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June Promotions

gotta_fly

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Anyone else out there looking to put on LT on 1 June and starting to think it might not happen on time? According to my XO the message is usually out by around the 20th of the month, yet there's no sign of it.

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MIDNJAC

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I pinned on LT bars the first of the month following my date of commissioning. So basically 2 weeks late. Then shit got real.....
 

gotta_fly

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Yeah, the first of the month thing is normal, everyone who commissioned in May 08 should be promoting on Friday, but the message is running late.

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MIDNJAC

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I wasn't a may/June grad so I wasn't part of the usna/rotc combo promotion timing, but it was understood for mine that it would be the first of the following month. If yours is late, fair enough, just saying that sounded on time to me
 

CommodoreMid

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Yeah I've been wondering where the hell the message is too. Our command frocked those of us who are in the ROTC/USNA 08 group.
 

CommodoreMid

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We just did it for logistical reasons. We're all coming back from deployment on different dates and then going on POM so there wouldn't be any time to do it until the end of June.
 

robav8r

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Waiting on the message as well - seems odd they would wait until the very last day of the month . . .
 

Gatordev

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I thought it was illegal to frock officers......maybe I have been misinformed though...

Not authorized, yes, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. I was "frocked" to LT a week (maybe more...can't remember) early because all 6 of us were getting underway on 3 different ships. Sometimes it's just easier to pin stuff on than worry about official dates.

I guess it makes up for not pinning on O-4 until a week after I rated it. But any self-respecting O-3 would prolong that as long as possible (as long as you're still getting paid O-4 pay).
 

BACONATOR

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I was a single LT pinner, since I was OCS and my message came out late, like the 1st or 2nd of my promotion month. I was in Iraq at the time, and no one seemed to say a word about doing anything, so on like the 15th of the month, I was tired of wearing my only JG flight suit, and I asked my friend to just do my oath out back on top of the bunker with some black n milds and near-beer. Worked well.

Truth be told, your command will take care of you, especially if it's a big group of promoters. If not, and you're alone and unafraid on det, just get a buddy to do it or just wear the rank.

Just so you know, there are two messages: first is an ALNAV (I think?) showing the "eligible LTJG" list, and the second is a regular message showing the promotion list. The former isn't a formal declaration for promotion, the latter is.
 
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