Armed Forces News

Starting with Air Force active–duty promotion boards through

the rank of colonel in 2005, all self–initiated academic

education information, including bachelor’s degrees, will

be removed from the officer selection brief, officer

pre–selection brief, and duty qualification history brief

for line officers and officers in the judge advocate general

corps. Academic education information for chaplains and

health–profession officers will remain in applicable

promotion documents. The Air National Guard and Air Force

Reserve will implement the same procedures beginning with

boards convening after Jan. 1, 2006. Additionally, in a

change that applies to all officers regardless of promotion

category, a deployment history block displaying the last

six deployments in excess of 45 days since Sept. 11, 2001,

will replace the overseas duty history block. The assignment

history section will still reflect overseas duty and

information on officers sent to Air Force–sponsored

developmental education.