Deployments Scrubbed from AF Promotions

Deployments Scrubbed from AF Promotions
February 11, 2009
Military.com|by Bryan Mitchell

Imagine leading perilous convoys across Iraq's deadly streets for nearly a year and learning it won't mean squat when it comes time to compete for the senior master sergeant promotion board.

Or how about providing vital close-air support in Afghanistan and discovering it won't be included when a board decides whether to promote you to lieutenant colonel.

That's the reality scores of Air Force officers and senior NCOs are facing now that the Air Force, in a move sure to cause confusion -- if not outrage -- will be deleting deployment history from duty qualification briefs for officer selection and pre-selection, and from senior NCO evaluation briefs. The new policy will apply to all active-duty members as well as Reserve and National Guard Airmen.

"These changes will impact management level reviews, as well as officer and enlisted central selection boards," Air Force Lt. Col. John Giles, chief of Promotions and Evaluations at the Pentagon, said in a Feb. 4 Air Force release.

And the change is coming soon.


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