[leadpenny]

To clarify a comment made in the article, it's not that 98% of Army Captains were promoted to Major last year, but that it was 98% of the Captains in the zone of consideration were selected for promotion. They get promoted sequentially from the promotion list. Still, an incredible number.

The desired rate is near 70%.

That said, it indicates to me that Captains are choosing to leave the Army at an astonishing rate.

[Leisler]

A lot of officers are ticket punching college careerists that look to the military as a job with instant prestige enforced upon the working class enlisted. When they find out it is a virtue and values occupation that demands work and responsibility beyond what their little tender spirits can handle...they screw back to the civilian world where they can tell war stories about them leading SEAL teams into caves with a knife so he didn't wake up the other Al Qeada terrorists.