Warrant Officer

From Victory In Europe

Rank Summary
Rank Name:	Warrant Officer
Level:	Level 7b
Category:	CO Cadet or NCO
Career Path:	CO
Type:	Allied US Infantry/Canadian
Last used in:	PPCLI (ViE#10)

Warrant Officer is an Allied NCO rank. In real-life, Warrant Officers form a category of ranks in their own right, due to their seldom appearance in ViE this is not done here. For ViE purposes, Warrant Officers are seen as either NCOs or CO Cadets on NCO-level. The rank was first used in ViE#4, as a CO Cadet rank. In ViE#10 it was first used as kind of NCO rank.

1 Position within Chain of Command
2 Tag
3 History in ViE
4 Holders
- 4.1 ViE#10
5 See also

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Position within Chain of Command

In the Order of Precedence, Warrant Officer is classified as WO-1 (United States) or OR-7 (Canada) in the NATO System and as Level 7b in the Ewok rank classification system.

The next lower enlisted rank is Corporal or Sergeant in Canadian ranks. Sergeant is a parallel rank in non-Canadian systems. The next higher rank is Staff Sergeant on the Enlisted Path or Master Warrant Officer in Canadian ranks.

See also: Order of Precedence

In the Career System, this is an NCO-level rank on the CO Path, and the lowest NCO rank on that path. The next higher rank is Master Warrant Officer in the Candian system.

Rank Position
Lower rank:	Corporal (Enlisted) or Master Corporal (Canadian), Private First Class NC (NCO path), Warrant Officer II (CO Path)
Higher rank:	Staff Sergeant (Enlisted) or Master Warrant Officer (Canadian), Technical Sergeant (NCO Path), Warrant Officer 2nd Class (CO Path)
Parallel rank(s):	Sergeant (Enlisted) Colour Sergeant (NCO Path)
NATO class:	WO-1 (USA) OR-7 (Canada)
Ewok class:	7b