Promoting the Best Enlisted Leaders

<p>The current enlisted promotion system provides a fair and visible way for enlisted members to get promoted. However does this system promote the Air Force's best leaders into the Senior NCO ranks and does it promote them more quickly than lesser leaders? While the Weighted Airman's Promotion System does adequate job in this regard the system makes it difficult to distinguish exceptional leaders from average ones. Outstanding leaders do not receive the points-credit they deserve for top-tier performance. In addition some below average enlisted members who are not strong leaders make it into the Senior NCO ranks due to longevity and/or testing well. Modifications to the current system will alleviate these issues. Certainly the enlisted promotion systems of sister services prove instructive when considering possible changes to the Air Force system. Overall changing the WAPS points-allocation adding an E-7 operational board and increasing Stripes for Exceptional Performers allotments will make the necessary corrections to the system.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>