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Originally Posted by jnthnlllshprd
this post is highly misinformed. Speaking from my experience with the Marine Corps: The more combat oriented your position, the slower your rate of promotion. Recruiters move up the fastest, while infantryman and others like it move up quite slowly. High ranking officers and enlisted men were often mocked for being lazy enough to be spotted for a promotion. My SDI fought 4tours in Iraq, aced the physical fitness, swimming, and marksmanship tests, is HIGHLY decorated, and is still only a Staff Seargent after 10 years of service. Meanwhile, my recruiter was only ever deployed to the gulf of Mexico and was in administration. He is currently a 7-year Gunny.
Also, being an officer requires that you are able to demonstrate ideal physical fitness. Officers are known for lacking this, but in the Corps, our commanding officers were just as beastly as drill instructors, and made Combat Instructors look nasty.
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in the army, combat guys move up a lot faster. some combat guys need only 300+ pts to get promoted to sgt. i'm in the army band and i need 550 pts to hit sgt. a friend of mine is in intelligence and she needs 680 pts to get promoted to sgt. pretty much if you're a recruiter, you get promotion consideration. Army guys rank up a hell of a lot faster than marine guys. i just joined the army and i'll be damned if i'm not a sgt by my third year. high speed guys get it in 2 years
if you want a combat mos, you'll have to be top of the class to get your pick. other than that, you'll get assigned to something. but thats for regular army, i'm not sure about the guard. you'll have to talk to someone from the NG.