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Originally Posted by jester
And lets not forget special promotions, meritorious promotions and through review boards.
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These are more a thing of the past in the Army. The brigade I'm going to when I leave here just promoted 8 soldiers through "battlefield promotions."
It was a few receiving E-4s, 2 E-5s, and an E-5 to E-6. It looked more like a publicity stunt than anything else.
Brevet ranks, battlefield commissions, all of that stuff...they're really not part of the Army. I've never seen any brevets and I've only heard of one battlefield commission being given (and that was to a Delta operator that wound up in my Career Course class).
Early promotions have special conditions, but even those are standardized to a bureaucratic extent that take the "special" out of the special conditions. Things like "18 months time-in-grade, waiverable to [8/10/12/whatever] months."
However, like I said, I know that one dude...so it does still happen from time to time. As a GM, I don't think I'd allow it unless the player did a
lot of work on his background and I definitely wouldn't use it for an NPC, even one that was meant to stand out. That seems like something that should definitely be reserved for players (but like I said, who've done a
lot of work on their background).