S1 Manpower Branch Clerk is to prepare rank promotion list to
send to their respective immediate superiors to approve first. Once
approved, S1 Manpower Branch will then do the paperwork. If you got
marked down, you cannot be promoted the same as your peers as your
officer in charge don't approve.
If S1 Manpower Branch have administrative lapse in paperwork,
your rank promotion can be delayed. So make friends with clerks to
help you check.
Different camps may have slight additional policy in
place.
For example, this camp CO order is that we need to pass IPPT to
promote to LCP.
LCP is essentially a vocational rank to show you have the basic
skillset of your vocation.
But for CPL, PES A/ B combat-fit personnel must pass IPPT for
sure.
Since 2009, if when you OOC in BMT and no recourse BMT, you are
to ORD as Recruit.
You must complete BMT, then can progressed as a Private.