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Army Warrant Officer Essay

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will start off by saying, yes, SF Company and Battalion warrant officers should be part of the command team. But, what are the 2nd and 3rd order effects of this? Now let me break this down a bit further. This is an exert taken out of FM 7-0: The Army warrant officer corps is comprised of over 25,000 men and women of the active Army and reserve components. Warrant officers are technical experts that manage and maintain increasingly complex battlefield systems. They enhance the Army 's ability to defend our national interests, and to fight and win our nations wars. Candidates who successfully complete Warrant Officer Candidate School are appointed in the grade of Warrant Officer One. When promoted to Chief Warrant Officer Two, warrant officers …show more content…

We must be very careful fighting for the official recognition within the command team. As tactical and technical experts in the SF field, with recognition comes the addition of oversight of our career path that could easily remove us from an ODA/ODB sooner that we would like. To meet the pre-requisites for becoming an SF warrant, we will undoubtedly have tactical and technical expertise in SF operations and that only gets greater once we return as warrant. By this time, many of us are sitting between 10-14 years in service. If we are not careful, we could be forced to add something similar to the Captain’s Career course, and ILE. Let me remind all, these are PSC moves. What this says to me is that we may do 18-24 months on an ODA and then be forced to move on. By doing this, we begin to lose that tactical and technical knowledge that the traditional commissioned officer relies on us for. At what point do we lose our relevance for the trade-off of a command seat. I will finish by re-emphasizing that we should be recognized as part of the command team, but we must be very careful at the approach we take. As the subject line in the post says; Are we Special? Changes to the warrant officer community as a whole (conventional and SF) could result in what I discuss above. Any changes that take place should be specifically pointed at the SF command relationship

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