[Basenshukai]

There was a NG 2LT who went through the entire Q Course and graduated ... as a 2LT. I don't know what group he belonged to, but, he had zero PL time and zero "anything else" time. He was not prior service and was probably no more than 23 years old. This is not ancient history. I'm talking about within the last three years.

I didn't think it was a particularly good idea. Heck, when I was an engineer, you had to have previous PL experience, and hand-picked by the BC, just to take the specialty platoon (and that was just conventional Army stuff).