Hello kaladorn

On 08/13/2020 9:13 AM xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote:

This site of pay rates for the federal armed services indicates there is no rank and accompanying pay grade for either W-1 or CWO-5/W-5.

https://www.federalpay.org/military/coast-guard

I have done some more digging and I found this site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_officer with a history for Warrant Officers and countries that have them. According to the list the USCG discontinued W-1 in 1975 and that the rank of W-5 was established in 1994 but not implemented.

This site shows comparison of insignia of rank across the US services and note the absence of W-1 and CWO-5/W-5.

https://www.defense.gov/Resources/Insignia/

I agree that the list shows that the USCG no longer has W-1 or mentions they established W-5. The link does show that the US Army, Marine Corps, and Navy all have the rank of CWO5.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the two main CG sites I went on did not have any obvious link to their rank structure that I could easily locate and searching 'ranks' or 'rank structure' on them did not produce anything useful. <rolls eyes>

I typed the search criteria of USCG Ranks and rates and came up with this link https://www.forcecom.uscg.mil/Portals/3/Documents/TCCM/Documents/RTPocket.pdf?ver=2017-03-07-111242-660

I did find a link that may help on the history of Warrant Officers in the USCG which is https://cwoauscg.org/about-the-cwoa/history/.

Tom Rux