Hey everybody Congratulate LANMAN!!

[OutHouse]

He just got promoted to TSgt (E-6) in the Air Force.

Spelling congratulate wrong bugs the heck out of me.

AnandTech spelling Moderator


EDIT: Corrected before the spelling mod gives me a vacation.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: Citrix
He just got promoted to TSgt (E-6) in the Air Force.

Is he Top Gun now?

 

[xSauronx]

mind tellin us exactly how good this is? is it like:

"congrats :roll:"

or

"congrats, lets go watch some strippers and then get a special massage with a happy ending"
???

 

[UltraQuiet]

Originally posted by: Citrix
He just got promoted to TSgt (E-6) in the Air Force.

Congratulations Lanman. Well done.

Chief


Edit: How many years does he have in? I'm always curious about how fast the other services promote.

 

[OutHouse]

He has 14 years i believe. He did 10 Active Duty and the last 4 have been in the guard. We both got out as E-5's

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: DaveSohmer

Originally posted by: Citrix
He just got promoted to TSgt (E-6) in the Air Force.

Congratulations Lanman. Well done.

Chief


Edit: How many years does he have in? I'm always curious about how fast the other services promote.

Dave -
Do you think that there is a big variance among services? I always thought it had more to do with the individual unit, and right place at the right time, than the particular service.
I made E-5 in well under 2 years, but I was cadre in an Evac Hospital that filled out its TO&E rather quickly in 1965, more or less pushing me up the ladder.

LANMAN - Congratulations and thanks!!

 

[deerslayer]

Congrats LANMAN!!!!

 

[Evadman]

Congrats LANMAN!!

 

[muttley]

It depends on which branch of the service. What you MOS (job) is. How clean you keep your nose. Also on your age. If you join when your 30 you sort of get the gold ol boy treatment as that you need promoted more quickley if you do your studying for your rank advancement, and if you keep your nose clean and arn't putting beer in you big coat to have more than allowed. Also if you came into the service with a technician degree or come college you would get an automatic bump in position.
So in some cases you could make in the army an E-5 in 2 years or sargent and that is as low as you could get busted if you did get a higher rank.
If you were young and dumb and chose a poor MOS got fat or whatever etc you could take a long time to gain any rank.

 

[amdskip]

Congrats LANMAN

 

[Bushwicktrini]

Congrats Lanman

As for the diff advancement rates I know in the Navy that it goes by Job. each job goes diff as people leave diff jobs at diff times in the navy. IE A boiler tech (like me) is only in for about 3 1/2 years on average so you can make up to E-5 in like 2-5 years and some have made E-7 in 9. But a Sonar tech who stay in longer will take longer to get advanced and some jobs like Fire control techs come into the fleet as E-4 and leave after 6 years as E-4

 

[mk]

Congrats LANMAN!

 

[MichaelD]

Hmm. OK...anytime you get a promotion is cause for celebration. But you two are Guard, right? AD Guard or Inactive Guard? Big diff, there.

 

[dquan97]

Yay! Where's the party?

 

[UltraQuiet]

Originally posted by: Cyberian

Originally posted by: DaveSohmer

Originally posted by: Citrix
He just got promoted to TSgt (E-6) in the Air Force.

Congratulations Lanman. Well done.

Chief


Edit: How many years does he have in? I'm always curious about how fast the other services promote.

Dave -
Do you think that there is a big variance among services? I always thought it had more to do with the individual unit, and right place at the right time, than the particular service.
I made E-5 in well under 2 years, but I was cadre in an Evac Hospital that filled out its TO&E rather quickly in 1965, more or less pushing me up the ladder.

LANMAN - Congratulations and thanks!!

I don't know if there's a big difference in the services or not. You just sometimes hear guys say this service or that service promotes faster than the others. The Navy takes a test all the way through Chief and it's possible to advance very quickly if there's openings in your rating. It was just curiousity.


Chief

 

[ROTC1983]

Originally posted by: LyNx01
Congrats LANMAN!!!!

 

[bmacd]

Originally posted by: amdskip
Congrats LANMAN

-=bmacd=-

 

[LANMAN]

Thanks EVERYONE!!

Wow what a thread!! I didn't expect this until Citrix PM'd me.


It's been a long time to say the least! I've had some really rough bumps in my career, all starting with my first supervisor pencil whipping my first EPR, but for me this is a HUGE milestone!!

THANKS EVERYONE!!!

--LANMAN

 

[Baldy18]

Congrats LANMAN!

 

[Blieb]

Originally posted by: Baldy18
Congrats LANMAN!

 

[nagger]

Congrats LANMAN

 

[OutHouse]

^

 

[Confused]

Congrats to a great TeAm mate


Great work


Garry

 

[blakeatwork]

Originally posted by: muttley
It depends on which branch of the service. What you MOS (job) is. How clean you keep your nose. Also on your age. If you join when your 30 you sort of get the gold ol boy treatment as that you need promoted more quickley if you do your studying for your rank advancement, and if you keep your nose clean and arn't putting beer in you big coat to have more than allowed. Also if you came into the service with a technician degree or come college you would get an automatic bump in position.
So in some cases you could make in the army an E-5 in 2 years or sargent and that is as low as you could get busted if you did get a higher rank.
If you were young and dumb and chose a poor MOS got fat or whatever etc you could take a long time to gain any rank.

WTH did you just say ?????


OH, and congrats LANMAN!!

 

[dmcowen674]

Congrats Lanman, great TeAmmate and Patriot