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In my current gig the enlisted rank I am most like to encounter is E-9. It usually a very senior E-9, Like the Command Chief Master Sergeant of AFRICOM, the Command Sergeant Major of US Army Pacific, or even the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps.
These men enlisted when I was just a few years old, or before I was even born, in some cases. They are responsible for the support of tens of thousands of service members. And yet , because I am a warrant officer, they salute me and call me “Sir”. It always makes me feel a bit like a heal and that I somehow cheated. I went warrant officer when I was an E-5 in part because, at the time, it was damn near impossible to make E-6 in my MOS. So as an E-5 I go to a seven week Warrant Officer Candidate School, where I didn’t learn ANYTHING, and graduate outranking the most senior enlisted members of the military.
So is the way we do it and outdated class system?
These men enlisted when I was just a few years old, or before I was even born, in some cases. They are responsible for the support of tens of thousands of service members. And yet , because I am a warrant officer, they salute me and call me “Sir”. It always makes me feel a bit like a heal and that I somehow cheated. I went warrant officer when I was an E-5 in part because, at the time, it was damn near impossible to make E-6 in my MOS. So as an E-5 I go to a seven week Warrant Officer Candidate School, where I didn’t learn ANYTHING, and graduate outranking the most senior enlisted members of the military.
So is the way we do it and outdated class system?