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What is the highest possible officer rank you could obtain when you enlist?
Assume you had a Doctorate in Medicine or something of great value.
Assume you went through ROTC or some other form of officer training.
Maybe you speak a dozen languages including Intel languages like Russian, Chinese, Farsi, Arabic, Spanish.
As far as I know, they will start a medical doctor out as a Captain, though in the TV show MASH, the character Charles Winchester was a Major and seemed to have joined at that rank.
So just how high could one start?
O-3 is typical for medical doctors and some chaplains - havne't heard of many going in higher than that.
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