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CWO pilot board
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http://www.npc.navy.mil/NR/rdonlyres/80B4ED92-654A-4B1F-8982-F49326DA3967/0/NAV06241.txt
The first batch. Should be interesting. I am looking forward to teaching/working with them. I am interested to see how this will evolve the future of my community. With a few of these guys around taking the "3rd assistant ground safety officer" jobs and flying their @sses off, I wonder where this will take JOPA in the next decade or so.
WOW. That is fvcking awesome. I cant wait to work with these guys. I view them as the cream of the crop to have been selected for the program. Also, my dad was a CWO4 so I may have a biased opinion. Nonetheless, its gonna be exciting to be working with the Navy's first CWO naval aviators. Wait, we didnt have Warrant aviators in the past, did we?
My grandfather retired as a CWO-2 and he was a pilot during WW II. I'm not sure if he was a CWO during the war or not though. I just know he never wanted to be an officer. 
Concur, great programm.
Royal Netherlands Navy killed that programm in the 80s as the majority of the flightcrew o/b airframes were officers while the planecommander could be enlisted. Strange situations arose on outstations where the pilots had to sleep on bunks with the enlisted and the most junior warfareofficers were able to enjoy themselves in the officersmess, debriefing the flight without (a part of) the flightdeckcrew...
Royal Netherlands Navy killed that programm in the 80s as the majority of the flightcrew o/b airframes were officers while the planecommander could be enlisted. Strange situations arose on outstations where the pilots had to sleep on bunks with the enlisted and the most junior warfareofficers were able to enjoy themselves in the officersmess, debriefing the flight without (a part of) the flightdeckcrew...
Thisguy
Pain-in-the-dick
Not very far, I would suspect. I don't know what the end game goal is as to how many of these guys would be in each squadron, but it would surprise me if it was more than 2-3. Even if this program survives for 10 years, which I doubt, the number of them in sea-duty billets can't be that high, based on the number selected this FY.
Brett
Stubby
Ask the Chief
The Navy has said that the selection numbers are low because this is the pilot year for it. Presumably, if it works out, the selection numbers will increase. I must admit though, like you, I doubt the program will be adopted in earnest. I don't want to minimize the achievement of those selected... this is an outstanding and enviable achievement, but I suspect that soon it will go the way of enlisted pilots (and warrant pilots) of World War II. Something old farts talk about saying "Remember when...".
In the mean time... these guys get to live the dream!
Incidentally, we already have a few CWO NFO's in the VP community.
Yeah...this seems to be the consensus opinion around here. Too much institutional momentum going to see CWO's integrated in a major way. Not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing...but there it is.
Congrats to all selected...definitely a great opportunity!