So stay tuned . . . . . More Than Meets the Eye. What the AFNS has not discussed, however, may be important to many officers and airmen. Sec 205 is unexceptionable. However, AFPC positions take a different tact.
Officials acknowledge they used the wrong quota method which led to the shortfall.
Results of the fiscal 1999 Reserve major selection board were made public Aug. 28. Air Force Reserve personnel officials in the Pentagon explained that the disparity between the number of majors needed by the Reserve and the number actually selected for promotion is the result of using a percentage of the total number eligible rather than a fixed number to meet a desired target. The Reserve Officer Personnel Management Act, the public law that governs Reserve officer promotions, requires the secretary of the Air Force to set, prior to the convening of a promotion board, a maximum number of officers who can be selected for promotion. While the board does not have to use the full quota, it cannot exceed it. Reserve personnel specialists chose to use a percentage over a fixed number to meet its fiscal '99 quota because this appeared to be the best way to balance promotions among participating reservists, members of the Individual Ready Reserve, and those who were not promoted on the previous board.