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E7 by 9 years means you did a very good job. Vindman was done. He would have had higher rank had he been better as you and I admit.These are little things that people who have served know but outsiders haven't a clue about.
It's why sometimes when you look at a politician's record, who said he was active-duty, or look at his awards, you can pretty much tell what he or she has done and how good they are at their job while serving. Course any enlisted man knows that officers take courses to pad their promotion resume. They have the minimum requirements for advancement, then there's those that go way beyond the call of duty and volunteer for schools and job classifications. I didn't really start climbing in rank till I volunteered for tough classifications. I made E7 by the time I had 9 years in the Army. I would have had to switch my MOS anyway to get there in my old job, because it maxed out at E6. I advanced quickly because I was filling a slot that most people couldn't or wouldn't fill.
My old classification was 36L, which had a couple of slots working in the White House. I would have been working with that putz Vindman. If I had pulled the stunt he pulled I would have spent time in Leavenworth. I spent only 2 years in the Army but my records proved I had served as a Recruit the job of a SGT Rank of E6 as the Platoon Sgt. I was lucky the CO picked me for that job at the time of severe Cadre shortages to do those jobs. I was not the only one. The other platoon Sgts were all Recruits too. They never told me why we all got chosen. But at my unit in Germany they knew of this. I got fast tracked as a Recruit into being a PFC. And since I did not have the time required for the rank, it was pulled back and nobody mentioned to me of the temporary promotion. I was considered a good enough acting Platoon Sgt that I was picked with another man in the same unit to go to the leadership school at Monterey, CA. There I joined others who also got the same deals. The Army I was in functioned pretty much as a dictatorship over the unit members anyway. Say the CO gave an order!!!! We obeyed. We truly were under an established authority. When an E7 told his men to do this or that, they better do what he told them.
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