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5. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge

Fri Jun 5, 2026, 05:01 PM

5 hrs ago

Wow.

About the sergeant thing - would you know what criteria would be considered in awarding a higher than usual rank?

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Graham Platner Form DD 214 [View all] orangecrush 7 hrs ago OP

His middle name is Cunningham!? mr715 7 hrs ago #1

... orangecrush 7 hrs ago #2

Lots of medals/awards though. Wow. AloeVera 6 hrs ago #3

It's not all that impressive if you know what you're looking at jmowreader 5 hrs ago #4

Thank you for sharing all your knowledge AloeVera 5 hrs ago #5

The Marines promote based on merit and vacancy jmowreader 4 hrs ago #6

Thank you again! AloeVera 55 min ago #10

OK, but i was in th USAF MineralMan 4 hrs ago #8

Thank you for your post orangecrush 3 hrs ago #9

Dubya never released his discharge papers. Norrrm 4 hrs ago #7