Eh, that thing's a participation trophy if you were in any time after 9/11. The three medals listed in the article are stuff that pretty much everyone gets, and the rank that they list for him is the Navy medic equivalent of an E-4. If he enlisted in 2012 and was still an E-4 nine years later, pure speculation, but he may have had something in his record that has been fucking him over for promotion up to E-5 and higher, which is a decent pay bump. I'm not familiar with how bad the Navy is about discrimination in performance evaluations, but that could easily be part of it.
At E-4 you're still required to make get a good enough test as well as enough points on an eval. However that doesn't matter if your quotas are shit. Advancement rates are public so you can see differences where they literally just require you to have a pulse (Any of the Nuclear rates making E-4) or if life sucks and everything hates you (Surface Electrician's Mate (Nuclear) E-5)
Also E-4/E-5 is the difference for having a stupid easy time getting a housing allowance or being stuck in a barrack.
Eh, that thing's a participation trophy if you were in any time after 9/11. The three medals listed in the article are stuff that pretty much everyone gets, and the rank that they list for him is the Navy medic equivalent of an E-4. If he enlisted in 2012 and was still an E-4 nine years later, pure speculation, but he may have had something in his record that has been fucking him over for promotion up to E-5 and higher, which is a decent pay bump. I'm not familiar with how bad the Navy is about discrimination in performance evaluations, but that could easily be part of it.
At E-4 you're still required to make get a good enough test as well as enough points on an eval. However that doesn't matter if your quotas are shit. Advancement rates are public so you can see differences where they literally just require you to have a pulse (Any of the Nuclear rates making E-4) or if life sucks and everything hates you (Surface Electrician's Mate (Nuclear) E-5)
Also E-4/E-5 is the difference for having a stupid easy time getting a housing allowance or being stuck in a barrack.