Warrant officers hold warrants from their service secretary and are specialists and experts in certain military technologies or capabilities. The lowest ranking warrant officers serve under a warrant, but they receive commissions from the president upon promotion to chief warrant officer 2. These commissioned warrant officers are direct representatives of the president of the United States. They derive their authority from the same source as commissioned officers but remain specialists, in contrast to commissioned officers, who are generalists.
CW2 and up are commissioned. Cadets are not.
I’m curious now. I’ll check Title 10.
All Naval Academy students, men and women, are called midshipmen, which is a rank between chief warrant officer and ensign in the Navy.
Interesting. I'm still not convinced, though.