The Air Force has combined the materials enlisted members use for reference and study for promotion into a single Professional Development Guide (PDG). The PDG will replace both the Promotion Fitness Examination and U.S. Air Force Supervisory Examination Study Guides — known as Volumes 1 and 2 of Air Force Pamphlet 36-2241 respectively. All ranks will receive the PDG, named AFP 36-2241. Airmen testing for promotion in the ranks of senior airman through technical sergeant will stop at designated areas in certain chapters and proceed to the next chapter. Master sergeants and senior master sergeants will have to study the entire pamphlet. Unit Weighted Airmen Promotion System monitors will release the PDG, which has an effective date of July 1. Senior master sergeants will receive it first because they are first to test for promotion. Master sergeants are next, then technical sergeants and below.
