Deployed Airmen make rank, become NCOs Published Aug. 1, 2013 379th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs SOUTHWEST ASIA -- One hundred thirty-seven senior airmen were selected here for promotion to the rank of staff sergeant Aug. 1. According to Air Force Instruction 36-2618, "Enlisted Force Structure," staff sergeants are primarily their organization's highly skilled technicians with supervisory and training responsibilities. They must continuously strive to further their development as technicians, supervisors, and leaders through on- and off-duty professional development opportunities. This promotion cycle was competitive; of the 34,078 senior airmen who tested, only 11,212 were selected for promotion garnering a 32.9 percent AF-wide selection rate. The average score for those selected was 291.07. Selectees' average time in grade was 1.98 years and time in service was 4.51. The average enlisted performance report score was 131.84, and 0.98 was the average decorations score. Selectee average promotion fitness examination score was 64.77 and the average specialty knowledge test score was 63.48. The 379th Air Expeditionary Wing congratulates the following Airmen who were selected to promote to staff sergeant during the 13E5 promotion cycle: 379th Air Expeditionary Wing Bahja Jones Tabitha Webber 379th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron Ramon Aarons Richard Brooks Zachary Davidson Alex Desonnaville Sterling Deverter Darrin Dickenson Justin Turne Haley Craig Derek Hite Kenneth Johnson Charles Sweeney Jack Torres 379th Expeditionary Communications Squadron Jason Allard 379th Expeditionary Force Support Squadron Fatima Calisa Anahi Escobar Eugene Philipenko James Smoyer Rina Tatis Ricardo Thenor 379th Expeditionary Medical Group Leonard Tesoro Tanshanik Thompson 379th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron Michael Autry Xavier Brown Jonathen Browne Ira Calilung Mayra Colonsantiago Jonathan Gambrell Jennifer Golden Tori Latanya Heard Joshua Lee Hobson Timothy Phillips Luis Garcia-Medina 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron Zachary Darden Nathan Digges Scott Esler Michael Haig Kendra Hill-Daughton Najee Holland Jason Lemmond Rogelio Mares James Meissgeier Rebecca Ortiz Jason Reese Michael Richardson Taylor Sartor Crystal Smith Allen Jackson 379th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Robert Farris Roy Galindo John Gogolewski Christopher Graham Christopher Hudson Nicholas Krynock Gregory Levesque Ashley Lindsay Joshua McCalister Johnny McKinlay Alan Mixson Kendall Nelson Kyle Parrish Derek Reardon Bradley Skelton Kyle Vaught John Villarreal Michael Wells 379th Expeditionary Contracting Squadron Perry Rinato 379th Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron Alicia Freedman Kevin Krippner Logan Malaney Lucas Woods 379th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron Johnny Aros Joyce Ileen Bray James Cheatham Joshua Deyoung Pete Garcia Simon Sanchez Brandon Shelton Richard Woods Brandon Anderson Darryk Lazardo Raychell Goldsmith Joshua Lee Fritz 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron Lawrence Monahan 763rd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron Raymond Magden Daniel Majewski Shawn Martin Jeffrey Parkinson Nathan Porter Dustin Timmons Paul Zimmerman 71st Expeditionary Air Control Squadron Joshua Cogswell Ryan Judy Dean Moore Caitlin Nervik 7th Expeditionary Air Command and Control Squadron Eugene Menville 577th Expeditionary Prime BEEF Squadron Marcus Toney 8th Expeditionary Air Mobility Squadron Michael Collins Corrienne Copper Noel Echevarria Brett Kiser Williams McDevitt Alesha Medici Jeffrey Montgomery Milton Smith Timothy West Shaun Williams 9th Air Force Forces/A3 Ellen Henkemeyer 9th Air Force Forces/A2 Lionel Kress 9th Air Force Elements JIA Derek Moran Geoffrey Stirrup 609th Air Operations Center James Barzaga Joshua Joseph Jacob Joseph Jacob McCormick David Peets Scott Tucek 609th Air Communications Squadron Julian Bristol Anastasia Zhuravlyavo 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron Devin Lynch Curtis McWoodson Aron Peet Keith Valdez 17 ESPCS Terrell Felder 1 ESOW Leichty Marshall