| Chuck Stevens 2005-01-11, 8:55 pm |
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"Joe Zitzelberger" <joe_zitzelberger@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:joe_zitzelberger-0F8801.18543611012005@knology.usenetserver.com...
> I don't think that has changed.
>
> But isn't a retired officer is still a commissioned officer on the
> inactive rolls? My knowledge is limited to family members who were
> medical officers, it may be different.
>
> Just recently the Army called up a bunch of old doctors and
> psychiatrists -- I mean 65+ and 70+ old -- retired from active duty in
> the 1970s old -- way past any recent contract signing old.
That could well be, and the higher the rank the more likely that is. I
gather that medical personnel are handled somewhat differently from line
officers; my brother-in-law was Army reserve enlisted, served in the tank
corps in Desert Storm, came back, got his nursing degree, and got
commissioned (IIRC) as a Captain in the Army right off the bat.
I can't think of any case in which a Navy line officer -- as distinct from
Medical, Dental, Nurse, Medical Service, Chaplian (Christian, Jewish and
Muslim), Supply, Civil Engineer and JAG Corps -- Chaplain, Civil
Engineering, Supply, etc. Corps -- might get such a leg up right out of
school.
The earlier a USN or USNR line officer gets passed over for promotion, the
less likely he is to be pulled back in, I'd guess. If a career line officer
gets passed over three times for Lieutenant Commander, that's a really
strong indication that the officers reviewing your performance were Not At
All Pleased, and that virtually nobody was going to bat for you. On the
other hand, it strikes me that being blindsided by getting passed over three
times for LCDR would illustrate exactly the sort of cluelessness that would
have led to being passed over three times for LCDR in the first place!
(As for me, I didn't make it as far as Midshipman Third Class, USN ...
;-( )
-Chuck Stevens
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