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Dec. 14, 2023
Senior Airman Below the Zone in-person panels are back!

Team Maxwell-Gunter re-established in-person panels for Airman 1st Class promoting to Senior Airman under the Senior Airman Below the Zone program, August 2023.
Jan. 12, 2021
Maxwell Airmen change BTZ packages, ensuring non-biased promotions

Staff Sgt. Alexcia Tubbs and Senior Airman Micaella Trinidad Howard proposed the idea to “sanitize” the senior airman below-the-zone packages by removing names, race, ethnicity, unit and gender from the packages to eliminate any subconscious bias in the scoring process.
May 8, 2020
Team XL has new Senior Airman BTZ: Airman 1st Class Joquetta K. Rolle

Col. Lee Gentile, 47th Flying Training Wing commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Robert L. Zackery III, 47th Command Chief, present Airman 1st Class Joquetta K. Rolle, a 47th Civil Engineer Squadron firefighter, with her Senior Airman Below-the-Zone certificate on May 8, 2020, at Laughlin Air Force

Senior Airman Below the Zone in-person panels are back!