Originally Posted by
LivingInMEM
This doesn't fly in the Air Guard, are you kidding??? The promotions in the Air Guard are ALL about politics, just get your buddy to put you in a billet and you get the rank. Even if someone in the Air Guard is on the out, a regime change is all it takes to get back on the fast track. The AD AF is not much better. The last O-6 board had a 45% or so promotion rate.
This isn't about the fact that the reserves let him get ahead, because his reserve performance measured independently is probably above average. The big Navy let him get away from this incident with no formal punishment; NJP, an Article 15, or not even a FNAEB (we don't even know if it made his FITREP); so it was completely legit from the reserve point of view to hire and promote him. Why should the reserves punish him after the fact if his chain of command at the time did not? Had there been any of these, he likely would't have been promoted, even in the reserves since they use a board system (unlike the Air Guard).
For the record, I don't think he should have gone unscathed, but put the blame where it belongs; his command at the time of the incident.
Look, everything is who you know....I don't care what industry, or branch of service. I just know of officers in the ANG who have been whacked for lesser offenses. If I am not mistaken, a general officer within the last few years as well. A near fratricide in peacetime just getting swept under the rug, though?? But we must also think in terms of context.. I know the ANG has has changed a lot since the 80's, and I am sure all services have. So the attitudes of senior leadership and the application of punishment in the Navy is very likely be different than it was thirty years ago.
Again not meant to be a service battle, I am just not in the other services.