Longest 2ww

[MrsSnaplegs]

Not the usual 2 week wait!! Promotion board sat this week and I have to wait now for the signal to see if I am on it! Aargh going to be longest 2 weeks ever!! Will completely out myself with this thread for anyone in the know but just need to vent some frustration.
I know nothing I do now will change the outcome but I NEED TO KNOW NOW!!!!

Sorry just ignore my ranting!!!

Dh has given up hope of making Capt RN and he goes outside in 3 years. Hence jobs in Brussels, as no point working yourself into an early grave for something that is not going to happen. I think the curve has gone way to the right - db waiting for his brass hat still.

Scary I was waiting to make 2 1/2 I dream of a brass hat

Problem is with the reduction in manpower there will be even fewer promotions than there are now.

Isn't it automatic to Lt Cdr anymore?

No not in most branches it is by selection board, only really dr and dentists who still get it automatically at that point.

Well my boss is suddenly having to move jobs to fill a gap elsewhere, his relief isn't available until end of this year so fingers crossed I am going to substitute for 6 months at higher rank - good for my reports for next promotion board and nice to get the extra pay for 6 months (although DH has already started planning to spend it)
Shame it's not permanent promotion but will give me chance to prove myself if I hold it all together!

Better stop wasting time on here!!

Make sure you fitness test is done - no-one available at SHAPE to do it for the Brussels officers, and they were all not entered in the promotion boards this year because of this!

Yep fitness test booked for tomorrow afternoon although in theory as I have only been back off maternity leave for 6 weeks I don't have to do it till October.

That's classed as a career foul scary has your dh lodged a complaint?

Well it's that time of year again - results out today, have been up since 0420 worrying about it only 4 hours or so to wait now
Please wish me luck

Good luck MrsS, sincerely.

Thanks Eve
Stomach definitely churning - perhaps I should have some breakfast

Good luck MrsSnaplegs, DH would like the same half stripe (but lt blue so not competition ) but we're watching the redundancies more closely :( Wish Jue would hurry up.
At least his boss has offered to make his current post FTRS if the axe falls

Got it

Yes! Yes! Yes!

Well Done MrsS Woo Hoo!!!

Congratulations! (curtsies to MrsS....)

Sorry to gatecrash - not my usual MN abode - but I have a question. A very good friend of mine is hoping for promotion this year. I don't understand all your lingo, but he is in the Army - do you all hear at the same time?

Congratulations MrsSnaplegs.

Post bellum no it depends in the army on rank and I don't think any of theirs is today

Everyone else thank you - large for me later - off to fight some fires

Congratulations!

PostBellum,

If you know your friend's current rank I can tell you when his promotion board sits if you like.

Mrs S, I am very very pleased for you

Fantastic - I am sooo pleased for you! Next stop Brass Hat!!

Thank you MrsS & LtEve. He is Lt Col.

Congratulations!!

Hey Post - Blue List results (promotion from Lt Col to Col) are due on 24 May. Good luck to your friend.

Congrats!

Thank you LtEve. He's married to the Army (almost literally - confirmed batchelor), so I shall be keeping my fingers crossed for him!