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<p>Soccerguy,</p>
<p>There are tools and there are users. Tools without a knowledgeable user are worthless.</p>
<p>This is not your fault. You aren’t in the system so I wouldn’t have expected better, but there are a few things you did wrong that would result in you getting a result that didn’t match up to mine.</p>
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<li><p>Did you try all locations? I sure as heck didn’t, but I was only speaking in terms of the area of my official residence which is around NYC. BAH between a place like El Paso, TX is radically different than somewhere in Central/North New Jersey.</p></li>
<li><p>All line and paragraphs numbers on a UMR are coded for O-2. O-2 is an automatic promotion 12 months after date of commission on active duty or if you are AGR/ADOS/ADSW in the Guard/Reserves it’s an automatic promotion in 18 months. While all basic branches start off as O1, they advance to O2 relatively soon that I didn’t even consider it that much - it’s only a blink of an eye.</p></li>
<li><p>Many of those I serve with are actually previously enlisted (which they can be if they went SMP during their years in ROTC), so they would fall under O1-E or O2-E.</p></li>
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