The Air Force on Monday acknowledged a human error involving an outdated test answer key corrupted this year's technical sergeant selection process, forcing officials to revoke 135 promotions and award those slots to other troops who rightfully earned them.The error affected only the service's security forces career field, where officials rescored all 2,285 eligible Airmen after discovering an outdated scoring key had been used on the Specialty Knowledge Test."We owe it to those affected to address it immediately," Chief Master Sgt.of the Air Force David R.
Wolfe said in a statement."This is going to be hard for everyone impacted."After rescoring all 2,285 eligible Airmen, the Air Force determined that 451 previously selected Airmen would keep their promotions while 135 others no longer met the cutoff score.
Another 135 Airmen who were initially passed over will instead receive the promotions after officials rescored every eligible test.99-YEAR-OLD WWII VETERAN AWARDED PURPLE HEART AFTER WAITING MORE THAN 80 YEARSA pair of airman watch as the U.S.Air Force Thunderbirds sore over March Air Reserve Base in Riverside on Friday, Apr.
21, 2023 in preparation for the 2023 Southern California Air Show.(MediaNews Group via Getty Images)Air Force officials said the error was discovered after the promotion list was released and an enlisted promotions team member at the Air Force Personnel Center identified the outdated scoring key.
Officials described the mistake as an isolated and unprecedented human error, adding that no other Air Force specialty codes were affected.Ground crew tend to a US Air Force C-130 military transport aircraft at RAF Fairford in Fairford, UK, on Tuesday, March 17, 2026.US diesel rose above $5 a gallon for the first time since December 2022 as the war in Iran continued to disrupt supplies, placing further pressure on broad swaths of the world’s largest economy.
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