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At least once per year, Air Force enlisted members are rated on their conduct, duty performance, leadership abilities, dress and appearance, and communicative abilities by their supervisors (and their supervisor's supervisor). The report is called an EPR, or Enlisted Performance Report.

The most important factor about this report is the overall rating, or "Promotion Recommendation," as this rating is converted to promotion points. Promotion ratings on the EPR range from "1," the lowest possible rating, to "5," the highest possible promotion recommendation rating.

When converting EPR ratings to promotion points, only reports for the last five years are used, not to exceed ten reports. The first step is to multiply each promotion-rating by it's "time-factor," the older a report is, the less it's worth in promotion points. The most recent report is multiplied by a time-factor of 50, the next oldest by a time factor of 45, etc ((50-45-40-35-30-25-20-15-10-5).

Once that's accomplished, the results are multiplied by 27. The results for all the reports are then added together, and the total is divided by the sum (adding together) of all of the time-factors used.

Here's an example: