Rebecca Lobach ID’d as female soldier inside doomed Black Hawk during DC crash

New York Post ^

[null and void]

EXCELLENT!!! Thank you!

[Shady]

I’m sure there were other family members who needed to be told.

[T.B. Yoits]

How does one get to be a Captain in the 12th Aviation Battalion, and only have 500 hours of flight experience?

Promotion to captain is by Time-In-Grade. She would have served two years as a second lieutenant, two years as a first lieutenant, and then short of any major Reduction In Forces or screwup on her part, she'd be promoted to captain.

The rank is distinct from the flying hours.

[Romulus]

How many hours did she log?

[Freee-dame]

Maybe the White House aide gig was a part-time thing.

[OakOak]

Those jobs are almost impossible to come by.

She has to be politically connected.

Or connected to a major donor.

[Gulf War One]

Or very well thought of. C’mon....

[mass55th]

Thanks for the information. Two years between promotions? There's not even time enough for you to become proficient as a second lieutenant, before you're promoted to a first lieutenant. That's bizarre.

I worked in uniform for NY State's Correctional Services. I took the Sergeant's exam in 1984 when I had four years on the job. It took me five years after that to make Sergeant (1989), but that was because on the Sergeant's exam I took, the State decided to give extra points to the minorities, so I saw blacks and hispanics promoted ahead of me that had gotten a lower score. And it gave them an extra advantage when the Lieutenant's exam came around. I wasn't eligible to take it when they did. I'm a white female, and there were far more black and hispanic female officers and supervisors in downstate prisons at that time, so us white folk got screwed all the way around.

But in the end, I got even. The State decides your monthly pension amount based on the calculation that you won't live past 15 years after retirement. I took a reduced pension for the first 15 years, so in case I died during that time, my two sons would split what was left in my fund. My fund money ran out after 15 years, and I just started my 22nd year of retirement. The State still has to pay me the same amount with COLA increases every year. And even better, the State reimburses me my Medicare cost every month.

[OakOak]

LOBACK worked as a certified Sexual Harassment /Assault response and prevention victim advocate.

And an Aide to Joe Biden.

[null and void]

Specializing in pediatric victims, I wonder?

[RWGinger]

Yes the Warrant officer was in command