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The Warrant Officer of the Royal Air Force (WORAF), previously known as the Chief of the Air Staff's Warrant Officer (CASWO), is the senior Royal Air Force (RAF) appointment for a warrant officer (WO), and therefore the most senior non-commissioned appointment in the RAF. [1]
Nor do they command any seniority within or over members of the regular or reserve Royal Air Force. The senior warrant officer in the RAF Air Cadets is called the Warrant Officer of the Royal Air Force Air Cadets (WORAFAC) (formerly the Commandant Air Cadets Warrant Officer (CACWO)) and holds an equivalent role to the Warrant Officer of the ...
Warrant Officer of the Royal Air Force: Warrant Officer: Flight Sergeant: Chief Technician: Sergeant: Corporal: Lance Corporal (RAF Regiment) Air Specialist (Class 1) Technician: Air Specialist (Class 1) Air Specialist (Class 2) Air Recruit: abbreviation WORAF WO FS Chf Tech Sgt Cpl LCpl AS1(T) AS1 AS2 AR Aircrew rank insignia: no equivalent
An RN warrant officer class 1 incorporated the former rank of fleet chief petty officer. There are now executive warrant officers, denoting the senior WO1s on ships and shore establishments. [12] [13] The Command Warrant Officers have been removed under the Royal Navy Command Transformation Programme. [14]
The Royal Australian Air Force rank of warrant officer (WOFF) is the RAAF's only rank appointed by warrant and is equivalent to both the Army's WO1 and the Navy's WO. The most senior non-commissioned member of the RAAF is the Warrant Officer of the Air Force (WOFF-AF), an appointment that is only held by one person at a time. [6]
Warrant Officer of the Royal Air Force (2023—) Warrant Officer Murugesvaran Subramaniam , is a senior Royal Air Force non-commissioned officer, who currently serves as the Warrant Officer of the Royal Air Force .
The station warrant officer (SWO, often pronounced as a word) is the senior warrant officer on a British Royal Air Force station. The SWO is responsible for discipline and is therefore comparable to the regimental sergeant major in a British Army unit. They are the station commander's link to the other ranks and their eyes and ears on the ...
Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton KCB serves as the Chief of the Air Staff, the professional head of the Royal Air Force, alongside Air Marshal Paul Lloyd CBE, the Deputy Chief of the Air Staff. Warrant Officer Murugesvaran Subramaniam was appointed the senior Warrant Officer of the RAF in April 2023.