Actually you would be surprised how often when it comes to rank things like commission date, enlistment and even age come into play. Back in the mid 90's I was on a exercise with several other guys who had been boot camp with me, we all had the same dates of rank essentially except for one or two who had come in with stripes already and a sergeant told us to go by age. I thought it was stupid as all hell but it was a way of figuring out who was in charge. Hopefully something like that is rare but the sergeant acted like it has come up before.
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