August 8, 2014
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Volume 38, number 31
USecAF visits Airmen
Photo by Airman 1st Class Jordan Castelan
Staff Sgt. Christopher Spratt, 721st Aerial Port Squadron cargo processing supervisor, explains 721st APS capabilities to Under Secretary of the Air Force Eric Fanning, Wednesday on Ramstein. Fanning toured the KMC area during a multi-day stay viewing multiple aspects of the strategic capabilities Ramstein enables.
Air Force to change enlisted evaluations, promotions WASHINGTON — Air Force officials announced a series of sweeping changes to the Enlisted Evaluation System and Weighted Airman Promotion System July 31. The changes are intended to ensure the Air Force truly makes job performance the driving factor and will be implemented incrementally beginning in August 2014 and continuing through early 2016. Additional information and in-depth articles will be made available for each of the major program changes, prior to implementation, ensuring Airmen
are knowledgeable of and ready for the changes. “What gets measured gets done,” said Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James. “We want to make sure performance is the most important thing in every aspect of an Airman’s career, so the evaluation process is going to measure performance, and the promotion system is going to emphasize performance.” Weighted Airman Promotion System To do this, the Air Force plans to make several
modifications to the Weighted Airman Promotion System. The current WAPS calculation using the last five enlisted performance reports will be replaced by a model using a maximum of the last three EPRs, placing increased emphasis on an Airman’s most recent duty performance. Overall EPR points for WAPS will increase while time-in-grade and timein-service points will be reduced gradually over the next few years with the goal to remove them See PROMOTIONS, Page 3
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