Chief Warrant Officer 5 Casey Akins
State Command Chief Warrant Officer

Chief Warrant Officer 5 Casey Akins is the Command Chief Warrant Officer, Nevada National Guard, serving as the senior-ranking warrant officer and principal advisor to The Adjutant General (TAG) and leaders on warrant officer matters influencing the health, morale, and professional development of the Nevada Army National Guard’s warrant officer corps.
 
Akins previously served as commander, Detachment 3, Company B, 2-641st Aviation, also known as Detachment 45 Operation Support Airlift (OSA), the Nevada Army National Guard’s only fixed-wing aviation unit. The unit maintains and operates the twin-engine, turboprop C-12 Huron. Akins worked as a pilot in the unit for nine years. Akins, a Fernley High graduate, joined the U.S. Army in 2002. After serving nine years in the active duty Army, Akins joined the Nevada Army National Guard as a CH-47 D instructor pilot in 2011. She has deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan as a CH-47 pilot and Africa as a C-12 pilot.