WHEN YOU DO NOT MAKE THE PROMOTION LIST IN THE MILITARY

Don't work that way anymore....Sequestration is that Blue Falcon.

SSG Warren Swan - Really sad, especially when the military starts asking questions like "Why do we have a true leadership vacuum?"
Well dipshits, if you didn't discharge people based on some mystical list, you may not have that problem. Solution: Grab Ears, pull downward until the popping of head breaking free from rectum can be heard.

PO3 Steven Sherrill - That would be the easy part of it. The reality is no one thought it was going to happen, so no one was prepared when it did. So all the Joes and Janes are on pins and needles hoping they're not on the next list. Speaking in the Army, you come out with this "keeping the best and brightest", but that's a bad smokescreen that the NCO's see through. Get into trouble in your current rank, see ya. Deployed and something wasn't done while home, see ya, we want the youth to have a chance at being promoted, so you run all the NCO's that could mentor them out?
I feel for the military as a whole. No one forced any of us to enlist, and you're "promised" you do a days work, you'll get a days pay, three hots and a cot. You'll be taught, groomed, and promoted based off your abilities. I still see some of that mentoring going on, but I see it HERE on RP which is fine, but what does that say for the caliber of NCO's at the units? I love my Army, but cannot stand how it has been systamaticly taken apart where the blue falcon we're looking for isn't where we thought it was; each and every one of us are the blue falcons trying to save what chance at a career we have left. "I have your six....until it's promotion board, QMP/QSP board time". Wrong answer.

SSG Warren Swan - so much truth. Sad truth.