"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Subject: resign commission for warrant officer questions
From: (1LT 15B in AH-64D)
Date: 6/17/04 4:01 PM Pacific Daylight Time
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I am a 1LT in the Army National Guard, an Aviator, and I would like to
go on active duty. I have done some research and my options are to
apply to the Active Guard and Reserve or enter as a warrant. I have
been surrounded by warrants and I like them and there responsibilities
are real important and it would be a great honor to be counted in
their ranks. I cannot find out if I have to go to WOC school or not.
I have been to Federal OCS at Benning and a Federal Law Enforcement
Academy. I am interested in finding out if I have to attend yet
another candidate school. I hear it both ways but no AR has been
pointed out that states the facts definitively. Thanks for your help.



Have you lost your mind? Or are you looking for a section 8? Give up a
commission for a lower rank? You will regret it forever. Those captains
bars
are just around the corner. Hang in there and fight fiercely.

Pardon Art for being utterly clueless about anything military happening
post-1945. He obviously does not understand that the bulk of the actual
flying duty in the modern US Army is accomplished by WO/CWO's, who are a bit
less likely to find themselves pullling tours "out of the cockpit". I had a
very good buddy who went the WO route after college; he later called me up
and told me he was being offered a commssion in the MSC (he was then a
Dustoff pilot). I told him flat-out that if he was really interested in the
flying part of the job, stay on the warrant side. He decided otherwise, and
took a commission as a 2LT. By the time he was a 1LT he was already getting
tired of increasing BS--he left the Army before his O-3 board even met.

Brooks



Arthur Kramer