Originally Posted by
rickair7777
The only point of using warrants is to create a track that is more focused on flying and related technical specialties... as opposed to commissioned officers who are being developed to potentially become senior organizational managers, combat leaders, and ultimately strategists. The latter requires decades of marination, not just a masters degree and PME-I.
Could a warrant have done 1st Lt Mattis's job as a platoon leader? Sure. Would that warrant's career track have developed him to become CUSCC and SECDEF? No.
I don't want to sound overly bitter, but the caliber of O-4/O-5s I am working with these days (Army) aren't going to be SECDEF/CoS material not now, not ever. 99.99% of the time casual conversation always reverts to their career (stressing about requisite KD time or making the next grade). I rarely hear the enlisted obsess over their "career" and the WOs just want to get the job done. I've sat through numerous O-6 CUBs (theater and garrison), and there wasn't much at all "strategic" about them.