Murph....you have regerssed back to 1 post!
I have no problem with promoting NCOs, but my experience tells me that if you promote too many too quickly you leave a huge experience gap when the new guys come up, and it is hard to pass that experience along when as a newly commissioned capt you are up to your behind in the work of the other vacant officer posts as well as your own. A wholesale commissioning exercise would weaken the SNCO ranks, which in relaity are what make any unit tick. Don't get me wrong, I don't suggest it is a bad idea, but I suspect DAAvn has thought along similar lines (as would I in his shoes). In a modern army with educated soldiers, especially those trained to the standards of an SNCO pilot predjudice has little or no place and i can't see a "them and us" barrier being a prevention to promotion or commissioning to the same extent as perhaps 30 years ago.