HAL Pilot
One of the indicia of mateship is the capacity to offer old friends frank and fearless advice.
And your insistence that US warrant officers be accorded the privileges of commissioned rank in other jurisdictions, when your hosts don’t recognise them as such, is surely deserving of a whisper in your shell like, from those mates well placed to proffer guidance and counsel in an avuncular manner.
Irrespective of what you were taught at Annapolis, the rest of the world beyond the US doesn’t march to the beat of John Phillip Souza, McDonalds, Seinfeld, Mom’s apple pie, George W Bush, Wal-Mart and the demands of New_WO1.
Australian, New Zealand, Canadian, most European and British Warrant Officers hold a unique and distinct place in the allied military order of precedence. Uncle Sam may have a different view. But with great respect, Uncle Sam’s view is only binding on Uncle Sam. The rest of us see the world, and the precedence of warrant officers, differently. You really need to understand that, accept it and move on.
In such a situation of diverging views and your intransigence, some might proffer profanities about your ancestry and seeming lack of empathy for allies. I can’t possibly comment on that. But, with the advice that only old friends can give, and with the greatest of respect, I suggest that you look beyond the ambit of the instant warrant officer, and see things in a broader perspective.