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From: jln@elaine37.stanford.edu (Jared Nedzel)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Warrent vs. regular officers.
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.031815.26890@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 13 Feb 91 03:18:15 GMT
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From: jln@elaine37.stanford.edu (Jared Nedzel)
In article <1991Feb12.015621.11055@cbnews.att.com> bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt) writes:
>  Other services had warrants in technical fields but I heard a while back
>  that they are phasing them out - anybody add anything about Air Force,
>  Marine, Navy warrant officers?

My cousin is a WO-2 in the Marine Corps. He tells me that they have 4 levels
of warrant officer: WO-1 through WO-4. As you describe, he was appointed to
WO-1 from Staff Sergeant. He is a navigation instructor for KC-130s.

The warrant officer ranks are small and getting smaller (I believe that
he told me the Corps is no longer appointing warrant officers). There are
a couple of advantages to being a warrant officer. First, the pay is
similar to officers pay, with WO-4 approaching colonels pay. Second,
my cousin reports that there is less politics within the warrant officers ranks
than in either the non-com or officers ranks.  Perhaps it comes from 
there being less warrant officers and from the warrant officers 
typically being assigned to more specialized duties.


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