DRAWSKO POMORSKIE, Poland — Chief Warrant Officer 3 Brian Myers, left, an automotive upkeep warrant officer for 1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, third Armored Brigade Fight Workforce, 4th Infantry Division, speaks with Sgt. 1st Class Layverth Colorado, with 1st Bn., 68th Armor Reg., third ABCT, 4th Inf. Div., about upkeep operations deliberate for the day at Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland, July 5, 2022. The third ABCT, 4th Inf. Div., is amongst different models assigned to the first Infantry Division, proudly working alongside NATO allies and regional safety companions to offer combat-credible forces to V-Corps, America’s ahead deployed corps in Europe. (Photograph by Sgt. Tara Fajardo Arteaga)
By Sgt. Tara Fajardo Arteaga
Army News
Editor’s notice: The Warrant Officer Corps celebrated its 104th anniversary July 9, 2022. The Warrant Officer Corps was based in 1918 when Congress created the Army Mine Planter Service as a part of the Coast Artillery Corps. It wasn’t till World Warfare II, in 1941, the counterintelligence corps, which might later flip into Army Intelligence Corps, thought of authorizing warrant officers. In 1945 they appointed almost 400 warrant officers into the counterintelligence corps.
DRAWSKO POMORSKIE, Poland — U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 Brian Myers, an automotive upkeep warrant officer for 1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, third Armored Brigade Fight Workforce, 4th Infantry Division, wears the rank of chief warrant officer 3 at Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland July 5, 2022. The third Armored Brigade Fight Workforce, 4th Infantry Division, is amongst different models assigned to the first Infantry Division, proudly working alongside NATO allies and regional safety companions to offer combat-credible forces to V Corps, America’s ahead deployed corps in Europe. (Photograph by Sgt. Tara Fajardo Arteaga)
DRAWSKO POMORSKIE, Poland — U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 Brian Myers, paused as he thought the right way to describe the significance of a warrant officer. It was his final day in Poland earlier than he heads residence to arrange the paperwork to retire from the Army.
Myers is an automotive upkeep warrant officer for 1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, third Armored Brigade Fight Workforce, 4th Infantry Division, with 21 years of lively service within the upkeep area. He has spent the final 9 years as a warrant officer, a subject professional to his Troopers.
“Chief Myers is the glue that sticks this whole upkeep program collectively,” stated Sgt. 1st Class Narciso López, a upkeep noncommissioned officer in cost for 1st Bn., 68th Armor Reg. “With out him, his experience, and data of his craft, every thing could be a multitude.”
Army warrant officers make up the technical basis of the U.S. Army. They’re extremely skilled consultants who concentrate on considered one of 48 technical areas together with intelligence, aviation and upkeep.
“The factor in regards to the Warrant Officer Corps is that it’s so small,” stated López. “However they’re so nicely related inside their very own corps, they’re in a position to determine the powerful solutions to additional the mission of the unit.”
Though they make up lower than 3% of complete Army power, warrant officers have essential tasks that embody coaching Troopers organizing and advising on missions and serving because the Army’s technical consultants and trusted advisors.
DRAWSKO POMORSKIE, Poland — U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 Brian Myers, an automotive upkeep warrant officer for 1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, third Armored Brigade Fight Workforce, 4th Infantry Division, wears the rank of chief warrant officer 3 at Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland, July 5, 2022. The third Armored Brigade Fight Workforce, 4th Infantry Division, is amongst different models assigned to the first Infantry Division, proudly working alongside NATO allies and regional safety companions to offer combat-credible forces to V Corps, America’s ahead deployed corps in Europe. (Photograph by Sgt. Tara Fajardo Arteaga)
“I counsel the commander, do analysis and discover data Troopers have to do their job nicely,” Myers stated. “I like the truth that I can work together with Troopers and attempt to be somebody they will look as much as. I at all times be sure I’m current at coaching occasions, bodily coaching and formations. I need them to assume positively about warrant officers.”
López recommended Myers for his involvement to enhance the unit as a warrant officer, “Chief has been what this unit was lacking,” stated López. “Till Chief obtained right here, every thing was in all places. He got here in and went by way of every thing little by little, sacrificing his private time and time away from his Household to make sure every thing was so as and that the mission was able to go.”
In 1999, Myers joined the Army as a wheeled car repairer, and accomplished his first enlistment. “I obtained out of the Army for a few years,” stated Myers. “The Iraq battle kicked off, and I felt strongly about being part of that after September eleventh.” After he reenlisted to serve his nation in a time of battle, the Army modified the mechanic army occupational specialty job title to what it’s in the present day — from the 63 to the 91 collection. He served in that function whereas he labored his manner by way of the ranks to sergeant top quality and after 12 years as an enlisted mechanic, determined to make the change to a warrant officer function.
“I felt prefer it was the precise selection for my Household, and for my profession path,” stated Myers. “It’s a really totally different world, being a warrant officer. It’s a really arduous job and difficult. However, additionally, it’s very cool since you’re the one particular person within the battalion Troopers go to once they don’t know what to do.”
DRAWSKO POMORSKIE, Poland — U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 Brian Myers, an automotive upkeep warrant officer for 1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, third Armored Brigade Fight Workforce, 4th Infantry Division, wears the rank of chief warrant officer 3 at Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland July 5, 2022. The third Armored Brigade Fight Workforce, 4th Infantry Division, is amongst different models assigned to the first Infantry Division, proudly working alongside NATO allies and regional safety companions to offer combat-credible forces to V Corps, America’s ahead deployed corps in Europe. (Photograph by Sgt. Tara Fajardo Arteaga)
Warrant officers stay single-specialty officers whose profession monitor is oriented in direction of progressing inside their profession area quite than specializing in elevated ranges of command and employees obligation positions, like commissioned officers.
Warrant officers should be technically and tactically targeted and in a position to carry out the first duties of technical chief and advisor. They lead and prepare purposeful sections, groups, or crews all whereas being the first adviser to the commander.
Myers oversees the upkeep on each merchandise of apparatus within the battalion, from night time imaginative and prescient goggles, radios, turbines, tanks, automobiles, professional masks and the rest that upkeep will be carried out on. If there may be an merchandise that can not be repaired, he helps the Troopers to finish the paperwork wanted to show that merchandise again into the Army.
Myers will retire from the U.S. Army after serving 21 years.
“I’m unhappy to depart. There are such a lot of good recollections. I hope that I’ve portrayed an excellent outlook on the Warrant Officer Corps,” stated Myers. “I’ve at all times been very cautious of how I deal with officers and NCOs as a result of sooner or later a lieutenant will develop as much as be a battalion commander, and I need them to have a optimistic view of the warrant officer.
“There aren’t any bounds to this job,” stated Myers. “I adore it.”
DRAWSKO POMORSKIE, Poland — U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 Brian Myers, automotive upkeep warrant officer for 1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, third Armored Brigade Fight Workforce, 4th Infantry Division, poses for a photograph at Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland, July 5, 2022. The third Armored Brigade Fight Workforce, 4th Infantry Division, is amongst different models assigned to the first Infantry Division, proudly working alongside NATO allies and regional safety companions to offer combat-credible forces to V Corps, America’s ahead deployed corps in Europe. (Photograph by Sgt. Tara Fajardo Arteaga)
