I don't get your problem. You're talking about serving only 8 months and that you don't have a "chance" to rise higher like it's a bad thing. Did you want to do 11 months? You could have swapped places with me then.
Boohoo... I was doing basic training in the hottest summer of the last 50 years while you were sitting in the beach checking out women. Don't tell me about chances. I would gladly be a private for 8 months, having that carefree life of only doing what you're told and serving 3 months less.
But yes, not all privates are lazy and stupid, most are even alright but it only takes a few to hold everyone back.
JPeace, with all do respect, you don't know what you're talking about. It's national service here, not volunteer army which means 90% of people are there against their will and many will take any opportunity to slack, whinge and generally be a pain in the ass.
Private is the lowest rank. Corporal (a good soldier or a NCO course failure) is next. Then it's Junior Sergeant (nooremseersant) which is the lowest NCO rank. It's nothing special really. I serve in the artillery and almost a quarter of the people are NCO's. I actually have only one person "directly under me" (a driver) because I'm not a squad leader-NCO but a specialist-NCO. I prefer it that way. Privates are fat, lazy and stupid and I only have one to worry about not a whole squad of 12 people.
Not really. He made the movement but there's no way he would have reached it.
It's funny that what we perseive as cheating depends on whether the player gets away with it. If the ref hadn't seen Suarez do it, I would have thought of him as cheating scum but now he's a hero who saved his team. It's very hypocritical, I know, but that's just how my mind works.