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AIR FORCE STAFF SERGEANT PROMOTIONS LOWEST IN YEARS, PART OF BIGGER SLOWDOWN



Senior Airmen Cherielyn Joslyn (left), Christina Snow (center) and Carmina
Villegas (right), from the 60th Diagnostics and Therapeutics Squadron help each
other to apply temporary staff sergeant stripes during the staff sergeant
release party at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., in August 2017. (U.S. Air Force
photo/Heide Couch)
18 Aug 2022
Military.com | By Thomas Novelly

The Air Force announced Wednesday that it had promoted 21% of eligible airmen to
become staff sergeants -- the lowest rate since 1997 -- as the service continues
to slow noncommissioned officers' movement up the ranks.

The service selected 9,706 senior airmen out of nearly 46,000 this year to
become staff sergeants, a selection rate of around 21%. The rate hasn't been
that low since 1997, when 18.6% were selected, according to data from the Air
Force Personnel Center.




"This promotion cycle selection rate was impacted by enlisted grade
restructuring, a leveling-off of end-strength growth, and high retention
levels," Staff Sgt. Kiana Pearson said in a news release. "These changes are
part of long-term efforts to increase experience levels within the
noncommissioned officer corps."

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In July, the service announced that promotion opportunities for enlisted troops
would significantly decrease, delivering a crushing blow to new airmen who were
hoping to climb the ranks in the near future.




"Although this news may be discouraging for some, this revision is absolutely
needed and allows us to grow the Air Force our nation needs," Lt. Gen. Caroline
Miller, deputy chief of staff for Manpower, Personnel and Services, said in a
July statement.

From 2015 to 2021, enlisted end strength grew by nearly 16,000 airmen, which
brought increased opportunities for promotion, the service said. This led to a
large number of noncommissioned officers with only a small amount of experience
in the military advancing up the ranks in a short period of time.

The Air Force's 2023 budget, however, has reduced the active-duty enlisted force
to 257,856 from the 265,658 requested in 2021.

That means "higher promotion opportunity is no longer available and will be
further constrained as strengths drops [sic] by 3,000 into FY23 from its high in
March 2022," the service said.

Katherine L. Kuzminski, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American
Security think tank who researches military culture, said the Air Force was
previously putting a lot of emphasis on technical skills instead of experience,
leading many newly enlisted airmen to rapidly rank up.

"The Air Force in particular values technical expertise, and have given airmen a
chance to prove it and promote faster than usual," Kuzminski told Military.com
in an interview. "But they may have not had the experience to lead at the
echelon they are being promoted to."

From 2010 through 2021, promotion percentages to staff sergeant hovered anywhere
from a high of 51% to 25%, typically well above this year's rate.

Details of how the decrease in promotions will unfold haven't been revealed by
the Air Force, but photos of PowerPoint slides leaked online last month show
deep cuts to the number of noncommissioned officers over the upcoming years --
especially staff sergeants.

Air Force spokeswoman Laurel Tingley confirmed the authenticity of the slides to
Military.com and said they were "generated to inform discussions among Air Force
leaders."

The number of airmen with the rank of staff sergeant, which now hovers around
27% of the total enlisted force, will dip to 22% -- a loss of roughly 14,000 of
the enlisted corps by 2023, according to the slides.

By 2025, the service hopes to have 49% of the total enlisted force be
noncommissioned officers and 51% consist of junior enlisted, the slides show.

While the news of the slowed promotions was criticized by many new airmen
online, Kuzminski said it allows troops who have been in the ranks for a longer
period of time a chance to show their leadership skills.

"This is, in part, a growing pain," Kuzminksi said. "It's systematically
allowing everyone to achieve the same level of experience in order to lead."

-- Thomas Novelly can be reached at thomas.novelly@military.com. Follow him on
Twitter @TomNovelly.

Related: Air Force to Promote Fewer Noncommissioned Officers as Worries About
Inexperience Grow

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