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Just asking, I am really interested in military ranks. Do you have to be promoted from a Chief master Sergeant of the Army to a 2nd Lieutenant? Since CMS is technically I rung under the 2nd Lieutenant. But there is only 1 CMS of the army and hundreds of 2 LTS. So how does it work?

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29 Oct 2019, 07:08

Yes, checked but it does not say wether you can be promoted directly from Chief Warrant officer of army to 2nd LT

29 Oct 2019, 11:23

I'm a former AFROTC cadet (navigator/bombardier qualified) that was RIF (reduced in force) backed in 1976 (went to work for NASA after completing engineering degree), when the the needs of flying qualified cadets was reduced by over 90% because of the end of the Vietnam War. From what I could tell from an internet source, commissioning to second lieutenant has not changed since then (see below) in both the USAF and US Army ...

'There are three main commissioning sources for Second Lieutenants. The first are established military academies (The United States Military Academy at West Point, Norwich, The Citadel, etc.), the second is Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), which is a program of military education and indoctrination that accompanies the studies of prospective officers at regular universities, and the third and final is Officer Candidate School (OCS), which is a course run the by the United States Army to prepare civilians or former soldiers who already hold college degrees to be officers in the Army.'

Thus a Chief Warrant Officer would have to go to OCS to be commissioned Second Lieutenant. In reality, most non-commissioned officers retire- getting a pension, while working a few years in private industry, often an aerospace or DOD contractor before they retire with 2 pensions ... :)

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