Yeah usually at the beginning and later on the promotions get sparse. I'm at a point where virtually my entire crew are Chief Petty Officers/Officers, and each patrol get between 0 and 3 promotions because it takes so much exp to level them up.
Oddly enough, Chief Petty Officers can get promoted to Ensigns, which I don't really think happened in real life (I thought enlisted and officer promotion tracks were separate with a few exceptions- I never heard of an E-10 busting his hump up to O-1). And once they reach Lieutenant, the real fun begins, you need a whopping 20,000 exp to promote them from there.
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