AF Clarifies EPR Policy

While many supervisors and senior NCOs looked to completion of the Senior NCO Academy and a Community College of the Air Force degree as criteria for consideration of a senior rater endorsement for promotion to senior and chief master sergeant, no official policy existed. The new policy requires members to have Senior NCO Academy completion, correspondence or in-residence, and any CCAF degree for senior rater endorsement eligibility. Implementation dates will be for the calendar year 2007 chief master sergeant and calendar year 2008 senior master sergeant promotion cycles. In addition, stratification statements will be allowed only on EPR’s of master sergeants and senior master sergeants who are time-in-grade promotion eligible for senior rater endorsement. A stratification statement will be defined in quantitative terms, such as “No. 1 of 178 master sergeants in the wing.” On chief master sergeant EPRs, evaluators will focus comments on future job recommendations.