Air Force 6/76 - 6/80. Made E-4 Sgt.
I have a nephew how joined the AF when I was getting short, he wrote me a letter right after he was done with basic asking me why I only made E-4. I was working with a bunch of short timers so we got together and wrote a group reply to him informing him in great graphic and VERY obscene detail just where he stood in the food chain, and several suggestions of where he could go and what he could do with himself when he got there.