[AbnSarge]

In today’s active duty Army, you don’t get five years to be a butterbar. If you’re half-way competent, you’d make 1st Lt. within 18 to 30 months....otherwise you’re shown the door.

...unless part of that time was enlisted.

[deport]

Lieutenant Cruz, who is based in Texas and works in military intelligence,
acknowledged that his mother had illegally entered the country but called
her removal “completely unnecessary.”

“Her as a responsible mother did what any mother in her situation
would do and came back to care for her children by any means,” he
said. “A country that was founded on immigrants should be welcoming
to my mother, who her whole life has been an outstanding citizen.”

...OUTSTANDING CITIZEN....

Citizen ... not quite
Outsanding.. maybe