Enlisted Promotions woes, 2001

The NCO Guide by CSM (Ret.) Dan Elder

Sep 24, 2015Government & Organizations

The only lesson of history is that men never learn anything from history. -George Hegel. This is a reprint of my Winter 2000-2001 article on the state of affairs concerning proposed changes to the semi-centralized promo...

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