VPLS can be used to transport Ethernet frames to and from multiple, geographically dispersed sites belonging to a customer Virtual Private Network (VPN). The Provider Edge (PE) devices connecting the customer sites provide functions similar to a Layer 2 switch.
Equivalent Ranks to an Army Master Sergeant A Master Sergeant is a Noncommissioned Officer, with a military paygrade of E-8. The civilian equivalent of this military rank is roughly GS-6 under the federal government's General Schedule payscale.
c. Selection and promotion authority by HQDA does not deprive local CDRs of the authority to reduce Soldiers in. the grade of SFC, MSG, and SGM for inefficiency or conviction by a civil court. d. Criteria for primary and secondary zones of consideration for each grade will be announced by the CDR,