The Air Force brought along about 1,200 warrant officers when it split from the Army in 1947 and began phasing them out when Congress created the ranks of senior master sergeant and chief master sergeant, or E-8s and E-9s, for each of the services. There were ...
The unverified memo details the launch of an initial class of 30 personnel atMaxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, which hosts Air University. Those newly minted junior warrant officers would deliver to the service “the foundational competencies and warrior ethos necessary to su...