Posted on Jun 10, 2016
Corps to promote 100 more Marines to gunny this year than planned
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Wow , were they running out because of Afghanistan ? War can take a heavy toll on leadership at times .. this shows our Gunnys don't lead from behind...
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It's good to see promotions being expedited if they're deserved. Experienced way too many promotion "freezes" in my day. Deserving Marines sitting in their rank for years because a given MOS was frozen simply for administrative purposes was highly DE-motivating.
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Cpl Cary Cartter
I was frozen at E-3 for 39 months in the early 80s. That had a lot to do with why I didn't re-up. I was promoted to E-4 2 1/2 months before EAS. The recruiter was hounding me for the last two months of my enlistment; turned out they had frozen the 2531 and 2512 fields for too long and suddenly they weren't going to have enough Communication NCOs to train up.
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