OK I read the article.
Does anyone know what he was working on? It does not say if he was an M.D., probably not because promotion to O-5 comes earlier than age 35 for them (Congress will not allow a separate M.D. pay scale for the military and PHS, so instead they go quickly to O-6. Not the way I would do it, but that’s what it is).
Agree it’s a probable suicide, but would be nice to know hat he was doing.
“(Congress will not allow a separate M.D. pay scale for the military and PHS, so instead they go quickly to O-6. Not the way I would do it, but that’s what it is).”
The same guidelines for making O-6 apply to physicians and non alike. Physicians have different bonus incentives to bolster their paychecks.