Comment by tptacek
3 months ago
There's apparently a long history of honorary or symbolic reservist rank being given to civilian advisors; a good starting Google search is "dollar-a-year men".
3 months ago
There's apparently a long history of honorary or symbolic reservist rank being given to civilian advisors; a good starting Google search is "dollar-a-year men".
The direct commission program is ordinarily used for medical providers and they are on the same payscale as everyone else that holds their rank.
But medical providers aren't commissioned as advisors, they're commissioned to actually deliver services, right?
I'm not aware of any contemporary cases where someone direct commissioned but agreed to a lower "dollar-a-year" payscale. I think our prior assumption should be that these four people are on O5 until we hear for sure.
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