“I thought I just heard he was promoted?”
He was promoted from 2nd Lieutenant to 1st Lieutenant.
That initial promotion for officers is unlike all others - it does not require board selection. It is automatic at around 18 months, unless a bar is actively put in place against that individual - which requires certain legal standards.
I imagine that he was given a bit of a chance to reform/prove himself, in case it was just a stupid joke on his part, in his youth. He was a combat veteran and a ranger as an Enlisted Man, as well as a West Point graduate after all. Now he has proven that he will persist with his BS.
It is appropriate that his discharge is Without Honor.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
He was attached to a Ranger battalion, I believe, and is not an actual graduate of Ranger school.
That must be an army thing.