HOT TOPIC S ***ATTENTION ALL SERVICE MEMBERS*** June 1, 2020 - Warrant Officer Selection Boards are currently scheduled for 13-17 July 2020 and 14-18 September 2020. When agents do return to the field, “now they’re in a leadership position, and they don’t know the job. Chief Warrant Officer Five Fitz is a native of Waynesboro, Penn. U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Eric Land, center, assigned to 5th Battalion, 7th Air Defense Regiment informs the Polish Air Defense Artillery officers … In the Guillen case, the Fort Hood report chided agents for not examining or taking custody of the alleged killer’s phone when they first interviewed him. But less busy assignments — in Germany, for example — allow agents to devote more time to key cases and be proactive in combating felony crimes. I've been in the Army a little over two years. NOTE: Must have completed at least 12 months (CONUS) or two-thirds the tour length (OCONUS) at current duty station prior to application submission. An Army special agent poses in a staged crime scene at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, as part of a photo shoot designed to promote and recruit warrant officers in the CID career field. QUANTICO, Va — The U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command is seeking first lieutenants and captains, from all military occupational specialties, interested in becoming CID Special Agents to submit applications to transition to a CID Special Agent warrant officer, MOS 311A. In order to close the gap in supervisory roles, a program was started to allow officers to resign their commission and become warrant officer agents. They’re burdened with administrative tasks, and though they supervise investigations, the “ridiculous amount of checklist driven requirements sidelines them to desk duty,” said one agent who became a warrant officer. “It would totally make sense to check that … but that’s not what they’re worried about,” one agent said. Agents say they were been told that elevating MPs within the organization helps deal with shortages of senior enlisted agents and warrant officer agents. To be considered for the program, applicants must have a bachelor's degree or higher in Criminal Justice, Forensic Science, Computer Science, Computer Forensics, Digital Forensics, Legal Studies, Accounting, Finance, Psychology or Biology. One agent Army Times spoke with compared the checklists to looking for a lost set of keys. "The MPIs have valued investigated skills and experience," said CID's Command Chief Warrant Officer Edgar Collins, who started his career as an MPI. All I do is sit at a computer and keep track of trackers for long hours of the day - often to 2000 and 2100. “We would spin our wheels and work, work, work these cases, and that eats up a lot of time.”. U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command news release . F. AR 601-100 (Appointment of Commissioned and Warrant Officers in the Regular Army), 21 November 2006. Army CID Warrant Officer Special Agent. “The MPIs possess valued training, investigated skills and experience,” CID’s Command Chief Warrant Officer 5 Joel Fitz, who served as an MPI early in his Army career, said. “None of the senior leaders have faith in MPI [military police investigators] to investigate anything,” an agent explained. Read the basic qualifications necessary to join the CID team. We are not accepting applications for the Officer to CID Warrant Officer Program at this time. Reserve Soldiers must inquire through a CID Reserve unit. “These Soldiers will undoubtedly bring a lot to the fight and have a positive impact on CID’s highly-skilled teams by providing what they have learned from the Military Police Corps. Those warrant officers, however, are not typically conducting investigations. For additional information, Active duty Soldiers may contact the CID Recruiting Operations Cell at USArmy.Join-CID@mail.mil or call 571-305-4348/ 4337/4369. “The real problem with the MP [officers] is that they’re trying to run CID units like normal Army units, and that is absolutely impossible to do.”. The base rank for Warrant Officers is Warrant Officer 1 (WO1). The end result is senior leaders focused on what they know how to do, which is lead a field MP unit and not a criminal investigative organization, according to the agent. L.J. The Air Force also allows officers to become OSI agents, unlike CID, helping fill out that organization’s leadership roles with agents. Applicants for the Warrant Officer Candidate School and Warrant Officer Flight Training program must: Have a high school diploma. Officer to CID Warrant Officer Program. If you are a college graduate considering a career as a federal law enforcement officer, check out the CID Direct Accessions Program. “It was just a bad program.”. QUANTICO, VA — As part of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command’s continued effort to recruit the best of the best to become special agents, CID is currently seeking military police investigators from Career Management Field 31 to become CID special agent warrant officers.