Deployment history to be removed from promotion briefs

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  • By Richard Salomon
  • Air Force Personnel Center Public Affairs
RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas --  Air Force officials here recently announced that 45-day deployment history data will be deleted from duty qualification briefs for officer selection and preselection and from senior noncommissioned officer evaluation briefs.

This total-force initiative will apply to all active-duty members, Reserve and Guard personnel.

"These changes will impact management level reviews, as well as officer and enlisted central selection boards," said Lt. Col. John Giles, chief of promotions and evaluations at the Pentagon.

The deployment data will be removed from senior NCO evaluation briefs with the February 2009 senior master sergeant promotion board. It will also be removed from the June 2009 lieutenant colonel (line of the Air Force) and medical service corps promotion boards when the system modifications are complete.

For the Reserve, the change will go into effect with the April 2009 (chaplain, line of the Air Force judge advocate general) major and lieutenant colonel board. For the Guard, the change will occur with the colonel's Federal Recognition Review Board that convenes in March 2009.

"Many factors have led to the recent change in policy, especially since deployments now take many forms across the Air Force," Colonel Giles said.

In addition to "traditional" deployments, such as long-term deployments to the area of responsibility, some career fields such as space and missile and unmanned aircraft system operators do not typically deploy but provide daily support operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom.

In addition, many global mobility Airmen, as well as Guard and Reserve Airmen, do not spend 45 consecutive days in the AOR (a minimum requirement for documentation), but often deploy for more than 45 cumulative days within a calendar year.

"All of these are valid and important deployments, but they are documented elsewhere in officer selection records and senior enlisted selection records," Colonel Giles said.

This documentation includes decoration citations, bullets on officer and enlisted performance reports, promotion recommendation form statements, letters to officer promotion boards and more.

For more information, call the Air Force Contact Center at 800-616-3775. 

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