Pros and cons of switching from enlisted to warrant in the guard? What are the duties of warrant officers compared to regular officers?

Responsibilities of a warrant officer
1. Always have coffee
2. Arrive when you feel the need
3. Never show up for formation
4. When ever you are gone , Soldiers will say " so and so is doing chief stuff" no one has ever figured out what chief stuff "

Just throwing some humor out there this is all to in good fun every warrant I have served with has been a SME and when they speak they have always been listened to

Good luck and God speed

I would say the biggest difference between a comissioned officer and a warrant officer is:

A Commissioned Officer is an administrator. They run the platoon, company, battalion, brigade and so on. You can be an quartermaster officer but thru the needs of the army, can have you in a combat engineer position. This is not utilizing your knowledge of your mos, and setting you up for failure and in some instances, making you look unknowledgable.

A Warrant Officer runs a section of the company, battalion, brigade what have you. They have a specific skill set making them the Subject Matter Expert in their field. They will stay in that field until they reclassify or retire. This sets the warrant officer up for success IMHO.

I'm happy I made the switch, but there are big differences from being an officer versus a NCO. Responsibilities are big, instead of executing, you'll be drawing up the plans from scratch. Training is different too.