Marine Corps Warrant Officer

A marine corps warrant officer is a specialist who has served on active enlisted duty and can function in a specific role known as a military occupational specialty or mos.

Marine corps warrant officer. For example the marine gunner warrant officer program requires a marine to hold the rank of gunnery sergeant and have 16 23. Those appointed would be selected from the noncommissioned officer ranks. Marine corps usmc is a branch of the u s.

Becoming a usmc warrant officer requires serving on active enlisted duty for a specific period and holding a military occupational specialty mos code that proves your knowledge in one area or another. Pearson jr financial management resource officer marine corps recruiting command. The warrant officer path typically is followed by marines who do not have a college degree but want to serve as officers.

A chief warrant officer cwo2 cwo5 serving in the mos 0306 infantry weapons officer carries a special title marine gunner which does not replace his rank. The marine corps has had warranted officers since 1916 when the commandant of the marine corps made a request to the secretary of the navy for the creation of two warrant grades marine gunner and quartermaster clerk. Warrant officer wo1 is a rank in the united states marine corps usmc a branch of the u s.

A warrant officer 1 is a warrant officer at dod paygrade w 1 with a starting monthly pay of 3 213. Warrant officer 1 is the 13th rank in the united states marine corps ranking above sergeant major of the marine corps and directly below chief warrant officer 2. The warrant officer wo program is designed to provide the marine corps with technical specialists who perform duties that require extensive knowledge of a particular military occupational specialty mos and can be assigned successive tours of duty in their primary mos.

Warrant officers are sought for their physical technical and mental capabilities according to chief warrant officer 3 david l. Other warrant officers are sometimes incorrectly referred to as gunner. Warrant officers in all branches of the u s.

Marine corps base quantico va every year hundreds of enlisted marines join the officer ranks through the warrant officer program. A marine gunner replaces the chief warrant officer insignia on the left collar with a bursting bomb insignia.