Hey Red,
From my observations, I think the amount of stripes on your shoulder is based on how may posts you've made to the forum and not your rank on BF2 or some other online game you happen to play. Notice I'm a one striper with less then 30 posts. I think I will be a 2 striper at 31 posts to the forum. And then there's chatter box Honky with over 130+ posts to the forum..... hence he's a Master Sargent or something there of.
I noticed you have ONE post, ironically..... about nil stripes. Start posting mate! But then I could have it all wrong, in which case, Honky can sort it all out.
"Dingo"
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