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Air Force Discovers Scoring Error, Revises E-6 Promotion List | Air & Space Forces Magazine
Officials said 135 promotions were revoked after a mistaken answer key changed the cutoff score for 2,285 eligible airmen.
- The U.S. Air Force rescinded 135 technical sergeant promotions Tuesday after discovering an outdated answer key fundamentally corrupted the 26E6 promotion cycle, affecting only the security forces career field.
- An enlisted promotions team member discovered 27 Specialty Knowledge Test questions were graded incorrectly due to human error, not artificial intelligence, prompting officials to re-score 2,285 eligible airmen.
- While the total quota of 586 promotions remained unchanged, 451 airmen retained their original status; 135 individuals lost their selection and 135 new candidates qualified based on corrected scores.
- Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force David R. Wolfe stated, "We owe it to those affected to address it immediately," as the Air Force Personnel Center prepares a supplemental promotion release for the week of July 13.
- To prevent future failures, the Air Force is strengthening internal procedures and implementing quality-assurance safeguards for grading and ranking systems to mitigate risks in the data-transfer and validation process.
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Air Force Discovers Scoring Error, Revises E-6 Promotion List | Air & Space Forces Magazine
Scoring errors revealed in a review of recent Air Force promotions means that 135 security forces staff sergeants are getting belated good news about promotions—while 135 others are discovering they will not be promoted as previously told. An “outdated scoring key” used to grade 2026 E-6 promotion exams used to score the 3P071 security forces Specialty Knowledge Test, or SKT, was at fault. The error “led to 27 miskeys that fundamentally corrupt…
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