Rak....
Sorry ol' Bean....they are Commissioned Warrant Officers nowadays....much to the chagrin of we old bunch of Warrant Officers. How the US Army in their infinite wisdom could achieve such a situation is beyond me. However one must recall the Army....just like all...operative word here....all military organizations, is managed by Commissioned Officers (but run by NCO's and Warrant Officers).
Nowadays they get commissioned.....whereas in the good old days....we received a Warrant from the Secretary of the Army....and we were most happy with that arrangement. We quite happily fell into the nether regions...officers but not commissoned officers...but not enlisted either. We were satisfied to earn our respect vice obtaining same by means of a piece of paper....almost like buying a commission in some Regiment as you folk did.
The US Army required Warrant Officer Candidates to score higher on the Standardized Tests than they did for commissioned officers....thus again the management set up a relationship bound to fail. Those in charge were not always the sharpest knife in the drawer when compared to those being supervised. Ah...but the fun that caused!
Get yer facts straight before discharging yer weapon....makes for more accurate shooting....but then....are you a commissioned officer?
Need for Speed....ask about a thing called WOPA....see if it still exists? A covert (barely and not always) organization made up of Warrant Officers....full name....Warrant Officers Protective Association. Warrants banded together to "protect" one another....and the group....even if it meant taking a brother Warrant aside for some corrective counseling in private....private usually meaning out behind the hangar one evening late. Nowadays it would be known as "Wall to Wall Counseling".