Enlisted Career

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• Enlisted Career
• Progression

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Overview

• Up Grade Training (UGT)
• Professional Military Education (PME)
• Evaluations
• Promotions

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UGT Responsibilities

• Your Unit Training Manager
• Advises/manages unit UGT program
• Your Supervisor
• Plans and schedules UGT
• Trainee (you)
• Achieves and maintains necessary knowledge and
  qualifications

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Career Development Courses (CDCs)

• Supervisor or Training Manager requests CDCs
• Supervisor or Training Manager requests course
  exam
• Schedule testing at local test control office

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Questions?
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Overview

• Up Grade Training (UGT)
• Professional Military Education (PME)
• Evaluations
• Promotions

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General Information

• PME courses available by both correspondence and
  in-residence (except CMSgt Leadership Course)
• Order your PME courses through your Training
  Manager
• PME ribbon only awarded for in-residence

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General Information

• Students allowing course to expire by
  non-participation incur a MANDATORY 1 year
  restriction to re-enroll
• But may apply for in-residence
• Students disenrolled voluntarily or for course
  failure incur a MANDATORY 6 month restriction to
  re-enroll

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Airman Leadership SchoolNCO and Senior NCO
Academies

• Airman Leadership School
• SrA with 4 yrs service
• Promotion to SSgt
• NCO Academy
• TSgt or SSgt with 8 yrs service
• Promotion to MSgt
• SNCO Academy
• MSgt
• Promotion to SMSgt
• MSgt cant be assigned to E-8 position w/o SNCO
  Academy

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CMSgt Leadership Course

• In-Residence only
• 8 academic days to include 1 Saturday
• Gunter AFB AL
• For newly selected CMSgts, must attend prior to
  pinning on CMSgt

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Questions
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Overview

• Up Grade Training (UGT)
• Professional Military Education (PME)
• Evaluations
• Promotions

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Components of Enlisted Evaluation System (EES)

• Performance Feedback
• Enlisted Performance Report (EPR)

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Performance Feedback

• Initial
• Within 60 days of beginning supervision
• Midterm
• Annually, starting 12 months after initial
• Upon request
• Within 30 days of the ratees request

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New AF Evaluations

• Enlisted Evaluation System
• AF Form 910, AB thru TSgt
• AF Form 911, MSgt thru CMSgt
• AF Form 931, Feedback for AB thru TSgt
• AF Form 932, Feedback for MSgt thru CMSgt

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Why Change?

• Improve Documentation of Performance
• Focus evaluators on specific performance factors
• Remove areas of little value
• Ratee Acknowledgement
• Physical FitnessWarrior Ethos
• Less Cumbersome Process
• Digital Signature
• Electronic Flow

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Key Changes

• Fitness
• An important element in the success of our
  expeditionary Air Force complements increased
  focus on fitness
• Rated as Meets, Does Not Meet, or Exempt
• Meets score of 75 or greater
• Does Not Meet score less than 75
• Referral report requires comment
• Commander can request 59 day extension to retest
• Forward requests to AFRC A1 for approval
• Exempt Exempt from ALL four components of the
  test

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Key Changes

• Digital Signature
• Improves processing time, allowing electronic
  flow
• Facilitates processing in a geographically
  separated areas supports expeditionary Air
  Force and warrior ethos
• Applied using CAC
• Exceptions (must be pen/ink) referral reports,
  no CAC, or no CAC access
• Ratee Acknowledgment
• Rater will conduct face to face feedback before
  ratee signs
• If geographically separated, conduct via phone or
  e-mail
• Ratees signature acknowledges
• Feedback was conducted in conjunction with the
  evaluation close out

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Processing Procedures

• Wet Signature
• Routed via locally established process
• Referral reports
• At least one evaluator does not have a CAC
• At least one evaluator does not have access to a
  CAC enabled computer
• Other exceptions to this policy are submitted to
  ARPC/DPBR
• MPF/CSS sends final report to ARPC
• Make a copy and stamp or type "Certified True
  Copy" on the copy, scan the copy and attach it to
  vPC-GR
• Obtaining final copy
• Once report is processed by ARPC the final copy
  will be in ARMS

