Bullshit!
You cant tell me there isnt a "Right Shoulder Patch Mafia" amongst Warrants. Everything in our community is based around some college fraternity style right of passage bullshit. Amongst WOJG's if your not prior service, your a Beta till proven otherwise, the priors get a bit of a pass especially if they were combat arms.
Come into the military as a Warrant direct, and all you deal with the first two years is having anything you say treated as suspect. How could you know anything about ____ you didnt do a job you hated for 4-9 years before becoming a Warrant.
You can call bullshit if you want, but that hasn't been my experience. Once you put on wings, what you did prior to WOCS doesn't mean shit! Everyone is treated equally like shit as a WOJG. If you manage to carry a big chip on your shoulder after WOCS (and I have seen only a few who tried), you can count on being a permanent RL3-tard. Your dreams of flying in the Army turn into a nightmare as every flight becomes a checkride. That is what I have seen.
The warrant officer mafia is a tight group. It is easy to see who is on the inside and who is on the outside. It took me several years to be accepted as an insider and I joined the Army with 1500 hrs in the 'hawk. I had made several Navy deployments; one even to Somalia. I had no patch and thanks to a stellar individual who came from the Navy before me, everything I did was scutinized. I didn't whine about it. I didn't expect to be treated special.
It may seem unfair that a deployment to Korea isn't treated like one that gets you a patch on your right arm, but in my unit a patch on your right arm only gets you treated differently if it was earned while wearing AVIATOR wings on your left chest. Even then, if it wasn't with the current unit, you are still suspect. Granted, I am talking about a guard unit without the constant turnover of active duty, but the same should apply. It's not what you did before that counts. It's what you are doing now. I never saw anyone get special treatment and if they thought they deserved it..well it didn't turn out well for them.
Perhaps what you saw as special treatment for having a right arm patch was really given because the WOJG had prior experience in the Army. A street to seat guy is going to have a much steeper learning curve dealing with all things Army/military. Someone familiar with the 'system' may have an easier transition, which could be mistaken for receiving special treatment.