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What's the most time in service a Marine Staff Sergeant can hypothetically have?
I ask this because I saw a Staff Sergeant's jacket at Salvation Army a couple of months ago. I told the manager and promptly the chevrons were removed. Though they left the six hashmarks on, but I didn't want to be a jerk about that since they were so nice about the chevrons.
But today I thought about that again, and six hashmarks seems excessive. Maybe the good Staff Sergeant ended his first term a Lance Corporal. But shouldn't he have made Sergeant during his third term at the latest? Would they allow him to stagnate at Staff Sergeant for 12 years?
3 AnswersMilitary7 years agoWhat are some ways to make a trip to China very expensive?
Let's say I'm a very corrupt university official, say, the dean of a university's college of engineering in a very important city in the American midwest, and let's say I was unilaterally installed in this position against the wishes of the faculty. I'm making the university pay for these trips to China, which are purportedly to raise the enrollment rate of Chinese students.
1 AnswerHigher Education (University +)7 years agoWhat did Maggie Lane sing on America's Got Talent?
The one who showed up in a plain dress, started singing and cast off the dress to show a red bikini? What was she singing? Given the plot of the opera, could there be any justification for her costuming choice?
1 AnswerClassical7 years agoWhat kinds of real integers have complex cubic roots that are algebraic integers?
Besides 1?
1 AnswerMathematics7 years agoHow would the Zimmerman case have played out under these different scenarios?
1. Both Zimmerman and Martin are white. Oh, and Zimmerman has no Hispanic ancestry.
2. Zimmerman is white, Martin is black. But Zimmerman is a legal immigrant from Europe.
3. Zimmerman is black, Martin is white.
4. Both Zimmerman and Martin are black.
12 AnswersLaw & Ethics8 years agoHow do you prove every integer is the divisor of some Fibonacci number?
Obviously 1 divides all Fibonacci numbers. 2 divides every third Fibonacci number. 3 divides every fourth Fibonacci number. 4 divides every sixth Fibonacci number. But how do you prove this for every integer?
1 AnswerMathematics8 years agoWhat are the five tools?
4 AnswersBaseball8 years agoWhat does Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture have to do with U. S. Independence Day?
Wouldn't P. D. Q. Bach's 1712 Overture be more appropriate?
5 AnswersClassical8 years agoWhat is the best Wikipedia criticism site these days?
Now that WikiTruth is gone.
1 AnswerWikipedia8 years agoIs it true the U. S. is a major exporter of oil?
And if so, what sense does that make when there's all this complaining about a dependency on foreign oil?
6 AnswersEconomics8 years agoWhich composer do classical music snobs prefer over all others?
Snobs who find Mozart too tuneful and Schoenberg too mainstream.
8 AnswersClassical9 years agoWhat Bible verse can back up tax cuts for the rich?
Don't be afraid to stretch and shoehorn if necessary.
2 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoIf a and b are integers, what are the conditions needed for log_b a to be rational?
e.g., log_343 (823543) = 7/3, but log_6 (144) doesn't look rational.
1 AnswerMathematics9 years agoWho is likely to be older: the First Sergeant or the Colonel?
In terms of age, not length of military career.
7 AnswersMilitary9 years agoWhat does "solo" and "tutti" mean in Mozart's Horn Concertos?
It would seem he uses "solo" when the horn comes in, but sometimes "tutti" occurs when only the violins are playing (no oboes, no violas, etc.)
5 AnswersClassical9 years agoIn the Attack of the Clones, why did Mace Windu seem concerned after killing Jango Fett?
Hasn't he killed lots of other people?
2 AnswersMovies9 years agoWhat would a publicity hog need to do to get excommunicated from the Catholic church by the Pope himself?
I'm talking about someone who was baptized Catholic, believes in God and Jesus, but disagrees with the church on various issues like stem cell research. (Not me, I'm Jewish, I practice Judaism).
2 AnswersReligion & Spirituality10 years agoHow do you use the nCr and nPr buttons on a 2-line calculator?
I thought I would enter the first number, push nCr or nPr, then the second number. It gives me a "math error" and so does pushing it first then the numbers separated by a comma. What am I doing wrong?
1 AnswerMathematics10 years agoTaking the Bush campaign at face value, how long did George W. Bush serve in the National Guard?
Feel free to distinguish between the Texas Air National Guard and other states' if you want.
4 AnswersMilitary10 years ago