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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Hobbes: [QB] I'd love to see a boot ensign try pushing around a warrant. For starters, CWOs are commissioned officers. Secondly, no ensign would be that stupid. In today's Navy there are many ways of becoming an officer. The primary way is to go to a 4 year college, then attend Officer Candidate School (OCS) in Pensacola, FL. Or try to go to the 4 year Naval Academy in Annapolis which I'm told is very selective. However the most common way is to go to college and join the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) in which the military pays for your college and in return they join the Navy afterwards for 4 years as an officer. For enlisted folks. There use to be several programs, but they've all been rolled into one, Seaman-to-Admiral (STA21). Another selection board in which those chosen will get the ability to go to college and be paid and a get a commission. If you were to go to college on your own, say you get a shore duty billet and go to school and manage getting a bachelor's degree, you can request an early out from your enlisted and go to OCS. There's even been one Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) that's the top admiral who use to be enlisted. So to go from being a lowly seaman to the admiral in charge of the Navy is possible. The difference between a warrant and a regular officer, is a CWO is a specialist in his field while an officer is a generalist. Basically an unrestricted line officer is expected to be able to do anything. A CWO doesn't have a college degree, but usually has about 20 years in the Navy and considered an expert in their field. However, a CWO will only work in their prior enlisted field. CWOs can become ensigns, but they do so as a Limited Duty Officer (LDO) which means they're limited to working in their field of expertise. For example, the USS Fitzgerald's chief of engineering, LT Dunn was LDO and prior enlisted but managed to make it all the way to becoming a department head. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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