Aviano Airmen selected for promotion to senior master sergeant Published March 10, 2011 31st Fighter Wing Public Affairs AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy -- Twelve master sergeants assigned to Aviano Air Base were selected for promotion to senior master sergeant March 10. Please join the 31st Fighter Wing in congratulating Aviano's newest Senior Master Sergeant selects. The following Master Sergeants were selected for promotion today. Please join these senior master sergeant selects during their promotion social scheduled for 4 p.m. Friday/March 11 at La Bella Vista Club. Air Force officials selected 1,274 of 12,378 eligible master sergeants for promotion to senior master sergeant for a selection rate of 10.29 percent. Those selected for senior master sergeant will be promoted according to their promotion sequence number beginning in April 2011. Josefina Babbitt Juancarlos Cueto Michael Edie Paul Ellis Jamie Kitchen Rodney Koonce Angela Newby Stacy Pearson Edward Peterson James Prior Christopher Soares Timothy Vickers