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Originally Posted by Homeslice
Career-ending? Or, probably more accurately, career-limiting?
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Career ending. The guy is a senior captain, he has met all the requirements for major, but I can guarantee you that no promotion board will promote him with a letter of reprimand. He will be passed over 2 times for major and after the 2nd time he will be given a competancy hearing where they will look at his entire career (10-13 years) and make a judgement based on his overall service. Then they will let him know if he is allowed to continue serving in the national guard and reserve. At that point he has 2 chances to be promoted again, if he fails those then he is released from the reserve. So maybe he has 2-3 years in the Active army and another 2-3 years in the USAR or Guard. If he can make it to 18 years total service he will be allowed to do his 20 then be retired or if he doesnt make 18 he will be kicked out completely. The chances of being promoted to major after being passed over the first time is something in the range of 1/300, once he hits the usar of guard the chance goes up to something like 1/5 then drops way down to 1/1000 if you get passed over the 3rd time.
The active army does have certain career performance goals that you have to meet to continue to serve, and as an officer he need to get promoted.