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The Marine Corps Needs Warrant Officer Pilots

By Gil Barndollar and Tyler Marchetti
April 2019


The Marine Corps, like the Navy and Air Force, is facing a massive shortage of pilots. The service is short a full quarter of its required aviators. The Corps now offers pilots bonuses of up to $210,000 to stay on active duty for another six years. More troubling, in 2017 the Marines announced that aviator captains passed over twice for promotion to major would be retained on active duty an additional 36 months unless they opted out. Yet the Marine Corps has thus far refused to pursue one remedy with a chance of success: creating warrant officer pilots.

Only one U.S. military service isn’t having pilot retention problems: the Army. As of late 2017, the Army was at 110 percent for pilot manning, though with some shortages at certain ranks. This despite flying nearly as many aircraft as the Air Force and over 1,000 more than the Navy and Marine Corps combined.

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2019/april/marine-corps-needs-warrant-officer-pilots

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