E6 to E7 is a congressional promotion, his ass was already in the system and he was well skilled at ass kissery. He just never went to FSC or SMA to go higher. I served in the Fallujah AO during the initial invasion and our armory NCO had served in Vietnam, I jad to go get a crash course on the M60 from him when my M2 failed since we had no TMs for it.