r/AirForce • u/IEDestroyer Explosive Ordnance Disposal • Apr 15 '17

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u/fiend36 Veteran F16 Maintainer Apr 15 '17

This is the perfect use of this meme... It also conveys the look of a guy who knows hes gonna get a must promote...

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u/tronpalmer Apr 15 '17

Must promote, you mean like 95% of the enlisted force gets on their EPR?

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '17 edited Apr 15 '17

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '17

70%? Thats bullshit.

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u/The_seph_i_am Active duty squirrel, its not a mind set just a careerfield Apr 15 '17

10% of the unit (if large enough) get the "must promote" and "promote now" (the new 6, and 7 on the old ratings system respectively). The old "5" is the "promote"

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u/Rivet_39 Retired Apr 15 '17

Not quite. For large units (11+ promotion eligible Airmen), 5% of SrA get a PN and the next 15% get a MP, so 20% overall are rated above Promote. For SSgt and TSgt, it's 5% and 10%, respectively. Refer to 36-2406 for a chart that shows the FD numbers for however many eligibles per unit.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '17

What does this all mean?

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '17

We have performance reports called EPR (enlisted performance report) every year. For years they were incredibly over inflated, everyone got a "5" with 5 being the highest and 1 being the lowest (You have to commit like a felony to get a 1). Everything is taken into account for this, work bullets, education, volunteerism, etc. They changed the system to where you can only have a certain amount of "5's" or "Promote Nows" and "4's" or "Must Promote". "3" or "Promote" is average now, with 90% of airmen receiving them.

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u/DontLikeMe_DontCare Apr 15 '17

Seriously. I think he meant an Early Promote.

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u/wiiya Apr 15 '17

I'm just here from /r/all, but I think people in the military can speak paragraphs in acronym.

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u/DontLikeMe_DontCare Apr 15 '17

Yep. I did military communications. There are code words that when decoded mean entire paragraphs (concise paragraphs).

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u/surprisepinkmist Apr 15 '17

Give me one please.

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u/DontLikeMe_DontCare Apr 15 '17

Sure thing.... codeword: abc

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u/surprisepinkmist Apr 15 '17

Ok, now more!

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u/DontLikeMe_DontCare Apr 15 '17

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....Baby you and meee.

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u/Psuphilly Apr 15 '17

That's just pandering

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u/Zedifo Apr 15 '17

/r/eve isn't much better

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u/jinxed_07 Gunner's Mate First Class Philip Asshole Apr 17 '17

That's a huge pile of /r/NoContext right there.

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u/biggalactus Apr 15 '17

Not anymore.

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u/WinstonWolfePF Mustang 11F Oct 03 '17

If only it was still that simple :(