn't have anything to do with being in SSG slots, the only thing the unit was concerned about was an outdated Division policy preventing Specialists from being Charge of Quarters, Sergeant of the Guard, and Staff Duty NCOs.