The Marines are promoted on the basis of their bounty collection

New Admirals were appointed to their

position through a mysterious draft that

we were given no context on and I might

have figured out what actually happened.

If we are being honest we aren't really

given too much context of how one Rises

through the ranks of the Marines. we know

that akainu had to fight aokiji to

attain his Fleet Admiral rank but below

that how does one become an admiral?

We know that GARP was offered the Admiral rank but we don't know exactly for what but he always turned it down but we get an interesting example with smoker he was promoted to Commodore because of his reported role in Saving alabasta and for that he only Rose one rank.

Then in the time skip he jumped 2 ranks

to vice admiral but how did he manage

that the only thing that really makes sense

is collecting bounties.

I think that bounties are really

for the Marines and on top of the money

they are also offered higher ranks for

compensation which is probably what the

Navy draft during the time skip was, it

was a bounty rush fujitora and

Greenbull were probably the two people

who collected the most bounties and why

does this make sense because the impel

down prisoners escaped so whoever

captured the influx of bounties could

have a fast track towards promotions

even to the level of an admiral and all

of this could explain how Kobe Rose to

the ranks so quickly.