The U.S. Army

Check it out! ‪@NASA‬ - National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s newest astronaut candidate U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 Joseph “Ben” Bailey!

Bailey, a decorated aviator and test pilot with more than 11 years of service, was one of only 10 people selected from a pool of over 8,000 highly qualified civilian and military applicants.

He will join the ranks of very few Soldiers who can also call themselves astronauts.

Learn More:
www.army.mil/article/288653/army_chief_warrant_off…

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@Gateship-1

So that’s where the warrant officers disappear to, huh, never would’ve guessed. Congratulations Chief 🎉

3 weeks ago | 556

@kaziiqbal7257

Warrant Officers will do anything to avoid morning PT! Congrats Chief, give us a good wave from up there!

3 weeks ago | 81

@earlhernandez1395

Chief!!!!! You make all Chief Warrant Officers proud!

3 weeks ago | 131

@MSAVHMP

I'm not even American and I'm happy for this guy ❤🇬

3 weeks ago | 3

@akairborne

Finally, someone gets the Army astronaut badge and AAFES will be complete.

3 weeks ago | 49

@amata415

Nice! Chief Warrant Officer too!

3 weeks ago | 101

@imbartman6622

I’ve heard of a warrant officer only once before in Space and There was a xenomorph there

3 weeks ago | 62

@Scravis

I’m not surprised because Chief Warrant Officers are usually pretty squared away people. All the CWOs in the Marines infantry look like GI Joe action figures & know everything in the school of infantry textbooks.

3 weeks ago | 9

@kevinh9110

This description doesnt even come close to doing him justice. For one, he is a Navy Test Pilot School graduate and has more than 2000 hours flying in over THIRTY types of rotary and fixed wing aircraft as a test pilot. And of course, he has an undergrad mech eng degree and grad systems engineering degree, latter from Naval Postgraduate School.

3 weeks ago (edited) | 7

@OnTheSpotsilver

This is a great loss for the army, but a great win for America 🇺🇸 💪 congratulations

3 weeks ago | 18

@maryellenlofts6254

Awesome! My father was a W4 in the military in the 1960s.

3 weeks ago | 2

@williamtolon6464

Congrats sir .

3 weeks ago | 37

@RobertMiner-cn6mb

Out fricking Standing, keep the faith fellow service brother.

3 weeks ago | 5

@danielcarlson800

Congrats, CWO-3 Bailey!!!!!!!! God Speed!!!!! 🚀

3 weeks ago | 3

@Swamp_coon

I’m an 11B with a fascination of the universe. This is so awesome.

3 weeks ago | 5

@GVSQ

Legend says he can teleport to the ground if there's an actual issue within his AoE, or he'll just beam some warrant wizardry down to fix SgtMaj's Yahoo E-Mail

3 weeks ago | 2

@wtstfire

Enlisted, never quite understood where Warrant Officers were in the heirarchy... No matter, though. When the best of the Military moves up to become an Astronaut, you gotta salute that.

3 weeks ago | 14

@helloharry1418

Bout time they sent a big balled WARRANT 😂😂❤ NOTHING BUT LOVE CHIEF.....YOU DO US ALL PRO

3 weeks ago | 13

@평민-f9v

아멘.

3 weeks ago | 3

@genedorsey1248

Congratulations chief !

3 weeks ago | 7