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Requirements for EPR
Type of Report Active/IDT Action Being
Taken Required Points Req
Biennial 16
Points 2 Years Since Last Report
CRO 16 Points Change of Reporting
Official Directed by HAF 0 Points
HAF/Commander
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Final Reviewer on EPRMilitary and GS
Grade Final
Reviewer NCO MSgt and
above or
GS-7 and above SNCO Major and
above or
GS-12 and above
Shell not required to prepare EPR
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Final Reviewer on EPR NSPS

Grade Final
Reviewer (Supervisory) NCO
YC-1, YF-1, YJ-1, or
YN-1
SNCO YC-2, YF-2, YJ-2, or YN-2

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Enlisted Stratification/Senior Rater
Endorsement Update

• Stratification only for MSgt SMSgt
• State as numerator/denominator, including all in
  rank
• Evaluator stratifies only at his/her level
• Gp/CC use only in Gp
• Examples
• 2 of 10 MSgts
• 1 of 5 SMSgts
• Senior Rater endorsement requires SNCOA CCAF
• Minimum criteria does not guarantee automatic
  endorsement

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Your Involvement

• Know when your report and feedback are due
• Keep track of duties performed
• It is vital to provide inputs to your supervisor

Your responsiblity-- be involved
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Questions
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Overview

• Up Grade Training (UGT)
• Professional Military Education (PME)
• Evaluations
• Promotions

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Enlisted Stratification/Senior Rater
Endorsement Update

• Stratification only for MSgt SMSgt
• State as numerator/denominator, including all in
  rank
• Evaluator stratifies only at his/her level
• Gp/CC use only in Gp
• Examples
• 2 of 10 MSgts
• 1 of 5 SMSgts
• Senior Rater endorsement requires SNCOA CCAF
• Minimum criteria does not guarantee automatic
  endorsement

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Enlisted Promotions

• Promotions Changes
• Promotion Cycle
• Unit Vacancy Promotions
• Extended Promotion Program
• Promotion Enhancement Program (PEP)

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Some Reasons for Non-recommendation for
Promotions

• Unsatisfactory participation
• Has UIF
• Has not been assigned to position for 6 months
• Supervisor determines more growth is needed
• Not meeting Fitness Standards

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Minimum Requirements

• TIG Enl Svs Sat Svs PME
  SKILL
• SSGT 12 mos 4 yrs
  Airman 5-level
• Leadership
• School (or
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  equivalent)
• TSGT 18 mos 5 yrs N/A
  7-level
• MSGT 24 mos 8 yrs 8 yrs
  NCO Academy 7-level
• SMSGT 24 mos 10 yrs 11 yrs
  Senior NCO 7-level
• Academy
• CMSGT 24 mos 10 yrs 14 yrs COC/CLC
  9-level

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Unit Vacancy Promotions

• Meet minimum requirements
• Must occupy higher grade position
• Supervisor recommendation
• Unit Commander approval of recommendation

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Extended Promotion Program

• Promotion to TSgt only
• Meet minimum requirements and have 16
  satisfactory years toward retirement
• Supervisor recommendation
• Commander approval
• ARPC updates MILPDS and
• publishes orders

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Promotion Enhancement Program (PEP)

• For well-deserving outstanding performers
  demonstrating great potential for the next higher
  grade, who are blocked for promotions under Unit
  Vacancy
• Whos eligible
• SSgt-SMSgt
• For promotions TSgt to CMSgt
• Reserve Unit, IMA and PIRR (Cat E)

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Promotion Enhancement Program (PEP)

• How
• Supervisor completes recommendation package
• Wing completes 1st Indorsement to NAF
• NAF completes 2nd Indorsement to Board
• When
• SMSgt/CMSgt Boards are held in September
• Promotion dates are 1 October

For CMSgt, pending completion of all promotion
requirements
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PEP Promotion Results
September 2008 Selected
CMSgt 2 Unit SMSgt 2
Unit / 1 IMA MSgt 1 (only IMA
results) TSgt 5 (only IMA
results)
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Reserve Service Commitment

• Top Three enlisted promotions
• Before being considered for promotion, must be
  able to obtain 24 months retainability
• Once selected, requires a commitment to Selected
  Reserve
• Must sign a 2 year commitment

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Questions