CAP Promotion advantages

[nmkaufman0]

If a CAP Cadet earns C/2LT, he or she can get promoted to the E-3 pay grade if he or she were to enlist in the Air Force. Do Cadet officers have the same promotion advantages in the other 4 branches of the Armed Forces?

[MIKE]

No, not all services offer E-3 for the Mitchell award.  The Army offers E-2 for example.

[Майор Хаткевич]

CG is E-3.

[GroundHawg]

If a CAP Cadet earns C/2LT, he or she can get promoted to the E-3 pay grade if he or she were to enlist in the Air Force. Do Cadet officers have the same promotion advantages in the other 4 branches of the Armed Forces?

There are five armed services and seven uniformed services.

[Майор Хаткевич]

If a CAP Cadet earns C/2LT, he or she can get promoted to the E-3 pay grade if he or she were to enlist in the Air Force. Do Cadet officers have the same promotion advantages in the other 4 branches of the Armed Forces?

There are five armed services and seven uniformed services.

He did say other 4.

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

I don't think the Marines recognise our cadet achievements at all - can anyone confirm/deny?

[a2capt]

It boils down to what you get at the time you sign. We've had some cadets get something, others not, being on a Marine base, we get prior cadet Marines in, too, and they say the same thing.

[MSG Mac]

This is definitely something that the cadet must ask about when he/she visits the recruiter(s). If the advanced grade is available, make sure that it's written into the contract. Visit more than one branch, so that you can tell the recruiter what the other services are offering.

[LSThiker]

Exactly.  For the Army, there is a lot of leeway in the ranks E-2 and E-3.  Even though the Mitchell gets E-2, I have seen a number of former Mitchell Cadets, including me, get E-3 in the Army.

[abdsp51]

I guess I had it easy as I was both a JROTC cadet and a CAP cadet.  I had every branch offering me advanced grade based on those two certificates alone.  Each one offered me advanced grade of E3 starting.  Of course that was back in 1999 but hey times change. 

[LSThiker]

I guess I had it easy as I was both a JROTC cadet and a CAP cadet.  I had every branch offering me advanced grade based on those two certificates alone.  Each one offered me advanced grade of E3 starting.  Of course that was back in 1999 but hey times change.

Some minor things have changed but not much over the years.  I remember the NG was offering the advanced rank for recruiting people back in the late 90s and early 2000.  It was like 1 person in you get E-2, two people in you get E-3.  Not sure if it still exists today, but I am sure similar programs are around.  Of course at that time there were no Rep63 training programs that you see today.

[Noble Six]

When I enlisted the Marines did recognize my Mitchell award and gave me contract PFC E-2.  But maybe I was lucky and had a good recruiter.

[GroundHawg]

Exactly.  For the Army, there is a lot of leeway in the ranks E-2 and E-3.  Even though the Mitchell gets E-2, I have seen a number of former Mitchell Cadets, including me, get E-3 in the Army.

I received E3 in the Army for my Mitchell, but that was in 1995

[nmkaufman0]

If a CAP Cadet earns C/2LT, he or she can get promoted to the E-3 pay grade if he or she were to enlist in the Air Force. Do Cadet officers have the same promotion advantages in the other 4 branches of the Armed Forces?

There are five armed services and seven uniformed services.

When I said "other 4 branches", I meant the branches of the Armed Forces other than the Air Force.

[JK657]

Recently with the draw down the ability to get promoted prior to BCT in the Army has been greatly reduced. I enlisted back in 2007 and there were so many incentives that just about everybody got E-2 or E-3. Now, its the opposite, E-1 (fuzzies) are the most common and pretty much the only promotions you are getting is for college. A bachelors degree still does equate to an E-4 though.

[LSThiker]

Recently with the draw down the ability to get promoted prior to BCT in the Army has been greatly reduced. I enlisted back in 2007 and there were so many incentives that just about everybody got E-2 or E-3. Now, its the opposite, E-1 (fuzzies) are the most common and pretty much the only promotions you are getting is for college. A bachelors degree still does equate to an E-4 though.

There are a few other here and there examples of advanced promotion.  For example, if you are a paramedic and enlist as a 68W through Army Civilian Aquired Skills Program (ACASP), they will give you E-4 and shave about 8 weeks of AIT off.  Basically, you skip the EMT-B portion and focus on just the medicine in a combat environment portions.

[Mitchell 1969]

If a CAP Cadet earns C/2LT, he or she can get promoted to the E-3 pay grade if he or she were to enlist in the Air Force. Do Cadet officers have the same promotion advantages in the other 4 branches of the Armed Forces?

There are five armed services and seven uniformed services.

When I said "other 4 branches", I meant the branches of the Armed Forces other than the Air Force.

And...you said it correctly.

[68w20]

Recently with the draw down the ability to get promoted prior to BCT in the Army has been greatly reduced. I enlisted back in 2007 and there were so many incentives that just about everybody got E-2 or E-3. Now, its the opposite, E-1 (fuzzies) are the most common and pretty much the only promotions you are getting is for college. A bachelors degree still does equate to an E-4 though.

There are a few other here and there examples of advanced promotion.  For example, if you are a paramedic and enlist as a 68W through Army Civilian Aquired Skills Program (ACASP), they will give you E-4 and shave about 8 weeks of AIT off.  Basically, you skip the EMT-B portion and focus on just the medicine in a combat environment portions.

I wasn't aware they did.  We had several people fast-track through when I was at Ft. Sam in 2009, but only those with Bachelor's Degrees were E-4s.  Is this a recent change?

[LSThiker]

I wasn't aware they did.  We had several people fast-track through when I was at Ft. Sam in 2009, but only those with Bachelor's Degrees were E-4s.  Is this a recent change?

I cannot say how long that has been around.  However, if I remember correctly, I heard about back in 2000.  Not all fast-trackers through 68W will get E-4.  If I recall correctly, if you are EMT-B, you only E-3 but still skip the first 8 weeks. 

[JK657]

As of about a month ago, they were not giving E-4 for anyone regardless of civilian skill. Thats for the NG, maybe active is different