{"id":29447,"date":"2019-05-10T19:03:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T19:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/05\/10\/master-sergeant-promotion-rates-drop-after-2018-spike\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:52:15","slug":"master-sergeant-promotion-rates-drop-after-2018-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2019\/05\/10\/master-sergeant-promotion-rates-drop-after-2018-spike\/","title":{"rendered":"Master sergeant promotion rates drop after 2018 spike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Air Force has selected 4,733 enlisted airmen for promotion to master sergeant<\/a>, which represents 24.34 percent of the technical sergeants who were eligible to move up<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That selection rate represents a return to those typical for E-7<\/a>, after last year\u2019s spike to a 29.6 percent. Selection rates varied from 22.4 percent to 25.6 percent from 2015 to 2017, and often hovered around there in the years before the 2014 drawdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Air Force Personnel Center said the full list of selectees will be posted May 22, although commanders will be notified who was chosen starting May 15. That is so commanders can give airmen the good news themselves, no earlier than a day before the public release of the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\t