Chapter 9 - Promotion Systems Flashcards
The enlisted promotion system supports
DoD Directive 1304.20, Enlisted Personnel Management System (EPMS)
Provides visible, relatively stable career progression opportunities; attracting, retaining, and motivating the kinds and numbers of people the military needs; and ensuring a reasonably uniform application of the principle of equal pay for equal work among the services.
The Enlisted Promotion System
Provides detailed information regarding enlisted promotion systems.
AFI 36-2502, Enlisted Airman Promotion/Demotion Programs,
Are tied to fiscal year-end strength and are affected by funding limits, regulatory limits, and the number of projected vacancies in specific grades.
Promotion quotas for Staff Sergeant through Chief Master Sergeant
Limits the number of Airmen who may serve in the Regular Air Force in the top two enlisted grades.
Public law, as outlined in Title 10 United States Code, Armed Forces
The authorized average of enlisted members on Regular Air Force status (other than for training) in pay grades E-8 and E-9 in a fiscal year may not be more than
2.5 percent and 1.25 percent, respectively
Airmen in the grade of Airman First Class may compete for early advancement to Senior Airman if they meet the minimum eligibility criteria.
Airman Below-the-Zone Promotion Program
If promoted to Senior Airman below-the-zone, the promotion effective date is
six months before their fully qualified date
Is designed to meet those unique circumstances that, in a commander’s judgment, clearly warrant promotion.
Stripes for Exceptional Performers Program
An individual may not receive more than one promotion under any combination of promotion programs within
A 12-month period
Airmen compete for promotion and test under the __________ in the control Air Force Specialty Code (AFSC) held on the promotion eligibility cutoff date
Weighted Airman Promotion System (WAPS)
This is a two-phased promotion process
Senior Noncommissioned Officer Promotions
Senior Noncommissioned Officer Promotions Phase I consists of
Weighted Airman Promotion System (WAPS)
Senior Noncommissioned Officer Promotions Phase II consists of
The central evaluation board held at Air Force Personnel Center
Is typically processed on a monthly basis. Eligible Staff Sergeants through Senior Master Sergeants whose weighable data changes in their promotion file compete monthly for promotion consideration.
In-System Supplemental Promotion Process
Is for those members promotion-eligible to Master Sergeant, Senior Master Sergeant, or Chief Master Sergeant.
Senior Noncommissioned Officer supplemental board
To ensure timely periodic promotions and to permit accurate forecasting of vacancies.
Promotion Cycles
Are based on a combination of position vacancy, time-in- grade, time-in-service, fitness, and completion of appropriate professional military education.
Air Force Reserve promotions
May be promotion eligible to Airman at six months of time in grade.
Airman Basic
May be promotion eligible to Airman First Class at 10 months of time in grade.
Airman
Are promoted from Airman Basic to Airman First Class upon completion of either technical training or 20 weeks of technical training after graduation from basic military training (whichever occurs first).
Airmen initially enlisting for a period of six years
May be promotion eligible to Senior Airman upon completion of 36 months of time in service and 20 months of time in grade or 28 months of time in grade (whichever occurs first).
Airman First Class
Required skill level in primary Air Force Specialty Code (AFSC) is 3-level.
Senior Airman
May be promotion eligible to Staff Sergeant upon completion of three years of time in service and six months of time in grade.
Senior Airmen