Airmen in 17 Air Force specialties will get a leg up for promotion this year in a move to fill manning shortfalls in their career fields. Airmen in the fields testing for staff, technical or master sergeant during the 2005 promotion cycle will be promoted at 1.2 times the Air Force average. Thus, if the Air Force average for a particular promotion is 15 percent, the critical skills would be promoted at a rate of 18 percent. Specialties are Loadmaster (1A2X1); Airborne Communications and Electronics Systems (1A3X1); Airborne Battle Management (1A4X1X); Airborne Cryptologic Linguist (1A8X1X); Air Traffic Control (1C1X1); Combat Control (1C2X1); Command Post (1C3X1); Aerospace Control and Warning Systems (1C5X1X); Space System Operations (1C6X1); Intelligence Applications (1N0X1); Imagery Analysis (1N1X1); Network Intelligence Analysis (1N4X1); Electronic Signals Intelligence Exploitation (1N5X1); Electronic Systems Security Assessment (1N6X1); Pararescue (1T2X1); Weather (1W0X1X); and F-16, F-117, RQ-1, CV-22 Avionics Systems (2A3X2).