On June 28, 2024, the Jeanne M. Holm Center for Officer Accessions and Citizen Development activated the Air Force’s Warrant Officer Training School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.

The service's last warrant officer, Chief Warrant Officer James Long, retired from the 438th Transportation Squadron at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, in 1980, according to an Air Force history.

But the Air Force hasn’t had them for decades. When it was established as an independent service in 1947, there were about 1,200 warrant officers from the former Army Air Corps, representing a ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- Warrant officers are not going to become the quick-fix solution to ending the Air Force's pilot shortage crisis, the head of the service's personnel center said Monday ...

The Air Force has not seen warrant officers in their ranks in decades, Gen. Kaczor shared. “It was 1982 when the last active-duty Warrant Officer, CW4 Long retired,” she said. “And it was 1992 when ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - The United States Air Force announced a new warrant officer training school coming to Maxwell Airforce Base. Beginning in October, the air base will bring its first ...

After a 10-month sprint to resurrect a program that ended more than half a century ago, the Air Force graduated its first class of 30 new warrant officers Dec. 6 in a ceremony attended by service ...

Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Kaleth Wright hinted in an Aug. 15 interview with Air Force Times that the service was leaning against warrant officers, though he said at the time no ...

MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. (AFNS) — The Jeanne M. Holm Center for Officer Accessions and Citizen Development activated the Air Force’s Warrant Officer Training School in a ceremony on ...

The Air Force may begin training warrant officers this year, reviving a corps of skilled technical experts more than 60 years after the service eliminated the program.