Out of 15,151 eligible candidates, the Air Force selected 1,734 master sergeants for promotion to senior master sergeant this year, the highest total since 1991, when 2,208 master sergeants were selected for promotion, according to an AFPC spokesperson.
The Air Force is making it easier for career enlisted Airmen to retrain into a different specialty, following similar changes it made earlier this year for first-term service members. The Noncommissioned Officer Retraining Program (NCORP), for Airmen on their second or any subsequent term of enlistment, ...
The Air Force selected just 9,000 senior airmen for promotion to staff sergeant this year for a 17.4 percent promotion rate—numbers unseen since the years following the Cold War.