According to Joint Forces Command officials, a program they created a year ago to place military members with a service different from their own at the three-star warfighting component level is paying off. In fact, they claim it has gotten “rave reviews.” JFCOM manpower official Charles Ridley explains that if USAF’s 12th Air Force needs an intelligence officer, the Joint Manpower Exchange Program may send the Southern Command component a Navy officer. So far, JMEP has 30 positions to work with and has filled 28. Officials expect to fill the last two slots by early October.
The Air Force Personnel Center announced that just 14.8 percent of eligible tech sergeants were selected for promotion to master sergeant in the 22E7 promotion cycle, marking the service’s lowest E-7 promotion rate since at least 2010. All told, 4,040 technical sergeants were selected to become master sergeants out of…