Originally Posted by
Scout
Army Info only! Not a jab at you Rickair but.......Warrant Officer Pilots in the Army are not NCO's, and are in fact Commissioned Warrant Officers. almost 90% of Helicopters are flown by Warrant Officers and the same for Fixed Wing Aircraft...currently the Army Fly's over 350 Fixed Wing aircraft. It all boils down to security clearance...actually I believe you can hold dual citizenship in the Army, but it may stop your from flying also. Times change....ask the Recruiter or go on line to goarmy.com and check out what you find. Then get a second (and third) opinion!
Alright. Gotta call you on a technical foul. Here's the quote from defense link.
Warrant officers hold warrants from their service secretary and are specialists and experts in certain military technologies or capabilities.
The lowest ranking warrant officers serve under a warrant, but they receive commissions from the president upon promotion to chief warrant officer 2. These commissioned warrant officers are direct representatives of the president of the United States. They derive their authority from the same source as commissioned officers but remain specialists, in contrast to commissioned officers, who are generalists. There are no warrant officers in the Air Force.
So indeed, there are non commisioned warrant officers. I know a technicality but still....
