Can I be denied a promotion for going to my appointments?

By the way, for your next counseling regarding promotion, if they haven't specified why you haven't been given an automatic promotion, write that on your counseling statement, and repeat until you have an answer in writing or the promotion.

If the promotion is with a waiver, they do not have to approve a waiver for you. If you have met time in service and time in grade then they have to do a formal counseling to let you know why. The command would have to deny the automatic promotion and submit paperwork to stop an automatic promotion. If this wasn’t done and you have the time in service and the time in grade for promotion to E4 they would have to promote you with the original effective date. I hope this helps, good luck to you....

If you are going through an MEB, in all odds you are not going to get promoted.