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Originally Posted by Johan Larson
I suppose he could have served as an enlisted man for twenty years and then jumped tracks into the officer corps. But given up-or-out policies in the military, he would have been a very senior NCO. Transferring him to being the most junior of officers seems strange. You'd think if they were going to commission a staff sergeant, they'd make him at least a captain or a major.
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Maybe a long serving veteran of the peacetime army, given a field commission during a war? I wouldn't expect him to remain a 2LT for long, though.