The Air Force is making it easier for career enlisted Airmen to retrain into a different specialty, following similar changes it made earlier this year for first-term service members. The Noncommissioned Officer Retraining Program (NCORP), for Airmen on their second or any subsequent term of enlistment, ...
The Air Force selected just 9,000 senior airmen for promotion to staff sergeant this year for a 17.4 percent promotion rate—numbers unseen since the years following the Cold War.
Professional military education must better prepare Airmen for real-world warfighting scenarios, commander of Air Education and Training Command Lt. Gen. Brian S. Robinson said at AFA's Air, Space & Cyber Conference. The Air Force's new educational approach aims to create combat leaders more coherently and ...