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Nope, he has nothing in has background that warrants a direct commission to O-3. His bio says he was a philosophy major. He was prior enlisted in the reserve, but you and I know that gets you O-1 out of OTS.

I agree, it is a mystery.

FitRep says Ensign. Article is BS, look as this article from 2013: https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/local/navy-reserve-to-deploy-buttigieg-to-afghanistan/article_5ccb3a3a-1bd1-11e3-bec9-0019bb30f31a.html
He was a LTJG prior to deployment.

Article is interesting. Buttplug joined the Reserves 2009 after all major fighting in Iraq had ended. By 2013, the Marine Corps no longer conducted major command rotations to Afghanistan and we were reducing our foot print in Afghanistan. I am smelling politics in his service. As the Mayor of a City, he could have gotten out of deployment the Navy Reserve is easy like that and there would have been plenty of people willing to take his place. Politically is was a very good visual and he was in a low risk billet. Still he deployed and he served so he gets some points there, but his life style, his lectures on what a real Christian is and his socialist tendencies far out way his service. I think he is not going to make it through Super Tuesday.