If you could see your moving hand very clear and crisp, then your eye needed to make more snapshots of it to make it look fluid. If you had a movie with 50 very sharp and crisp images per second, your eye would make out lots of details from time to time and you had the feeling, that the movie is stuttering.
As of June 1, 2011, you can earn the following Army promotion points with civilian education: 1  1 point per civilian education course passed, including CLEP/DANTES tests. 2  10 points for earning a degree while serving. 3  10 points for earning at least a 1/1 rating on a Defense Language Proficiency test.
Among the changes prompted by the wars in the Middle East is a policy that authorizes promotion points for time spent in a combat zone â up to 30 points for sergeant, and 60 points for staff sergeant.