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Staff Weather Officers (SWOs) are United States Air Force personnel tasked with providing tactical and operational meteorological support for conventional Army forces.
The title is held by both officer and enlisted personnel while tasked with this duty. Previous and alternate names for Army weather support Airmen are: Battlefield Weather, Combat Weather, and Army Support Weather. Airmen at all levels are trained to integrate with planners and mission generators at all levels of Army command. Specifically, SWOs are typically aligned to Army echelons at and above the brigade level. The scope of support ranges from infusing environmental intelligence into all warfighting functions to providing mission execution and planning weather. SWOs are not to be confused with the now-defunct Air Force career field known as Special Operations Weather Team (SOWT).