It should also be known that 'warrent officers'
were so designated originally as they were to
serve based upon a 'warrent' rather than a 'commission'
and hence served at the suffurance of those who
could 'press warrents'.
This of course is NOT the sort of thing one brings up
to one's WO when noting that there were those who's
current service rested upon the fact, as was the
case with 'mort', that he was Standing Up when the
Texas Ranger's Entered the Bar, and thus left the
impression upon the court that he must have 'started'
the fight. Mort would survive two tours in country,
the later as an 'exchange' to keep his little brother
out of vietnam.
So the notion of 'service on a warrent' really DID
precede the vietnam and korean wars, and has been
a time honored method going back to a wide variety
of Native American Groups that would use such
groups as 'the contraries' as an alternative to
having penal colonies....
Clearly if one is going to 'risk all' to break
the law, one might as well do penance in a foxhole.
ciao
drieux