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From left to right: the service dress blue rating badge for a special warfare operator first class and a boatswain's mate second class. United States Navy ratings are general enlisted occupations used by the U.S. Navy since the 18th century, which denote the specific skills and abilities of the sailor.
The badge of the Master Chief Petty Officer of the U.S. Navy, worn on a service dress blue uniform's sleeve. 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.
The United States Navy enlisted warfare designations represent the achievement of a qualification and entitles the member to wear the associated insignia.When awarded in accordance with appropriate guidelines, enlisted sailors are authorized to place the designator in parentheses immediately after the member’s rate abbreviation, for example, MM1(SW) Smith, HM2(CAC) Jones.
The Navy Enlisted Classification (NEC) system supplements the rating designators for enlisted members of the United States Navy.A naval rating and NEC designator are similar to the Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) designators used in the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps and the Air Force Specialty Code (AFSC) used in the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Space Force.
This rating was disestablished in 1993 and was absorbed into the PS rating (which further merged into ME). [10] Fire Control Technician: FT This rating was disestablished in July 2003 and was absorbed into the ET rating. [10] Active in the Navy. Quartermaster: QM This rating was disestablished in July 2003 and was absorbed into the BM and OS ...
The rating abbreviation is QM. The symbol used for the rating and worn on uniforms is a ship's wheel. [3] The colloquial form of address for a quartermaster is "Wheels". On U.S. Navy submarines, the job of a quartermaster is done by a qualified navigation electronics technician (NAV-ET).
The rating of armourer was also in use as an assistant to the gunner, as was the rating of carpenter's mate for members of the ship's carpenter's crew. Informally, the shipboard title of yeoman was also frequently used, even though this would not be an official rating of the United States Navy until 1835.
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