Anyone in or that has been in the military in please.

[DSM4Life]

[RotorHead]

ok... trees are good. yea.

i also have 143 credit hours so i better be at least an e4 dont you think?

[CSAR]

ok... trees are good. yea.

i also have 143 credit hours so i better be at least an e4 dont you think?

The highest initial enlisted rank you can have is E3. Depending on the details and guarantees within your enlistment contract, you could be automatically promoted to E4 after graduating from your "A" school. After that, you need time in rank, completion of service-specific personnel advancement requirements, etc., etc., to get promoted up the food chain.

is another way to do it.

[quarry206]

ok... trees are good. yea.

i also have 143 credit hours so i better be at least an e4 dont you think?

I believe that the army is the only branch that will give you E-4 strait off the streets, but you have to have a BA not just the credits.

[CSAR]

I believe that the army is the only branch that will give you E-4 strait off the streets, but you have to have a BA not just the credits.

Really? When did this start up? Damnit, why couldn't they do that back in '96?

[quarry206]

Really? When did this start up? Damnit, why couldn't they do that back in '96?

to be honest I couldn't tell you when it started. I just know I was in basic (spring 2002) with two guys that were SPC (e4) and I asked them how they got it, and they replied they signed up after college but you actually had to have a degree not just over 120 credits.

[<Raven>]

Really? When did this start up? Damnit, why couldn't they do that back in '96?

haha they've been doing it for awhile. I think they did it to promote a little more high speed kids to enlist. Then again, I've seen alot of idiots with degrees. Kinda pisses off NCO's in reception battalions who have been in service for years and are just now E-5's and E-6's to be handing E-4 rank to kids who are wearing marshmallows and still have a fresh baldy