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Air Force completes another year of enlisted promotion test production

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  • Air Education and Training Command Public Affairs
RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas --  The Air Force has completed more than forty years of enlisted promotion test production.

From June 2009 through the end of May 2010, Air Force officials wrote 244 unique promotion tests for the 2011 enlisted promotion testing cycle supporting the Weighted Airman Promotion System and the United States Air Force Senior Noncommissioned Officer Promotion System.

"Today's Air Force continues to write fair, valid, credible, and relevant promotion tests," said Mr. Dwayne Hafer, the Air Force's promotion testing expert. "Last year, 108,246 Airman tested for promotion. We anticipate similar numbers for the upcoming testing cycle which begins this December."

"Beginning the next testing cycle, we have several changes we're implementing," according to Mr. Hafer. "The Weighted Airman Promotion System Catalog (WAPS) has been renamed to the Enlisted Promotions References and Requirements Catalog as it lists all study sources for both WAPS and United States Air Force Supervisory Exam examinees, and special instructions for test control officers," said Hafer.

Also, the next AFPAM 36-2241, Professional Development Guide, will be dated 1 October 2011, not July as in previous years.

For more information about the Professional Development Guide and promotion test development, production, and delivery, please go to: https://www.omsq.af.mil