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Old 08-14-2007, 09:23 AM   #35 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Shek View Post
Rusty,

Those were different times as far as 2LTs go. It has long been an automatic promotion to 1LT unless you screw something up bigtime. Thus, the saying that "rank among lieutenants is like virtue among whores" - it doesn't exist.
We called that promotion the Fog The Mirror Promotion...i.e., if you were breathing you got promoted.

The way to tell a senior captain from a junior captain? Easy..the senior captain usually has a coffee mug in his hand and a disgruntled look on his face as he is posting on blogs and ticked off that he has already commanded and has to sit in this stupid staff job while the junior captain has all of the fun and is out with the troops in a combat unit.
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