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https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2025-05-29/army-officer-promotion-lawsuit-back-pay-17952035.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawKplSpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHoyRJ8XmgkNfOsgo7inIXmtPFpG_Nv73X7k4ZRvG6_prKozrgLclrQXepDJy_aem_dtgDXTCnlRFz7jHdPGhzYwA retired Army officer whose promotion to major was botched in an administrative error lost his lawsuit against the government to get his rank corrected and receive back pay, according to federal court documents. Ronald Schow, 53, has spent more than a decade fighting to right the mistake and said this final court decision against him was disappointing and exhausting. “The judge was very sympathetic,” he said Wednesday. “But she provided a traceable, defendable decision that isn’t what we wanted.” Schow was slated for promotion from captain to major in 2006, yet the Army inadvertently left his name off the list that service officials sent to the Senate for confirmation — a step required by law. The service still sent Schow a promotion order that his unit believed to be accurate, and the mistake went unknown to him until the Army attempted to promote Schow again six years later. Schow retired to Indiana as a captain in 2017 and — after exhausting all administrative options — filed the lawsuit in 2023 in Federal Claims Court aiming to get $180,000 in back pay that he would have received had he retired as a major and increase his retirement pay going forward.
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