What is a Warrant Officer?

Question

My son was just picked up for Warrant Officer. He is currently in Iraq and will be coming home shortly because he got picked up for WO. What exactly does a warrant officer do?

Answer 1

So many innacurate answers, jessa's isn't bad. Warrant officers are commisioned when they pin the rank of CW2, which is dumb and why they are changing that to as soon you pin WO1. The ranks go from warrant officer 1 to cheif warrant officer 2, cw3, cw4 and cw5 is the highest.
Your son will be going to warrant officer candidate school in fort rucker, AL as soon as he gets orders, which is usually pretty quick. He'll only have to do the 4 week course if he's an e-5 or above I believe. Then he'll rather go to flight school to fly helo's or go to a technical school, which would most likely be related to his current mos.
When enlisted or regular officers are promoted they gain more authority and leadership responsibilities. Warrants don't, its our job to be the experts on whatever field we are in.

Answer 2

My boyfriend is a Warrant Officer in the Army, and so are many of my friends :) First of all, congratulations to your son! A warrant officer is a technical expert in his/her field of work. Army Warrant Officers fall into one of two categories... Aviation and Technical... Aviation WO's are given the opportunity to learn how to fly helicopters, and some are able to learn how to fly a fixed wing aircraft. Tech warrants deal with other things... it varies... A Warrant Officer gets paid more, but only has one specific job... unlike a Commissioned Officer, they don't have to worry about the paperwork and dealing with having a platoon or anything like that... The rank for a WO is 1-5...

Aviation WO's are all trained at Fort Rucker in Alabama. WOCS- Warrant Officer Candidate School takes place there as well, and can last anywhere from 4-6 weeks, depending on the rank your son is now...

ggates1982- Warrants are not superior enlistedmen. They are officers. Plain and simple :)
They have nothing to do with enlistment other than the fact that many of them were once enlisted.

Answer 3

Warrant Officers are considered technical experts in their field, the warrant ranks are between officer and enlisted ranks but they are considered officers, although a W1 is not a commissioned officer.

WO1 Receives a warrant by the Secretary of the Army/Navy
CWO2 through CWO5 receive a commission from the President, and are Commissioned Officers. The Army and Marine Corps are the only services to have W1, all personnel in the Navy selected for Warrant Officer start at CWO2.

Forgot to ask what branch he's in if he's in the Army then what abouch66 said is true, if he's in the Marine Corps then he will be attending Reserve Warrant Officer Basic Course in Quantico VA. If by chance he's in the Navy it he would attend the The Limited Duty Officer/Chief Warrant Officer (LDO/CWO) School at Naval Training Command Great Lakes IL.

Answer 4

A military Warrant officer is slightly different from a Comissioned officer. You see comissioned officers must have at least a Bachelors degree from an acredited college and graduated from either a US Military academy, Reserve Officers training Corps (ROTC) , or Officer Canidate School (OCS) . They start out as the rank of Second Lieutenant and can go up as high as General. They are the primary leadership of todays military and can command anything from as small as a platoon all the way up to commanding the entire Army.
Due to the needs of the military for officers to fill more technical jobs that the military just dosent trust an enlisted man to do ( Enlisted are Privates, Specialest and Sargeants) they created the Warrant Officer. A Warrant Officer is a former enlisted man/or woman who was good enough and smart enough to pass a very strict board that choses canidates to attend Warrant Officer Canidate School. No college degree is required. Once the canidate graduates he/she is promoted to Warrant Officer 1 and can advance up the ranks all the way to Chief Warrant Officer 5. These Warrant Officers will be trained for some kind of technical job ( many helicopter piolts are Warrant Officers because the Army has so many helicopters that there arent enough commisioned officers to spare to fly them all ) . A Warrant officer will receive higher pay than when he/she was enlisted, be saluted by enlisted , and be addressed as either Sir , Chief , or Mister.

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Answer 6

Actually, in my experience, certain warrant officer ranks have "equivalents" in the commissioned officer ranks. A 22-year old second lieutenant can't smartmouth off at a CW5, that's for sure. If I remember correctly, a WO1 is about the same as a lieutenant; a CW2 is about the same a captain; a CW3 is about the same as a major; a CW4 is about the same as a lieutenant colonel; and a CW5 is about the same as a colonel. The commissioned officer ranks undeniably have more authority; but those pair-ups with comparable warrants ranks are about the same in terms of respectability owed to those ranks, as well as sometimes the levels of responsibility given to those ranks. I found them to be a lot cooler and laid-back than regular officers, sometimes... it's the ones who start thinking of themselves like they're commissioned that become the arrogant *******.

Answer 7

you're able to do it; in spite of the incontrovertible fact which you will desire to think of long and sophisticated approximately this. An officer does out-rank a warrant officer; in spite of the incontrovertible fact that a warrant will in basic terms be flying the birds. it incredibly is the officer's that command the contraptions, yet nevertheless fly. The warrants in basic terms fly the birds and are the maintenace chiefs. in case you earn a value and get branched Aviation, it incredibly is incredibly helpful to stay on the commissioned ingredient of the fence.

Answer 8

a warrant officer in the army is a superior enlisted man or a junior officer he has all the respect of an officer without the pressure and responsibility of leading men and he is more than an enlisted man they are commonly CID or helicopters pilots

Answer 9

They are non commissioned officers with special skills or education. They are between enlisted and commissioned officers in rankings