They are masking masters degrees again, starting with my majors board this December. I need one more class and I could have gotten "bachelor plus" marked on my personnel records, indicating at least 18 credit hours complete. Now I guess that info won't be visible to the board. Glad to know all my work was once again unnecessary. He was also saying that maybe the bachelor plus won't show, but a full degree would. I don't know how that would make any sense, but that's exactly why it might be true - can't use logic to figure out the Air Force.
(As background to this story, they unmasked advanced degrees 2 years ago for my year group (during my last deployment actually), giving us ~2.5 years to finish one in time for our board. Not a lot of time for active duty military during a war.)
Ostensibly, they masked degrees because they wanted people to focus on their primary jobs until later in their careers. The unmasking was because not enough people were getting degrees (Hmm, imagine all those folks being...busy...or something, from say, 2000 to 2006...
I'll have to do some research at AFPC, maybe Air Force Times.
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