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  2. United States Navy officer rank insignia - Wikipedia

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    In the United States Navy, officers have various ranks.Equivalency between services is by pay grade.United States Navy commissioned officer ranks have two distinct sets of rank insignia: On dress uniform a series of stripes similar to Commonwealth naval ranks are worn; on service khaki, working uniforms (Navy Working Uniform [NWU], and coveralls), and special uniform situations (combat ...

  3. List of United States Navy ratings - Wikipedia

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    Beginning in June 2016, then Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, Michael D. Stevens, oversaw a review of the Navy's existing enlisted rating system. [4] After Stevens's retirement, a group of senior enlisted leaders came to the conclusion that the Navy needed to replace its current enlisted system and announced the changes on 29 September 2016 with the release of NAVADMIN 218/16.

  4. Personnel of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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    Chief Warrant Officer (CWO) pay grades range from W-1 to the highest rank of W-5. United States Navy CWOs are officers whose role is to provide leadership and skills for the most difficult and demanding operations in a very specific technical specialty. They occupy a niche that is not as well served by the line officer community, who tend to ...

  5. United States Navy rank insignia - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Navy officer rank insignia This page was last edited on 9 October 2017, at 22:17 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...

  6. List of United States Navy enlisted rates - Wikipedia

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    In the United States Navy, a rate is the military rank of an enlisted sailor, indicating where the sailor stands within the chain of command, and also defining one's pay grade. However, in the U.S. Navy, only officers carry the term rank, while it is proper to refer to an enlisted sailor's pay grade as rate.

  7. United States Navy staff corps - Wikipedia

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    In 1948, female Naval officer uniforms were standardized using the current corps insignia. The Dental Corps was established in 1912, and its current insignia was adopted the following year. The Medical Service Corps was established in 1947; from 1941 until 1947, these officers had been part of the Hospital Corps, which previously had contained ...

  8. List of United States Naval officer designators - Wikipedia

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    As part of the U.S. Navy's Active–Reserve Integration (ARI) initiative that "operationalized" the Navy's Reserve component, the term "U.S. Naval Reserve" was superseded by "U.S. Navy Reserve", and the term USNR was discontinued as a matter of Total Force policy in 2005. All officers in the U.S. Navy now use the term USN with their rank titles.

  9. Template : United States uniformed services comparative ranks

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    [1] - US DoD, The United States Military Rank Insignia All Warrant Officer grades are authorized, but not used by the Air Force [2] - Office of the Law Revision Counsel. "U.S. Code TITLE 42-THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE, section 207(a)-Grades, ranks, and titles of commissioned corps (2006)" (PDF).