(Clicking on the chart brings up the readable version.)
The timeline generally works like this: in December, there's a board that determines who will be promoted over the course of the following year. In April, the list is announced, the above-the-zone promotions are announced, and the promotions begin . Around July there's a huge jump. By November, the list is finished and the next year's cycle begins.
Some years are strange. In 2008, less than 7 percent had been promoted by June, but July saw two-thirds of the year group promoted in that one month alone. In 2007 and 2009, some promotions were backdated all the way to January.
Before 2006, the system was a little different. In 2003 and 2004, the cycle ran from March through February of the next year. I didn't want the chart to be any more complicated than it already is, so I left those years out.
So there you go -- the pace of the Army's promotions to captain. Though it doesn't address things like zone of consideration or number of total annual promotions, it can help future promotable lieutenants guess roughly when they can expect their promotions.
Monday, July 02, 2012
Pace of Captain Promotions
I was curious about the timeline for captain promotions, so I pulled up the monthly MILPER messages from the Army HRC website and researched the Army Competitive Category promotions from 2003 to 2011.
(Clicking on the chart brings up the readable version.)
The timeline generally works like this: in December, there's a board that determines who will be promoted over the course of the following year. In April, the list is announced, the above-the-zone promotions are announced, and the promotions begin . Around July there's a huge jump. By November, the list is finished and the next year's cycle begins.
Some years are strange. In 2008, less than 7 percent had been promoted by June, but July saw two-thirds of the year group promoted in that one month alone. In 2007 and 2009, some promotions were backdated all the way to January.
Before 2006, the system was a little different. In 2003 and 2004, the cycle ran from March through February of the next year. I didn't want the chart to be any more complicated than it already is, so I left those years out.
So there you go -- the pace of the Army's promotions to captain. Though it doesn't address things like zone of consideration or number of total annual promotions, it can help future promotable lieutenants guess roughly when they can expect their promotions.
(Clicking on the chart brings up the readable version.)
The timeline generally works like this: in December, there's a board that determines who will be promoted over the course of the following year. In April, the list is announced, the above-the-zone promotions are announced, and the promotions begin . Around July there's a huge jump. By November, the list is finished and the next year's cycle begins.
Some years are strange. In 2008, less than 7 percent had been promoted by June, but July saw two-thirds of the year group promoted in that one month alone. In 2007 and 2009, some promotions were backdated all the way to January.
Before 2006, the system was a little different. In 2003 and 2004, the cycle ran from March through February of the next year. I didn't want the chart to be any more complicated than it already is, so I left those years out.
So there you go -- the pace of the Army's promotions to captain. Though it doesn't address things like zone of consideration or number of total annual promotions, it can help future promotable lieutenants guess roughly when they can expect their promotions.
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