A Warrant Officer is a highly trained and specialized expert who operates, maintains, administers, and manages the Army’s equipment, support activities, or technical systems throughout their entire career. This skill level is achieved by gaining progressive levels of expertise and leadership through extensive education and training in a single-specialty career, rather than pursuing increased levels of command and staff duty positions.
The Army Warrant Officer Corps comprises less than three percent of the total Army and accounts for approximately 25,000 men and women of the active Army and reserve components. Warrant officers are technical experts that manage and maintain increasingly complex battlefield systems. Although small in size, the responsibility level of a warrant officer is immense and only the very best will be selected to become Warrant Officers. They enhance the Army’s ability to defend our national interests, and to fight and win our nations wars.
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There are certain physical requirements and clearances that soldiers must meet before applying to become a warrant officer. Those candidates who successfully complete Warrant Officer Candidate School are appointed in the grade of Warrant Officer One. Promotions to Chief Warrant Officer Two and above are commissioned by the President and have the same legal status as their traditional commissioned officer counterparts.
The benefits of being an Army Warrant include extended career opportunities, worldwide leadership assignments, and increased pay and retirement benefits.
