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Army warrant officers will ‘bid’ against each other for their next bonus
Posted on 2/21/26 at 8:56 am
Posted on 2/21/26 at 8:56 am
Task and Purpose
I considered going signal warrant before getting out altogether for the private sector. I suspect this is about trying to reduce the size of their warrant officer corp while also underpaying market rate for retaining many of these relative to their private sector analogues. However, I suspect what happens is someone who is a competent CWO-3 or 4 in 255N, bases their "price" on what it would take to keep them in uniformed service relative to private sector network admin positions. Those people will have a high bid, get nothing, and leave to work for some defense contractor since they have a top secret clearance active in hand. Army ends up with the turd 255N holding onto the bowl for dear life.
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Here’s how the Army says it will work:
Senior warrant officers hoping to receive a bonus for extending their active duty service commitment will submit confidential “bids,” which represent the minimum monthly paycheck bump each soldier “would be satisfied receiving” to sign a new six -year contract.
Once all eligible warrant officers submit their bids, Army officials will determine both the amount of the bonus payment and who will receive it by calculating the auction’s “market-clearing” rate, a concept used widely in economics and finance. In that process, the “winning” bid is the bonus amount that would spread all of the program’s funding for the year among the most soldiers who agreed to accept a payment that size or smaller with their bids (all soldiers who win in the auction will receive the winning bonus, even if their bid was lower).
Those who bid too high get nothing.
I considered going signal warrant before getting out altogether for the private sector. I suspect this is about trying to reduce the size of their warrant officer corp while also underpaying market rate for retaining many of these relative to their private sector analogues. However, I suspect what happens is someone who is a competent CWO-3 or 4 in 255N, bases their "price" on what it would take to keep them in uniformed service relative to private sector network admin positions. Those people will have a high bid, get nothing, and leave to work for some defense contractor since they have a top secret clearance active in hand. Army ends up with the turd 255N holding onto the bowl for dear life.
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Posted on 2/21/26 at 9:00 am to Diego Ricardo
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I considered going signal warrant before getting out altogether for the private sector. I suspect this is about trying to reduce the size of their warrant officer corp while also underpaying market rate for retaining many of these relative to their private sector analogues. However, I suspect what happens is someone who is a competent CWO-3 or 4 in 255N, bases their "price" on what it would take to keep them in uniformed service relative to private sector network admin positions. Those people will have a high bid, get nothing, and leave to work for some defense contractor since they have a top secret clearance active in hand. Army ends up with the turd 255N holding onto the bowl for dear life.
I understood about 15% of that, still enjoyed it.
Posted on 2/21/26 at 9:21 am to Diego Ricardo
The military has found a way, since Vietnam, to adopt the worst personnel practices on the planet. From TQM to Up or Out, to having MOS's at 200% and others at 60%, there is no aspect of personnel management that the Pentagon can't screw up.
All the WO's should get together and put the exact same number on their bids. Asking them to bid and then the resulting disparities in who is kept, who goes, who gets paid what - this is a recipe for ruining good order and discipline and destroying confidence in the chain of command - it's the chain of command that will make these decisions, it's the chain of command trying to pawn off this responsibility on these WO's, and will then blame the WO's for any resulting complaints.
I'm convinced that our war colleges don't teach leadership, strategy and tactics, but instead teach manipulation and political games. The word smithing and rhetorical trash that comes from our most senior officers is embarrassing.
If your system can't properly identify the best people through merit, then your system is the problem and they are obviously putting off their systemic retardation on these WO's. They seek ways to make people regret serving the country. Hegseth needs to nuke this. Hopefully this wasn't his idea.
I remember in the GWOT the g-level staffs took over training and planning; directed training that was often divergent from core MOS skills or simply neglected core MOS skills. Then starting around 2012 they start castigating the junior officers and NCOs saying they didn't know their core MOS skills etc etc. The duplicity and disrespect shown by our senior officers is disgusting. If they want to clean house, they need to can about 75% of the flag officers. Every military in history that has gotten as top heavy as ours has gone to suffer humiliating, catastrophic defeats. Going after the WO's is not the answer here. Go after the flag officers.
All the WO's should get together and put the exact same number on their bids. Asking them to bid and then the resulting disparities in who is kept, who goes, who gets paid what - this is a recipe for ruining good order and discipline and destroying confidence in the chain of command - it's the chain of command that will make these decisions, it's the chain of command trying to pawn off this responsibility on these WO's, and will then blame the WO's for any resulting complaints.
I'm convinced that our war colleges don't teach leadership, strategy and tactics, but instead teach manipulation and political games. The word smithing and rhetorical trash that comes from our most senior officers is embarrassing.
If your system can't properly identify the best people through merit, then your system is the problem and they are obviously putting off their systemic retardation on these WO's. They seek ways to make people regret serving the country. Hegseth needs to nuke this. Hopefully this wasn't his idea.
I remember in the GWOT the g-level staffs took over training and planning; directed training that was often divergent from core MOS skills or simply neglected core MOS skills. Then starting around 2012 they start castigating the junior officers and NCOs saying they didn't know their core MOS skills etc etc. The duplicity and disrespect shown by our senior officers is disgusting. If they want to clean house, they need to can about 75% of the flag officers. Every military in history that has gotten as top heavy as ours has gone to suffer humiliating, catastrophic defeats. Going after the WO's is not the answer here. Go after the flag officers.
Posted on 2/21/26 at 9:23 am to Diego Ricardo
Don't forget there are warrants that don't have nearly the value that a 255N would have in the private sector.
Posted on 2/21/26 at 9:51 am to LemmyLives
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Don't forget there are warrants that don't have nearly the value that a 255N would have in the private sector.
No doubt, however I think this is not a system you want to implement in warrant specialties that have valuable private sector applicability.
If it were me in Hegseth's position, I would deploy this in specialties where there is simply less educational development investment and private sector competition for your talent.
Posted on 2/21/26 at 9:54 am to Diego Ricardo
I don’t think this is going to work out like they think.
A bunch of brain drain could be incoming and in some units that’s going to be really bad. Losing CWO 4’s and 5’s in certain jobs (say spec ops pilots) loses most of the combat experience.
A bunch of brain drain could be incoming and in some units that’s going to be really bad. Losing CWO 4’s and 5’s in certain jobs (say spec ops pilots) loses most of the combat experience.
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