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I'm trying to find out what the specific time in grade/service requirements were for each Specialist grade. Like, how much time was he an E4 before he got promoted to SPC5 and so on. Thanks
Well, he never got to Spec-6, I had that wrong. PFC out of basic, promoted to E-4 after radio school and tropo school, and just before sending him to VN, he had under a year in at that point. He was promoted to Spec-5 while they were processing to go home. Said a Sgt he didn't recognize just walked up and said, "Hey, wanna be a Spec-5?" and handed him his paperwork. Said it was probably a desk Sgt. he didn't know, the papers all had his name on them so it wasn't as random as he thought at first.
He was in less than 2 years total at that point, and had spent a little less than a year as an E-4.
Then they sent him back to Ft. Monmouth where, "everybody was a Spec-5. Thought I was gonna get out of KP, no such luck, was pretty mad about that." He separated within the year at that rank.
Sorry, thought he said Spec-6. Would've been more useful for your purposes if so I suspect. Got my dad talking to me about his service though, and that's both rare and appreciated, so thanks