The Air Force Personnel Center said that 3,333 airmen will pin on higher ranks in November.
The charts provided by AFPC show 611 officers pinning on this month, including 69 new first lieutenants, 113 captains, 251 majors, 127 lieutenant colonels and 48 colonels. In addition:
- Pacific Air Forces Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Kevin Schneider pinned on his second star Nov. 2.
- Brig. Gen. Robert Miller, who has already been frocked and is director of education and training at the Defense Health Agency in Falls Church, Virginia, and commandant of the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston in Texas, will officially pin on his first star.
- Col. Steven Schaick, the command chaplain of Air Education and Training Command at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph in Texas, will pin on his first star.
On the enlisted side, 2,722 airmen will take on their new ranks: 1,294 staff sergeants, 792 technical sergeants, 501 master sergeants, 100 senior master sergeants and 35 chief master sergeants.
The pin-on date is the date when an airman selected for promotion officially takes his next rank. It often comes months — or in some cases, more than a year — after selection for promotion.
Unless airmen are frocked — meaning they are allowed to wear their higher rank after selection, but before their actual promotion date — officers and enlisted airmen must wait to pin on their new ranks until other airmen already in that rank are themselves promoted or leave the service, opening up more slots. That is so the Air Force does not find itself with more airmen in a higher rank than it is legally allowed to have.
The lists of officers and enlisted airmen pinning on can be found here.
