You get promotions through activity.
Activity:
1) Talking frequantly on ComNet. Also, it's "talking/communicating", not spamming.
2) Taking an active role in your squad - asking questions, offering assistance, completing your tasks, writing well, attending squad meetings, sending in weekly squad reports.
3) Chatting on mIRC (if you have it -
Get mIRC Here) or Java Chat.
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Cleric "Cosmic" Vor'soth
CoT/BG Cosmic/HCA-3/SL/3SQD/2PLT/1COMP/1BAT/Tadath/VEA/VE
[OPE][OTH][OPA][EW1][CDS][IH][GS][LM][SoS][CRoM][CoH][PoC][MSM][SCP][SoA][IOC]
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Cleric "Cosmic" Vor'soth
SL/KPR Cosmic/Lion 1-1/Lopen/VEDJ/VE
[VP][WoS2][KC1][SoY][EoP][OAK]
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