NEW INITIATIVES AIM TO STEM WARRANT OFFICER SHORTAGE
Warrant officer pilot
Photo by: U.S. National Guard/Master Sgt. Becky Vanshur
Wed, 02/16/2022 - 06:57
Seeking to stem a growing shortage of warrant officers across the force, the Army has rolled out several initiatives aimed at retaining the technical knowledge and skills found in the NCO and warrant officer corps.
Managing talent across the force is a key initiative for the Army, as it works to better find the right people for the right jobs.
Warrant officers account for about 3% of the Army, and about 600 warrant officers retire from active duty each year, said Chief Warrant Officer 5 Rick Knowlton, the senior warrant officer adviser for the Army Talent Management Task Force.
“If you just take 600 and multiply that by at least the 20 years of experience they have, that's 12,000 years of experience that we could potentially connect with jobs in the [National] Guard or the [Army] Reserve,” Knowlton said Feb. 15 during a Noon Report webinar hosted by the Association of the U.S. Army.
https://www.ausa.org/news/new-initiatives-aim-stem-warrant-officer-shortage
