Only 17% of airmen were promoted to staff sergeant this month, marking the lowest promotion rate since at least 1996 as the service pushes to cut the number of noncommissioned officers in its ranks.

An airman poses for a photograph holding a technical sergeant stripe at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., March 1, 2024. (Mark Herlihy/Air Force) This story was updated at 4:30 p.m. Eastern on June 13 to ...

More than 1,700 airmen have made the cut for promotion to senior master sergeant, the service’s second-highest enlisted rank, the Air Force announced Thursday. Nearly 11.5% of master sergeants who ...

An Army initiative that alters how points are calculated for promotion to the ranks of sergeant and staff sergeant went into effect this month, giving soldiers a broader array of possibilities to ...