Think Purple; the Army has JNCO pilots - and a Master is not a 'SNCO' as my first Air Engineer would hasten to add! 'Non-Officer' for brevity only.
'We were told' by the Wg Cdr reading CAS' presentation about the ARRWG's targetting. Go to the 'Aircrew Retention Latest' thread and look up one of the links (on page 10) which will take you directly to an approriate .ppt presentation - it's what we were briefed.