Warrant Officer Information (UNCLASSIFIED)

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MN Warrant Officer Strength: 211 assigned/224 authorized (94%) as of: 1
November 2009

FY09 was an outstanding year for both our State (Camp Ripley) and Federal (Ft
Rucker) Warrant Officer Candidate Schools.

MN graduated a new high, 18 new Warrant Officer One/WO1 from our State
course. We also graduated another 21 new Warrant Officer One/WO1 from the
Federal course at Ft Rucker AL.

Along with Inter-State Transfers, Re-Appointments, Certificate of Eligibility
holders, MN appointed 47 warrants officers in FY09.

FY10 seems to be on the same track as last year. Currently, we are working
17 Pre-determination Packets (PDP) for our State Warrant Candidate School.
Twelve (12) more are in the works for the Federal course. I'm anticipating
our Federal numbers will increase throughout the year.

We are currently in the top five in percentage (94%) of warrant officers
assigned throughout the nation and in the top ten in total number assigned
(211).

Attrition seems to big our biggest concern. Last year, 25 warrant officers
were separated from the MNARNG. The majority of those were CW2 and below.
(Retirement)
I have asked our fulltime staff to address this issue and develop a COA.

I wish to thank our Senior Leadership, RRC, BN OICs, State CSM for all the
support given to this program. Without each of these leaders, those gain
numbers above would have been impossible.

Also, a BIG THANK YOU, goes out to CW3 Tina Stalboerger, CW3 Jeff Jansen, CW2
Glenn Feitl and WO1 Jennifer Diaz (our fulltime support staff) for their
dedication and devotion to our Warrant Officer program.

Our goal for FY10: 224/224 (100%); fill critically short MOS's (i.e. MI, SC,
FA, EN); attrition 5% or below.

CW5 Steven R. Wensman
Command Chief Warrant Officer-CCWO
Minnesota Army National Guard

Steven R. Wensman
CW5, GS, MNARNG
Command Chief Warrant Officer
W:(651)268-8218
C:(651)269-2580
H:(651)739-2295
"some people dream of success...while
others wake up and work hard at it"

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Warrant Officer Information (UNCLASSIFIED)

MN Warrant Officer current strength as of: 1 December 2008

195 assigned/224 authorized (87%)

MN State Warrant Officer Candidate School (WOCS)(Camp Ripley):

Starts: 9-11 January 2009
Estimating 20+ warrant officer candidates (have been averaging 5-9
candidates)

Possible appointment this FY09: 38 new warrants w/4 Certificate of
Eligibility (COE) holders

Pending six (6) warrant losses this FY.

Fulltime warrant officer staff:

CW5 Steve Wensman (CCWO) (651-268-8218)
CW3 Tina Stalboerger (WOCS coordinator) (320-616-2642)
CW2 Jeff Jansen (Recruiter) (320-980-5853)
WO1 Glenn Feitl (Recruiter) (651-281-3867)
WO1 Jennifer Diaz (Admin Spt) (651-282-4008)

Warrant Officer Branch Mentors:

CW5 Barry Larsen - AG
CW5 Ronald Fenske - QM
CW4 Ernest Oldakowski - OD
CW4 Paul Adamson - AV
CW3 Dave Gunderson - SC
CW2 James Strait - 922A (Food Service Warrants)
CW2 Justin Baker - MI
CW2 Sean Deuth - FA

Steve

Steven R. Wensman
CW5, GS, MNARNG
Command Chief Warrant Officer

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