Brandman...Earn your Master's in only 7 classes.

[dfrecore]

From what I've seen in other schools, it's not the rank itself, it's the associated schools which are usually a prerequisite for those ranks. In the Army it was schools like BNCOC or ANCOC (now SLC and ALC respectively).

For commissioned, it would probably be something covered in OCS and WOCS for the warrants (though the part about WO2 or higher is kind of weird)

I guess that's what I meant - the rank means that you've had some sort of specialized training that they will take into consideration, and automatically waive 5 courses - something along those lines.