In line with Navy operations, promoting to O4 is a weird journey of steps. First, you need to be looked at by some board with a lot of important people on it. If they say you should get promoted, then your name gets submitted on a list to congress who then needs to approve the promotion (this is called being selected). This happened on 28OCT21 You can (try) to read the formal communication about it here.

Finally, on Sept. 1st, 2022 he started being paid the O4 salary. Then, about a week later, we had the “formal” pinning ceremony and he finally gets to wear his oak leaf. Brian repeats an oath to serve the country to his CO.

I got to remove his old rank and put his new rank (oak leaf) on.

And we stay and celebrate with a couple beers after.

I am really proud of him for promoting. He’s very non chalant, “everyone promotes to O4”, but I don’t think he remembers all the people who don’t stay in this long to get promoted.

It was his last big goal in the Navy (beside retirement) and he made it. Proud of him!