Looks like it is on the way to being fixed...and it needs to be in light of how much we depend on these guys.
Army 1st Lt. Sarah Whittington is missing something on her rank insignia — the other half of her captain’s bars.
Whittington, an Army Reserve emergency room nurse at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, is among an unknown number of reservists and National Guard officers whose promotions are on hold while they are deployed...
The promotion problem stems from a requirement, which applies to both Army Reserve and National Guard troops, for soldiers to be in a position of the higher grade before they can be promoted, National Guard spokesman Maj. Hunt Kerrigan said.
The policy has hung up promotions for mobilized troops unless there is a vacancy within their mobilized unit, Kerrigan said...
Reserve leaders are aware of the problem and have been working to fix it, Collins said.
In fact, Lt. Gen. James R. Helmly, chief of the Army Reserve, ordered in September that all mobilized Army Reserve soldiers be promoted as long as they were qualified and an existing vacancy was available.
“Current Army regulations governing the promotion of (Army Reserve) soldiers were clearly written for peacetime operations. … ” Helmly wrote in a Sept. 13 memo to top Reserve commanders.
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