Boo-hoo. The Big Green Weenie.
I know every fat shitbag has the same story. They fucked me.
Everything was going great until coming back from my first deployment.
Platoon leadership pencil whipped an ACFT with all 60s and sent us home.
Squad leader at the next unit didn't know how to build a packet, all he knew was how to slap an ACFT on a blank packet and submit that.
Looked it up myself and learned what iPerms is. Talked to S-1 and they turned me down for my awards and civilian education. "It isn't necessary" she said. "You don't need points." "Everybody is getting promoted." Well guess what.
In the mean time, a couple of NCOs who never deployed decided to get tough with me. I don't take that shit, so I called them out. They waited for me outside the latrine with a knife.
Some other kid SHARP'd me. Reported that asshole. Company had to cover their ass, so they "promoted me" into another unit a million miles away.
But they didn't. They never completed the transfer. I was stuck between two units for almost a year, with both telling me that I belonged to the other. In the mean time, my clearance expired. So I was flagged.
Except that nobody would tell me WHY I was flagged, only THAT I was flagged, and that it was "probably" my clearance expiring. No definitive answer.
I'm still fucking flagged. Even if I got unflagged today and was green across the board tomorrow, they wouldn't promote me because my ETS date is too soon.
Fuck me.