10 USC § 9225 - Rank: warrant officers

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identifier: "/us/usc/t10/s9225"
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title: "10 USC § 9225 - Rank: warrant officers"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "9225"
section_name: "Rank: warrant officers"
chapter_number: 925
chapter_name: "RANK AND COMMAND"
part_number: "II"
part_name: "PERSONNEL"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 530, § 8575; renumbered § 9225, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 806(b)(7), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1832.)"
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# § 9225. Rank: warrant officers

Warrant officers rank next below second lieutenants and rank among themselves within each warrant officer grade under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Air Force.

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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 530, § 8575; renumbered § 9225, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 806(b)(7), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1832.)

| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 8575 | 10:593 (less 1st sentence). | Aug. 21, 1941, ch. 384, § 4 (less 1st sentence), 55 Stat. 653; May 29, 1954, ch. 249, § 19(e), 68 Stat. 167. |

10:593 (2d sentence) is omitted as executed. The words “within each warrant officer grade” are inserted for clarity, since  covers rank between warrant officers in different warrant officer grades. The words “they shall take precedence” are omitted as surplusage.

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018— renumbered  as this section.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2018 Amendment

Amendment by  effective , with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see , set out as a note preceding .