More than 3,300 recently airmen pinned on their higher ranks in January, the Air Force said Monday.
The pin-on lists, provided by the Air Force Personnel Center, included 591 officers and 2,712 enlisted airmen. In all, 3,303 airmen were officially promoted last month.
Among the newly-promoted officers were 74 first lieutenants, 102 captains, 247 majors, 121 lieutenant colonels and 47 colonels.
The list of newly-promoted enlisted airmen included 1,289 staff sergeants, 788 technical sergeants, 487 master sergeants, 97 senior master sergeants and 51 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.
For both 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. This 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 who pinned on in January can be found here, and the enlisted list can be found here.
