Latest "Weighted Airman Promotion System" stories

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Jewel Favreau, assigned to the 97th Security Forces Squadron, fills out a promotion testing form on May 20, 2020 at Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma. (Tech. Sgt. Kenneth W. Norman/Air Force)

Air Force enlisted promotion tests to go paperless in January 2024

“We are finally, after years and years and years of trying to do this, getting rid of the Scantrons."

By Rachel S. Cohen

3 months ago

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Jewel Favreau, assigned to the 97th Security Forces Squadron, fills out a promotion testing form on May 20, 2020 at Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma. (Tech. Sgt. Kenneth W. Norman/Air Force)

Air Force to test enlisted airmen on good judgment in 2022

Senior airmen seeking promotion could see the new section as soon as March.

By Rachel S. Cohen

24 months ago

Enlisted airmen could soon take promotion tests online, leaders say

Nearly 90 staff sergeants' completed promotion tests recently went missing.

By Rachel S. Cohen

2 years ago

New in 2021: Rewarding experience in promotions — and the end of WAPS?

Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Joanne Bass is eyeing a series of changes to the enlisted personnel system.

By Stephen Losey

3 years ago

Supplemental promotions begin to make up for COVID-depressed staff sergeant cycle

Testing for staff sergeant promotion is continuing after COVID threw a wrench in this year's process.

By Stephen Losey

3 years ago

The list of senior master sergeant promotions is out

This is the first E-8 promotion cycle since the Air Force decided to drop WAPS testing for SNCOs.

By Stephen Losey

4 years ago

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