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Air Force major risks everything with public call to impeach Trump and Vance
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2026
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As someone unfamiliar with Air Force ranks, I tried to look up how big a deal the rank of major is. Is this something that is after a year or two in the service? A decade? Are there hundreds of majors in the Air Force? Thousands? Tens of thousands?
Fairly big as they are very close to the top. You'd have to go to a military academy and be in for over a decade.
very is relative.
Generally, an officer starts with that first gold bar then moves on to the second, silver bar after finishing school (4 years). Sometime within 2 years after that they’re likely to move up again, and after that it becomes politics where it could be anywhere from 2 years to the rest of your career before another promotion depending on how much people like you
TIL the US Air force uses army ranks for its officers instead of Carpet Cleaner, Squadron Leader, Wing Commander, Tailfin Director or whatever the Commonwealth uses.
Its a middling mamagement role, typically you can't get your own command until one rank higher. It's about 6-8 years of service starting at O-1. There should be a few hundred of them in the Airforce.
However he did a big no no, specifically making political statements while in uniform if the pictures here are accurate. He could be facing time in prison over that if it goes to court martial. So effectively he's tanked his career, and risked his freedom when he could have done just one of those things. Middle management small dick syndrome if iv'e ever seen it. Willing to bet he found out he wasn't getting promoted or something to do something so assanine in order to pick up sympathy points for a political run later.