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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calico_Jack73" data-source="post: 1505963" data-attributes="member: 14403">It is kind of abstract.  Until you get to E-7 making rank is a test of a person's knowledge of their job and military protocol.  Also figured into the formula are points for particular medals as well as the person's Enlisted Performance Reports.  The more knowledgable person should be the one that has been in the longest because the military has sent them to more training classes, they've got more experience with the protocols, and they've also been to more places to win more awards and decorations that grant points.  However, I've seen E-3's and E-4's who knew more about their jobs than anyone else on base.  When I was stationed at Tinker AFB we had an E-3 who at night would go teach an advanced networking class at the local community college and NOBODY knew more than him.  It really comes down to where you've applied yourself throughout your whole life.  He was already well versed in networking before he came in.  Tech school was a joke to him.  That is why Twilight:2000 was so great, the character creation system modelled the whole thing perfectly.  That's probably why I gave up trying to do a d20 Twilight:2000 game (at least until QLI comes out with the new d20 version) and just bought an old copy of the game on E-Bay.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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