First Warrant Officer (1WO) is a Warrant Officer rank in the Singapore Armed Forces. It is senior to Second Warrant Officer but junior to Master Warrant Officer.
First Warrant Officers may be given appointments such as Battalion Regimental Sergeant Major. They may serve tours as instructors, or on various staffs. As comparatively senior warrant officers, they may be given appointments normally given to commissioned officers at such as Quartermaster at non-combat units or platoon commander at training units.
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—Charles Dickens (1812–1890)
“A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)