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Warrant officers comprise a relatively small but vital group of technicians and specialists who serve in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.
These Servicemembers ordinarily do not assume typical officer command responsibilities and their careers emphasize depth rather than breadth of experience, in contrast to commissioned officers.,
The status and duties of these experts, trainers, and specialty managers have grown and otherwise changed since their grades were established around 1920. Today, they can be found advancing within military careers
such as aviation, physicians' assistant, nuclear weapons, and administration.Although some warrant officers may enter directly from civilian life (e.g., helicopter pilots), most warrant officers previously
were in the upper enlisted ranks. In FY 1997, 1,234 warrant officer accessions were added to the force and the overall total force of warrant officers on active duty stood at 15,225. Table 4.16 presents
gender and race/ethnicity statistics on FY 1997 warrant officers. They are overwhelmingly male (94 percent) but have more "generous" minority representation levels than commissioned officers.
Blacks, in particular, are more highly represented among warrant officers, accounting for 15 percent of active duty warrant officers (in contrast to 8 percent of commissioned officers). Appendix Tables B-44 and B-45
provide a glimpse of warrant officer accessions and the corps of warrant officers on active duty by gender and race/ethnicity.
| Table 4.16. FY 1997 Active Component Warrant Officer Accessions and Officer
Corps, by Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Service* (Percent) |
| Race/Ethnicity and Gender |
Army |
Navy |
Marine Corps |
DoD |
| ACTIVE COMPONENT WARRANT OFFICER ACCESSIONS |
| White |
66.7 |
76.9 |
73.9 |
69.0 |
| Black |
23.4 |
21.7 |
16.6 |
22.1 |
| Hispanic |
4.7 |
0.0 |
8.0 |
4.7 |
| Other |
5.2 |
1.4 |
1.5 |
4.1 |
| Male |
88.2 |
97.2 |
96.5 |
90.6 |
| Female |
11.8 |
2.8 |
3.5 |
9.4 |
| Total
|
100.0 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
| ACTIVE COMPONENT WARRANT OFFICER CORPS |
| White |
75.8 |
79.2 |
78.8 |
76.6 |
| Black |
14.8 |
14.2 |
13.1 |
14.5 |
| Hispanic |
4.5 |
1.5 |
6.4 |
4.4 |
| Other |
4.8 |
5.1 |
1.7 |
4.5 |
| Male |
93.8 |
94.8 |
93.4 |
93.9 |
| Female |
6.2 |
5.2 |
6.6 |
6.1 |
| Total
|
100.0 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
Columns may not add to total due to rounding.
* The Air Force does not have warrant officers.
See also Appendix Tables B-44
(Warrant Officer Accessions and Officers by Gender) and B-45 (Warrant Officer Accessions and Officers by Race/Ethnicity). |
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