Posted on Jul 17, 2020
Officers wear the same type of rank insignia, will warrant officers ever adopt one style of insignia?
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Using the Army warrant officer but replacing the black enamel with blue(Navy) or red(MC). One day was working with a Navy W-3, he was wearing MARPAT, and we started talking about how his insignia looked too much like an Army W-1. He commented how he wished the Navy would adopt the Army style.
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Actually, I wonder if “Space Force” is going to have warrant officers....
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Actually there are small differences on the O insignia between Army and Navy. O-3 comes to mind. I have not seen the Space Cmd so I not sure about them.
The Army, after Vietnam and McNamara's morons, still had to deal with low intelligence troops. two things I remember they did was drop manuals, regulations and even PM Magazine to the 6th grade reading level and change WO rank insignia. It was found to be too complicated for them to differentiate between gold and silver backgrounds and count dots, too. So it was decided to make the bars all silver and let the troop count dots to determine rank. I do not know how the CW5 was determined that was after my time. About the the time insignia changed, Army made slots for each grade. No longer were WOs interchangeable and just get promoted and stay in same job as they progressed through the ranks.
The Army, after Vietnam and McNamara's morons, still had to deal with low intelligence troops. two things I remember they did was drop manuals, regulations and even PM Magazine to the 6th grade reading level and change WO rank insignia. It was found to be too complicated for them to differentiate between gold and silver backgrounds and count dots, too. So it was decided to make the bars all silver and let the troop count dots to determine rank. I do not know how the CW5 was determined that was after my time. About the the time insignia changed, Army made slots for each grade. No longer were WOs interchangeable and just get promoted and stay in same job as they progressed through the ranks.
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CW4 Keith Dolliver
Initially CW4 was just an "inverse" CW4 insignia, but in 2004 they changed it to the current CW5 insignia with the solid vertical bar to match our sister services W5 insignia.
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Don't care about the color of the rank, but I sure miss the warrant officer 'squashed bug' and would love to see it on my lapels and service cap.
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