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06-05-2009, 12:24 AM
zuludelta
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What do they call warrant officers? Chief Owens?
They're formally addressed as "Mr." in the Army, Navy, and Marines (so they'd address Flint as "Mr. Faireborn").
Informally, they're addressed as "Chief" in the Army and in the Marines. Additionally, USMC Warrant Officers serving as Weapons Officers in Marine Infantry units are also informally addressed as "Gunner" (not to be confused with "Gunny," the informal address for senior USMC sergeants).
I don't know if you could get away with addressing a Navy Warrant Officer as "Chief," though (not with your ass unkicked, anyway
). That term is reserved for Chief Petty Officers, Senior Chief Petty Officers, and Master Chief Petty Officers (E-7s, E-8s, and E-9s, resepctively). The Navy's CPO community is very tight-knit and exclusive (my uncle says that the day he got inducted as a Chief Petty Officer was only behind the birth of his kids as the happiest day of his life), it's almost a separate rank structure distinct from other enlisted personnel in terms of tradition... they don't share dining or living quarters with other enlisted personnel, and they have a different formal uniform. Even superiors such as commissioned officers and nominal superiors like Warrant Officers have to address them as "Chief" when they're on duty.
That's why I always wondered why they renamed the Torpedo character "Chief Torpedo" for a time. That's a mighty big error in terms of protocol and formal address convention.
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