501st CSW Airmen selected for promotion to staff sergeant Published Aug. 1, 2013 501st Combat Support Wing Public Affairs RAF ALCONBURY, United Kingdom -- Twenty four members of the 501st Combat Support Wing were part of the more than 11,000 senior airmen notified they have been selected for promotion to staff sergeant Aug. 1. Those selected were: Donald Burke, 423rd Communications Squadron Paul Diaz, 422nd Communications Squadron Zachariah Grube, 420th Munitions Squadron Nikolaus Herold, 422nd Security Forces Squadron Carl Higgins Jr., 422nd Security Forces Squadron Katherine Johnson, 422nd Medical Squadron Carlson Joseph, 422nd Security Forces Squadron Kyle Knowlton, 422nd Security Forces Squadron Nicholas Lindquist, 422nd Communications Squadron Timothy Miller, 423rd Force Support Squadron Brandon Myers, 423rd Civil Engineer Squadron Daniel Postell, 421st Air Base Squadron Dallas Rodgers, 422nd Security Forces Squadron Jarod Ruud, 423rd Civil Engineer Squadron Jeremiah Sanders, 423rd Force Support Squadron Jeffrey Schultze, 421st Air Base Squadron Ebony Seraphin, 422nd Communications Squadron Matthew Sheeron, 423rd Communications Squadron Arthur Sherard Jr., 422nd Communications Squadron Ryan Smith, 420th Munitions Squadron Tyler Sowka, 420th Munitions Squadron Skylar Stodden, 423rd Civil Engineer Squadron Esteven Tamez, 421st Air Base Squadron John Walling, 423rd Communications Squadron The 11,212 selected represent 32.90 percent of the 34,078 eligible. The average score for those selected was 291.07. Selectees' average time in grade is 1.98 years and time in service is 4.51. The average enlisted performance report score is 131.84, and 0.98 is the average decorations score. Selectee average promotion fitness examination score is 64.77 and the average specialty knowledge test score is 63.48. Those selected for staff sergeant will be promoted according to their promotion sequence number beginning in September. Selections are tentative until the data verification process is complete, which is no later than 10 days after the promotion release date.