{"id":38357,"date":"2024-02-07T23:15:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T23:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2024\/02\/07\/air-force-may-bring-back-warrant-officers-to-boost-technical-expertise\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:17:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:17:33","slug":"air-force-may-bring-back-warrant-officers-to-boost-technical-expertise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2024\/02\/07\/air-force-may-bring-back-warrant-officers-to-boost-technical-expertise\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force may bring back warrant officers to boost technical expertise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Air Force is considering bringing back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2017\/12\/26\/new-in-2018-will-the-air-force-bring-back-warrant-officers\/\">warrant officers<\/a>, nearly half a century after the service\u2019s last active duty airman to serve in the role retired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Air University memo, dated Jan. 26 and obtained by Air Force Times on Tuesday, outlines a plan to develop a training pipeline for non-aviation junior warrant officers no later than October. An Air Force official did not<b> <\/b>verify the document, saying the plans detailed in it could be subject to change, but said more details may come to light on the subject next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Used across the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, warrant officers are a highly trained class of technical experts who specialize in a single field, like intelligence or maintenance, and rank between the commissioned officers who lead units and the enlisted corps that forms the majority of the military\u2019s workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Re-establishing the warrant officer corps could offer the Air Force a fresh option for fostering and retaining technical talent, particularly in fields like cybersecurity that are seen as key to prevailing in future wars.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2024\/02\/07\/air-force-seeks-retirees-to-come-back-to-active-duty\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8228968.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Air Force seeks retirees to come back to active duty<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Up to 1,000 retirees can return to their former careers as the service seeks to plug a critical manning gap.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo give the [Air Force] a marked advantage in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2024\/01\/08\/us-air-force-logistics-officer-talks-basing-drones-in-the-pacific\/\">great power competition<\/a>, the service must examine new ways to develop and retain a highly capable, technologically capable corps of air-minded warfighters,\u201d the document said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The unverified memo details the launch of an initial class of 30 personnel at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2024\/02\/02\/maxwell-afb-activates-new-grey-wolf-training-unit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama<\/a>, which hosts Air University. Those newly minted junior warrant officers would deliver to the service \u201cthe foundational competencies and warrior ethos necessary to succeed as expert technicians in their core specialty,\u201d the memo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The end goal is to create a training pipeline that could deliver as many as 200 junior warrant officers and up to 50 senior warrant officers, from the grades of WO-2 through WO-5, each year, the document said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Candidates that enter the warrant officer selection process<b> <\/b>would need to hold the rank of staff sergeant, or E-5, or higher, the memo added. Prospective warrant officers could be drawn from across the active duty force, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/04\/06\/air-force-inches-closer-to-warrant-officers-could-they-fix-the-pilot-crisis\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Army-warrant-officers-helicopter.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Air Force inches closer to warrant officers: Could they fix the pilot crisis?<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Air Force is closing in on a new report on whether it should reinstate warrant officers for the first time in six decades.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall next week is expected to roll out the results of a monthslong review of the service\u2019s readiness to compete with and prevail against other world powers \u2014 China in particular \u2014 in future conflicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two sources with knowledge of the service\u2019s internal discussions said the return of warrant officers are part of that plan, as well as the start of a major effort to reorganize the Air Force to be more efficient and effective in daily operations and annual budgeting. The Air Force has declined to confirm details of the plan, which has fluctuated in recent weeks as senior leaders come to a consensus on the way forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnything related to [Kendall\u2019s] plans for reoptimizing for great power competition will be announced next week,\u201d the Air Force official wrote Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One source familiar with the Air Force\u2019s discussions told Air Force Times that warrant officers could replace enlisted cyber operators, roles for which the service has struggled to recruit and retain airmen. Cyber was not specifically mentioned in the Air University planning order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Air Force brought along about 1,200 warrant officers when it split from the Army in 1947 and began phasing them out when Congress created the ranks of senior master sergeant and chief master sergeant, or E-8s and E-9s, for each of the services. There were approximately 4,500 Air Force warrant officer authorizations when the service decided to end the role in 1959 because their jobs were deemed too inflexible to meet the Air Force\u2019s personnel needs, <a href=\"https:\/\/warrantofficerhistory.org\/WO_Prog_Other_Svc.htm\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Warrant Officer Historical Association.<\/a> The Air Force and Space Force are now the only military services without the role, though the idea of reviving it often resurfaces as a solution to the department\u2019s staffing woes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Air Force most recently considered relaunching warrant officers in 2018 as a way to remedy its longstanding<a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/04\/06\/air-force-inches-closer-to-warrant-officers-could-they-fix-the-pilot-crisis\/\"> pilot shortage<\/a>. But a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/09\/05\/rand-study-warrant-officer-pilots-would-hurt-retention-in-the-air-force-but-a-flying-only-track-might-help\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rand Corporation study released in August 2018<\/a> found that bringing back warrant officers and turning them into pilots would further harm retention because they could be lured away by more lucrative paychecks at commercial airlines. 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