It's stupid as is addressing someone as "Chief Select." It screams insecure.I have seen more often than not that officers selected for O6 and above sign emails as (sel) vice current rank. Caught me as obnoxious at first and playing 'me too' with the CPO tradition, but seems to be in vogue. And no, that doesn't mean that you can sign an email as LT (sel) as an Ensign without facing a lot of ridicule.
The difference is that the word “promotable” is said after their current rank, not in conjunction with a future rank. “Captain promotable” is still a CPT. So it minimizes the pretense because 99% of people don’t bother saying the word “promotable” in my limited Joint experience.The Army sees this whole thing differently. They are very quick to identify themselves as promotable (same as select). It caught me off guard at first, but whatever.
Concur . . . . .The difference is that the word “promotable” is said after their current rank, not in conjunction with a future rank. “Captain promotable” is still a CPT. So it minimizes the pretense because 99% of people don’t bother saying the word “promotable” in my limited Joint experience.
It's all stupid.The Army does this better than us by modifying your current rank instead of the rank that you're not yet wearing- which is to say that signing your name as CPT(P) is only slightly less silly than LCDR(sel).
Back in the day this wasn’t a thing in the Navy because we just frocked everyone. Then the other services cried like fucking babies so we pussies out and stopped frocking instead of just telling them to pound sand.
Same reason we started putting rank on the shoulders of our flight suits. Same reason the Marines started putting on name strips and “Marines” on their utilities (but at least they had some intestinal fortitude and said no to rank on bags). Same reason RADM lower half went from wearing 2 stars to 1 star.
It's stupid as is addressing someone as "Chief Select." It screams insecure.
Same reason RADM lower half went from wearing 2 stars to 1 star.
Also, why was there consternation about adding rank to flight suits? This isn't the first time I've heard someone on here complain about it.