Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-25449165-20161013231440/@comment-734582-20161014224508

Namikazenaruto9 wrote: so Naruto is still genin even after saving the village from nagato's onslaught and than stopping basically the strongest of uchihas ,the chakra progenitor Kaguya and fighting most of the 4th great ninja war on his own?!And they didn't even promote him to chunin! What a way to commemorate a hero! To be clear, it's not really a rank, it seems more of a role designation to me. It requires certain skills -leadership skills and risk assessments- and when it comes to that, there's simply no way to grant Naruto - a guy who charges in first and makes it up as he goes along- fits the Chunin bill.

So again it's not really a military rank.