Originally Posted by rickair7777

In truth, the O-7 promotion board would not even be looking that far back. They would be interested in his performance as an O-5 and O-6.

Also if he was still a line officer there would be at least one and probably several aviators on the board. That might not be a requirement for intel though, so my bet would be that nobody in the room was aware of this incident.

It makes more sense to ask why this guy was allowed to stay in the service in any capacity, and why he made O-4. But even that might not be unreasonable...he screwed up big-time, paid a price, and transferred to the staff corps where he doesn't get to touch the hardware. I would have been inclined to at least give the guy a chance as a JO in the reserves.

But the senate can still CANX his promotion, and somebody like McCain might just arrange that...