Personnel OFFICER PROMOTION, CONTINUATION …

1 BY ORDER OF THE AIR FORCE INSTRUCTION 36-2504. SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE 9 JANUARY 2003. Incorporating Through Change 5, 19 October 2007. Certified Current 22 January 2010. Personnel OFFICER promotion , CONTINUATION . AND SELECTIVE EARLY REMOVAL IN THE. RESERVE OF THE AIR FORCE. COMPLIANCE WITH THIS PUBLICATION IS MANDATORY. ACCESSIBILITY: Publications and forms are available on the e-Publishing website at for downloading or ordering. RELEASABILITY: There are no releasability restrictions on this publication. OPR: HQ ARPC/XP Certified by: HQ USAF/RE.

2 (Brig Gen Ralph S. Clem). Supersedes AFI 36-2504, 20 September 2002. Pages: 93. This instruction provides guidelines and procedures for promotion , CONTINUATION , and selective early removal of Air National Guard of the United States (ANGUS) and United States Air Force Reserve (USAFR) commissioned officers not on the active duty list (ADL) to grades below lieutenant general (USAFR) and colonel (ANGUS). This instruction implements Title 10, United States Code ( ), Armed Forces, Sections 12641, 12643, 14301, 14314, 14311, 14502; Reserve OFFICER Personnel Manage- ment Act (ROPMA); Public Law 93-579, Privacy Act of 1974; Title 5, United States Code, Sections 552a affect this instruction.

3 Executive Order 9397, Numbering System for Federal Accounts Relating to Indi- vidual Persons and 10 , Section 8013 authorize collecting, using, disseminating, and maintaining the information. Air Force System of Records Notice F035 ARPC G applies. Send comments and sug- gested improvements on AF Form 847, Recommendation for Change of Publication, through channels, to HQ ARPC/XP, 6760 East Irvington Place #7500 Denver CO 80280-7500. SUMMARY OF CHANGES. The interim change establishing that any OFFICER requesting an accelerated promotion must meet the same vacancy requirements as officers meeting a position vacancy (PV) promotion board.

4 Officers meeting the PV promotion board, or officers requesting an accelerated promotion , must be in a valid and funded posi- tion that will remain on the Unit Manning Document for at least one year after the board's convening date. This change alters paragraphs , , and and now reads as follows: A bar ( | ) indicates a revision from the previous edition. Chapter 1 RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE SELECTION PROGRAM 7. Secretary of the Air Force (SAF).. 7. ANG/DP and HQ USAF/REP.. 7. Air Reserve Personnel Center (HQ ARPC).. 7. 2 AFI36-2504 9 JANUARY 2003.

5 MPFs.. 8. Commanders.. 8. Senior Raters.. 9. Eligible OFFICER .. 9. Board President.. 9. Board Members.. 9. Board Recorders.. 10. Administrative Support Staff.. 10. Table Mailing Addresses for Correspondence.. 11. Chapter 2 promotion ELIGIBILITY AND INELIGIBILITY CRITERIA 12. Program Objectives.. 12. Transition Period.. 12. Promoting USAFR Second Lieutenants.. 12. Eligibility Criteria and Restrictions.. 12. Purpose of the PV Program.. 14. Vacancy Determination.. 14. Eligibility Criteria.. 14. Identifying Eligible Officers.. 15. Ineligible Officers.

6 15. Nominating Officers To Fill Vacancies.. 16. Table promotion Eligibility Criteria .. 16. Table Deleted. Refer to Table .. 17. Table USAFR Competitive Categories .. 17. Chapter 3 ORGANIZATION OF THE SELECTION PROGRAM 18. Convening of Selection Boards.. 18. Selection Board Composition.. 18. Chapter 4 CONDUCTING THE BOARD 20. Program Objectives.. 20. Rules Governing All Boards.. 20. Oaths Administered to Members and Recorders of Selection Boards.. 20. Instructing Boards.. 20. AFI36-2504 9 JANUARY 2003 3. Communications With Boards.. 21. Information Provided to Selection Boards.

7 21. Letters to Selection Boards.. 22. Scoring Records.. 22. Using the Scoring Scale.. 23. Conducting Trial Runs.. 23. Resolving Splits.. 23. Establishing the Cut Line.. 24. Resolving the Gray Area.. 24. Establishing a Recommended List.. 24. Identifying "Show Cause" Records.. 24. Disclosing Board Recommendations.. 24. Preparing Board Reports.. 24. Chapter 5 POST-BOARD ACTIONS 26. Approving Board Reports.. 26. Board Recorders' Responsibilities.. 26. promotion Secretariat Division Responsibilities (HQ ARPC/DPJ) .. 26. Releasing Board Information.

8 26. Removing an OFFICER from a Board Report.. 26. Announcing Board Results.. 27. Notifying Officers Selected for promotion .. 27. Determining Order of Seniority on the RASL.. 27. Notifying Officers Not Selected for promotion .. 28. Failure of Selection for promotion .. 28. Effect of Twice Failing promotion to Captain, Major, or Lieutenant Colonel.. 29. Administering promotion Orders.. 29. Date of Rank.. 30. CONTINUATION and Selective Early Removal Board Results.. 30. Table Publishing and Recording promotion Orders and Federal Recognition Orders.

9 30. Table Date of Rank.. 31. 4 AFI36-2504 9 JANUARY 2003. Chapter 6 promotion SPECIAL ISSUES 33. Missing Officers.. 33. Posthumous Promotions.. 33. Requirement for Baccalaureate Degree.. 33. Transfer of promotion from the ADL to the RASL.. 33. Accelerated promotion .. 34. promotion Procedures for USAFR AGRs.. 34. ANG and USAFR officers are eligible to compete for position vacancy .. 34. Chapter 7 PROPRIETY OF promotion 36. What is a Propriety of promotion Action.. 36. When to Initiate.. 36. Who Initiates a Propriety of promotion Action.. 36. How to Initiate a promotion Propriety Action.

10 36. Involuntary Delay.. 37. Recommending a Second Lieutenant Not Qualified for promotion (NQP).. 38. Recommending an OFFICER Above the Grade of Second Lieutenant NQP.. 39. Removing an OFFICER from a Recommended List.. 39. Table Processing Propriety of promotion Actions.. 40. Chapter 8 VOLUNTARY DELAY AND DECLINATION OF promotion 51. Purpose.. 51. Making Application for Delay.. 51. Consequences of an Approval of a Delay in promotion .. 51. Consequences of Disapproval of a Delay in promotion .. 52. Length of Delay.. 52. End of Delay Period.. 52.