Sixth-generation Durango native, Jared Thompson was recently promoted to chief warrant officer 5. Thompson has been an experimental test pilot for the Aviation Flight Test Directorate since 2016, and with this promotion is now the senior warrant officer at Redstone Test Center.
Chief warrant officer 5 is the highest warrant officer rank in the Army, and Thompson is one of only five experimental test pilots holding this rank.
Thompson’s wife, Josephine, was also promoted, achieving the rank of colonel. With this promotion, Josephine Thompson is the active Army’s second most senior MEDEVAC acquisitions officer.
