A Profession of Arms

Abstract : In a group dynamic senior warrant officers distilled the essence of the current Army warrant officer cohort in the aftermath of a decade of persistent conflict. The research and analysis was conducted by the authors while part of a study group consisting of Warrant Officer Senior Staff Course students. This team of students determined that the values sustaining the warrant officer cohort are consistent with those of the Army as a whole. The Warrant Officer Corps embodies expert knowledge, integrity, service before self, and a visible quest for excellence. Furthermore, warrant officers enjoy a comprehensive training program that is continually fine-tuned as methodologies and technology progress. This allows for relative doctrine, a contemporary individual, organizational and institutional institutional development processes, and the appropriate integration of the warrant officer cohort with the Army s internal and external environments. These indispensable elements apply to the warrant officer in a technical professional that is further correctly identified as a profession of arms.