Giving out Crew Medals

Originally Posted by Kptlt. Siegmann

Warrant Officers (which make up the Petty Officer class in SH3) are in their own "category" so to speak. a Chief Senior Warrant Officer in game would be equivalent to the US Navy's CWO4 or CWO5. It would be pointless to become an Ensign (Sub-Lieutenant in-game) from that rank, so that's why I think the game and SH3C doesn't permit that.

Enlisted (sailors in-game) personnel IRL who don't remain in the enlisted ranks as NCOs in their career usually become Warrant Officers or Commissioned Officers, but not both, seeing as that's rather pointless.

Warrant Officers are specialists in their specific designator, such as ordnance (in the case of my dad), and come from the enlisted ranks where as Commissioned Officers are more general or broad in their duties.

Forgive me if I made an error, but I believe all of that is fact.


Ok, now to make sense out of that.
Yes "Sailors" can be promoted to "Petty Officers"
No "Petty Officers" can't be promoted to "Officers"

To add to that, Warrant Officers in the USN often are more respected than commissioned officers as they've been in the service much longer and have more experience leading their sailors than their commissioned counterparts.

Enlisted sailors can become commissioned officers but only on limited duty status.