Much of that time, it had used the rank to reward noncoms not qualified for commissions and to compensate former commissioned officers not needed in their old grades.īy the time the Army worked out an effective program for its warrant officers, the Air Force had given up. By the late 1950s, it had spent forty years trying to find a role for WOs. The Army, too, had had trouble with its warrant officer program. The only time the Air Force had made warrant officer appointments on a grand scale turned out to be a disaster. They rated a salute from airmen but were outranked by second lieutenants young enough to be their sons. They held jobs at the top of the enlisted career ladders but were counted as commissioned officers. In fact, the service had never really decided how warrant officers fit into the scheme of things. The Air Force’s official position was that it had no place for another rank sandwiched between enlisted and commissioned officer levels.
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