There are some administrative hoops, but I frequently hear stories of soldiers being forced to attend promotion boards, and if they refuse or do poorly, they will probably be barred from reenlistment. Every soldier is a leader or is out. Absurd. In the early 1970’s, I was present when ...
I think Great-Aunt Nan worked a lot of different jobs in her lifetime – I am not entirely certain what some of them were; secretarial positions for certain, possibly up-scale retail sales, a telegraphist in the 1930s, a government job in WWII and an enlistment in the Women’s Auxiliar...
So far as I can remember, that’s an enlistment benefit, not an advancement one– sort of like how people who are already trained in a medical field can get in at a higher starting rank because the military saves on training. As it stands now, those who put getting their job done ...
atthetable2015 What we learned in our kitchen. Be a lady they said.