The rank of sergeant is not a position for learning how to become a leader; no apprenticeship here. While certainly the new sergeant will be developing new skills, strengthening old ones and generally getting better, he is a sergeant and is therefore no less a professional than those grades o...
Pay grades E-1 and E-2 both represent privates in the Army. An E-1 private in the Army is the equivalent of the Navy's seaman recruit or Air Force's airman basic ranks and normally applies to newly enlisted soldiers. Soldiers are eligible for promotion to E-2 as soon as they finish...