The Air Force has selected 2,518 captains for promotion to major, in the latest promotion boards for line, chaplain, nurse corps, and biomedical science corps officers. For line officers, the in-the-zone promotion rate was 93.3 percent, slightly better than the last board’s 92.4 percent. On the other hand, the above-the-zone selection rate was lower at only 8.9 percent compared to 11.2 percent last year.
The rate of building B-21 bombers would speed up if the fiscal 2026 defense budget passes. But it remains unclear how much capacity would be added, and whether the Air Force would simply build the bombers faster, or buy more.
