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Re: "Right to bear arms" (was: OT Science versus religion: Is compromise im

Chuck Stevens

2005-01-11, 3:55 pm

"Joe Zitzelberger" <joe_zitzelberger@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:joe_zitzelberger-E7F3C8.22250510012005@knology.usenetserver.com...

> That applies to enlistment and reenlistment contracts -- officers are
> for life unless the resign their commission.

In the Navy back in the 1960's, as I recall the rule was if you were passed
over three times for promotion you were out of the service; if you were
eligible for promotion and weren't an absolute disaster as an officer and
were lucky you might get a "pre-retirement" pro-forma promotion; if you were
eligible for retirement (20 years?) you could retire; if you weren't yet
eligible for retirement, you were pretty much SOL no matter how much more
time you expected to be in the service. Has that changed?

-Chuck Stevens

-Chuck Stevens

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