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Re:Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered shi... by dragonwriter on Monday December 06, 2021 @11:54AM (#29462203)
> Officers (the only people paid something comparable to engineers in the civilian world) are in management positions from the very beginning of their career, so they get almost zero experience doing technical things as individual contributors.

I don't know if the Army uses them for IT functions, but isn't that the exact issue with technical fields more broadly for which Warrant Officers exist?

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Re:Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered shi... by warner25 on Monday December 06, 2021 @12:28PM (#29462731)
Warrant officers in technical fields are able to remain more technically focused, but they are largely pushed into management too. At CW3 the Army says that they are field-grade officers who are basically interchangeable with an O-4.

The other issue is that many warrant officers still just have a high school diploma, or a check-the-block degree from an online diploma mill. They have deep institutional knowledge and vocational experience, but they aren't going to do technical innovation. This isn't like hiring a senior researcher or engineer.

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