Well, in an effort to get us back to promotion boards...
I sat through the Webinar on Officer Instructor and Recruiting Special Duty. Cliff notes:
CSAF intends to give guidance to promotion boards to give special consideration to instructor and recruiting duty, starting next year. Specifically, formal instruction - being an instructor in a line squadron doesn't count, but being an FTU or UPT instructor will.
They're doing boards to select people for recruiting, ROTC, USAFA, OTS, and Air University positions. Window opened back on April 9th and closes May 24th. If you don't want to compete, you can click a box that says "I don't intend to compete"...but your Senior Rater still has the ability to push you to the board.
Senior Raters will be required to pony up 15% of eligible officers (1Lt to Lt Col with 12 months on station). However, they can subtract T-coded officers from their total before nominating. The example they gave was two SRs with 140 officers. SR A has no T-codes - he nominates 21 officers. SR B has 40 T-codes - 140-40 = 100. 15% of 100 is 15 officers.
They intend to open these positions, on a limited basis, to rated officers. There are 500 total positions across the Air Force. 50 will go to rated officers, including ROTC instructor duty (not necessarily Det/CC). You MUST be through your first gate to be seriously considered (96 months).
Finally, if you want to compete for Det/CC, you need to have at least a line number to Lt Col. You must be pinned on prior to taking over the Det, typically late July/early August.
So, looks like my ROTC rant was just because I was a year ahead of my time.