Why is Stealth So Important?

Cub Driver wrote:

Next thing you know, they'll be commissioning NCOs.

Why?

Why not? If a warrant officer can be a commissioned officer, so can
Top.

I notice that they're calling him "sir" these days. That used to get
you 20 push-ups in the U.S. Army.

A commissioned non-commissioned officer! That would be army-think at
its finest.

But really no more foolish than a commissioned warrant officer--a
warrant, after all, being by definition something less than a
commission.

Sometime in the late 1950s, the US services
created the enlisted "supergrades", E-8 and E-9
- specifically for the purpose of eventually
doing away with the Warrant Officer grade.

It took more than a dozen years, but the USAF
did exactly that. (They could hang in until
retirement... but zero new ones were created.)

BTW - in the Kaiserslautern (Germany) Military
Community (headed by the Brigadier running the
86th TFG at Ramstein), we had LOTS of Army types
in the many base housing areas.

There were three sections of base housing: enlisted,
senior NCOs, and officer. My neighbor across the
apartment hall (in senior NCO housing) was an Army
CWO - and we both had very similar training, duties,
and responsibilites in our respective fields.

- John T. former MSgt, USAF