Pressing: Manufacturing may be one of your biggest expenses. There are a few different ways this can go down: If you have a distribution deal, your distributor may pay for manufacturing up front and then recoup the costs from sales.
When a opening takes place (someone retires) then the Marine Corps promotion board looks at the available candidates and their fitness report scores to fill the vacancy. So make sure you have excellent scores and reports. I picked up SSgt (E6) in 10 years. Gunnery Sergeant (E7) may take up to 14 to 16 years.
An E-6's pay begins at $2,281 per month and rises to $3,533 per month, for more than 20 years' service. The pay for an E-7, a gunnery sergeant, begins at $2,637 per month and rises to as much as $4,189 per month, for more than 20 years of service.The pay for an E-8 starts at $3,794 per month and rises to $4,568 per month, for a master sergeant with more than 20 years of service in the Corps.A master gunnery sergeant, an E-9, is the highest enlisted rank.he field grade officers of the Marine Corps, the Lieutenant Colonels and Colonels, are pay grades O-5 and O-6, respectively. Pay for an O-5, a lieutenant colonel, begins at $4,893 per month and rises, after 20 years' service, to $8,070 per month.