[whatshisface]

I'm not aware of any contemporary cases where someone direct commissioned but agreed to a lower "dollar-a-year" payscale. I think our prior assumption should be that these four people are on O5 until we hear for sure.

[jki275]

They're O5s. But in the reserves, so they won't be getting paid much unless they're activated.

[tptacek]

Sure! Also: I am saving a lot of space for the underlying arrangement here being super weird and norm-breaking, for obvious reasons.