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While not specified in the DOPMA, Department of Defense policy established targets for selection to the next grade as a percentage from the surviving cohort. [9] Desired promotion rates and reporting requirements of service board results are regularly published by Department of Defense. [10] Current promotion guidelines are as follows: [11]
This promotion does not involve a promotion board and does not require the soldier meet time in service or time in grade requirements. Soldiers given a field promotion from corporal to sergeant must complete the Basic Leader Course or BLC. A sergeant field promoted to staff sergeant must complete the Advanced Leader Course (ALC).
As Army chief of staff when the Officer Personnel Act was drafted in 1947, Eisenhower had never expected time in a two-star grade to force a three- or four-star general to retire, and told his successor as chief of staff, J. Lawton Collins, "What was actually intended was that promotion to 3 or 4-star grade would remove any compulsion for ...
Authorized permanent grade of general or admiral and full active-duty pay and allowances in retirement for officers serving in the temporary grade of: general since March 29, 1945, who successfully commanded an army group composed of as many as four armies in the field against the enemy from August 1, 1944, to August 15, 1945 (Omar N. Bradley);
The rule change went into effect on February 10. Macke had served less than two years as a four-star admiral and the three-year time-in-grade requirement could not be waived while he was under investigation, so he reverted to rear admiral and retired on April 1, 60 days after leaving his four-star post. [87]
The promotion would be noted in the officer's title (for example, "Bvt. Maj. Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain" or "Bvt. Col. Arthur MacArthur"). It is not to be confused with a Brevet d'état-major in Francophone European military circles, where it is an award, nor should it be confused with temporary commissions.
An acting rank is a designation that allows a soldier to assume a military rank—usually higher and usually temporary. They may assume that rank either with or without the pay and allowances appropriate to that grade, depending on the nature of the acting promotion. An acting officer may be ordered back to the previous grade.
In the United States military, frocking is the practice of a commissioned or non-commissioned officer selected for promotion wearing the insignia of the higher grade before the official date of promotion (the "date of rank"). An officer who has been selected for promotion may be authorized to "frock" to the next grade. [1]