Anyone who played WC1 knows how fast you were advancing from 2nd LT to Lt.Col in just one year. Well of course, this seems to be MUCH too fast. But is there any realistic rule in the WC universe in how to become promoted? In the German Army, for example, you have to be Leutnant for a certain amount of time (approx. 3 years) in order to get promoted (in peace time, maybe in wartime it definitely goes faster, just look at the german movie DAS BOOT, where the skipper was 31 years old). Anyway, one does not become Lt Col with 22years...