Originally Posted by
Gundriver64
Warrant Officer grades CW2-CW5 are commissioned ranks. So yes, one has to be a citizen. The WILL part of being a helo pilot first is no longer an absolute. The Army now has a fixed wing only track called "Fixed Wing for Life.
Cheers,
G
Strange that the US Citizenship requirement is not listed when looking up Warrant Officer Flight School requirements. But you are correct, if I look up the basic requirements of a Warrant Officer in general it is there.
As for the Fixed Wing for life, just before I got out there was a couple people that I knew got fixed wing as WO1, but as I recall they still went through IERW with no idea they would get FW before changing over. As they told the story there were also many classes that nobody got FW. They related it to getting Willie Wonka's Golden Ticket. I have been out 4 years now so things may be different.