Carter wants changes to promotion system

Friday, June 10, 2016

WASHINGTON -- U.S. military troops may be able to sidestep the Pentagon's entrenched, 100-year-old "up or out" promotion system under sweeping new proposals unveiled Thursday, aimed at keeping high-tech experts or other specialists on the job.

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