Army promotion policies of yesteryear

Here's a Best Defense salute to all the 2nd  LTs
who recently got promoted to 1st LT. You know who you are.

From the Eisenhower Library's oral history of Lt.
Gen. John Leonard:

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" … the law requires you to be examined, and they
examined. My first exam to be a first lieutenant, you went in and saluted.

'Do you want to be a first lieutenant?'

'Yes.'

'Get out.'"

(P. 25)

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