Forum:Alliance Ranks and Promotions

I am curious as to how the Alliance promotes its military personel. In ME1 Ashley Williams is ranked as a Gunnery Chief. Given that the events of this game take place in 2183 and that she is supposedly born in 2158 and assuming that she enlisted at 18 this means she had to advance 5 rank grades in just 7 years.

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Systems_Alliance_Military_Ranks#Systems_Alliance:_Military_Ranks

This is good going, particularly considering how much she believes that upper elements of the alliance are actively holding her back.

By the time ME3 rolls around, sorry don't know the date, she is now ranked at Lieutenant Commander, another 5 rank grade jump in however many years.

When I served as soldier in the british army it was a fact that you had to spend at least 1 year in your current rank before you are even considered for further promotion.

I suppose she could have been picked out for special training in order to become an NCO so rapidly, similar to how the cold war soviet union got its NCOs, but that would contradict her belief that as General Williams grand daughter she is being held back.

What do others think, and any ideas as to why she has advanced so far 10 rank grades so fast?--TSwiftFan1346 23:43, March 6, 2012 (UTC)