What is the Air National Guard rank structure time frame?

Answer 1

It's technically the same as Active Duty air force with a few exceptions... first there has to be rank in your current office or workcenter available.. some one may have to retire or die first. Or like my unit you are told that the position that you just got hired into full time used to be a MSgt slot but now is only a TSgt because they created a SMSgt supervisor slot in your office... which by the way myself or my counterpart can never get too in our own office because there isn't another MSgt stripe available... so now we have to leave our office to go work somewhere else for god knows how long in order to make rank in our job...to make it even better they dangled a Master stripe in front of our faces for a year and we both completed our NCO academies to compete for the stripe.. well now it is being held for a traditional part time employee and is never mentioned to you, I had to find this out on my own. I am very disgruntled at this time and have no idea what I have to work for if I have no way to get promoted because I love my job and don't want to leave just to make rank and then try to come back 15 years later if I'm lucky.