Senior Noncommissioned Officer Ranks (E-7 through E-9) Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force (E-9S) Most airmen graduate basic military training with the rank of airman basic (E-1). An airman ...

In the Air Force the average service-wide active-duty time for promotion to the rank of Staff Sergeant, the Air Force equivalent for the Space Force Sergeant, is over four years. In the Air Force ...

Chief Master Sgt. Roger Towberman, near right, unfurls the new Space Force Flag in a White House ceremony May 15 with, from left, then-Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett, Chief of Space ...

The highest ranking enlisted Air Force ranks are Chief Master Sergeant through Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force. Commissioned ranks are generally the highest paid in the USAF, especially the ...