Should the Military Create New Warrant Officer Occupational Specialties?

CW3 (Join to see) - don't off hand, just remember meeting one in the catacombs of a Corps HQ.

LTC Jason Mackay - MA is a very small community. I just graduated with my degree in Funeral Service, and sought out for a couple years prior to find out this answer. There needs to be a minimum of 20 Warrant Officer positions in order to make it a feasible MOS for Warrant Officers.

CW3 (Join to see) - 131A http://www.usarec.army.mil/hq/warrant/prerequ/WO131A.shtml

LTC Jason Mackay - Ah yes, I am familiar with that Warrant MOS sir. One of the few "combat arms" Warrant Officers (that and 180A).

Haha. Good one. But seriously, its easy to find a Warrant Officer. You just summon them. This is how you do it.

CW3 (Join to see) - All kidding aside, I had a close friendship with our motor pool CW3 - lived 3 houses down from where I lived - Guy was never around the Motor Pool that I can ever see, but he sure did get our shit done, parts would magically appear when you needed them, but you never saw him get it done.

SSG Robert Perrotto - All kidding aside... That's because Warrant Officers have magic powers. :)

Also it seem that the Army took hold of a concept of not being to top heavy but having a rank between and enlisted person and higher ranking commissioned officers. It seems that first took of in rotary wing aviation that rather than have enlisted pilots or too many higher ranking officers or limiting their promotions to avoid becoming top heavy Warrant Officers was a good solution. Promotion problem would also be solved as there was still room for upward advancement up to W4 then but now up to W5. It seems like both the Army and the soldiers won on this move. It seems a Warrant Officer often has the best of a lot of things, seems its not a bad place to be. The Air Force used to have warrant Officers but now is the only branch that doesn't. There has been some discussion of bring the warrant officer back into the Air Force, will that happen ? I don't know and have no predictions on that but it seemed to work ok back when they did.

I agree with you. There used to be a lot of problems in the old Warrant Officer Corps in many regards, but I believe the Army has fixed a lot of that, and now utilizes Warrants to the service's benefit. I don't think the Air Force ever really gave their program a shot and truthfully, the Army hadn't worked out all the kinks yet by the time the Air Force had already decided to disband theirs. However, 100 years later and the Warrant Officer Cohort has only been expanding. I think its safe to say it is a success!

You are absolutely correct. The Army has brought the Warrant more in line with the ROLO counterparts. This with branch insignia on uniforms, schooling, and field grade status for evaluation reports. LDO roles in the future???

CW5 Ranger Dave - The only reason I know this are the History classes we got at WOCS (good ole Mother-Rucker, had an awesome retired CW4 instructor). Since then I have been fascinated with WO history.