I met a few Warrant Officers while in the U.S. Marine Corps - they do hold commissions. Their leadership is generally directed toward technical specialties, instead of command, like a normal commissioned officer. It's kind of like the difference between a Master Sergeant and a First Sergeant, or a Master Gunnery Sergeant and a Sergeant Major. Just wanted to throw that out there. Smoke My pageMy talk 03:44, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
Rank NamesEdit
Can we hold the experience ranks in the Halo multiplayer system as actual canon for the UNSC military rank, especially by way of name? Warrant Officer 1 doesn't seem like a rank (renaming it First Warrant Officer might be more realistic, assuming a second rank exists), and four ranks of Chief Warrant Officer seems a tad overblown. The multiplayer system is, after all, meant to denote a lot of different experience levels, so more ranks might exist in this system than are actually present in the UNSC military- should this be examined?Unnamed Individual 04:02, August 16, 2010 (UTC)
The WO ranks don't come from any multiplayer system. These are the ranks of the actual US military (Warrant Officer 1, Chief WO 2, 3, etc.) The Spartan ranks seen in multiplayer aren't the actual UNSC ranks. All ranks seen in campaign are also US ranks, so we can assume that the UNSC ranking system matches the US one.
Multiplayer is never canon. Iceman117 02:29, August 19, 2010 (UTC)