| Branch | U.S. Air Force |
| Series | AFI |
| Publication date | 2026-07-02 (0.2 years ago) |
| Status | Current |
| Proponent / OPR | AF/A1 |
| Source of record | AF e-Publishing |
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This document has been revised and should be completely reviewed. Changes include Enlisted Professional Military Education (EPME) requirements, authorizes EPME promotion waivers by exception only, directs commanders to retain promotion lists for five years and updates to board membership. This publication is applicable to the AF including uniformed members of the Regular Air Force (RegAF), the Air Force Reserve (AFR), and the Air National Guard (ANG)
Publications state their own changes on page 1 — behind a PDF the official host will not serve to a search engine. This is that section, verbatim. It describes the edition above, not every historical change.
These Code of Federal Regulations references appear in AFI 36-2502 but are not in the current CFR — checked against the eCFR structure API. A part can vanish because it was removed or reorganised, and some references are simply mistyped in the source publication. Either way the pointer is dead: verify before relying on it, and check every publication affected.
| Functional community | Publications | Which ones |
|---|---|---|
| Operations | 2 | AFMAN 10-207 USAFE-AFAFRICA Sup, AFMAN 10-207 |
| Inspections & Special Management | 1 | AFI 90-301 AFRC Sup |
| Law | 1 | DAFI 51-202 |
4 publications in 3 other communities depend on this one, which Personnel owns. Each community inspects its own publications; a dependency that crosses communities is owned by nobody, which is why this list normally does not exist anywhere. Built from the publications' own citations, so it reflects what we have read.
If AFI 36-2502 changes, these are the documents that point at it. Extracted from the publications' own text, so it reflects what we have read, not a complete dependency map. Every publishing office validates its own document; nobody validates the seams between them.
Records in this branch carrying the same series and number — interim changes, guidance memoranda, and unit supplements. A copy stamped with one of these is a different document from the base publication.