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Yeoman School, New York Navy Yard c. 1910-19 Supply class at Yeoman School, New York Navy Yard c. 1920 Ship's writers' class, Yeoman School, Hampton Roads NTS, VA c. 1920 USS Prometheus, ship's repair office c. 1919-20. Preliminary classes, lasting between 4–6 weeks, would cover arithmetic, spelling, composition, and general naval knowledge.
For example, if a sailor has the pay-grade of E-5 (rank of petty officer second class) and the rating of boatswain's mate, then combining the two—boatswain's mate second class (BM2)—defines both rank and rating in formal address or epistolary salutation. Thus, boatswain's mate second class (BM2) would be that sailor's rate. [1]
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.
The former Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, Steven S. Giordano, said: "Sailors would no longer be called, 'Yeoman Second Class' or YN2, for example," he said. "Instead they will be 'Second Class Petty Officer, or 'Petty Officer'. However, Sailors' ranks will not change: an E-7 will remain a Chief Petty Officer and an E-3 will remain a ...
Petty officer second class is the fifth enlisted rank in the U.S. Navy [1] and the U.S. Coast Guard, just above petty officer third class and below petty officer first class, and is a non-commissioned officer. It is equivalent to the rank of sergeant in the Army and Marine Corps, and staff sergeant in the Air Force.
In the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, the term rate refers to an enlisted member's pay grade (i.e. relative seniority or rank), while rating refers to occupational field. In the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, an enlisted sailor is most commonly addressed, both verbally and in correspondence, by a combination of their rate and ...
The National Yeoman (F) Association began in 1926 and was chartered in 1936 under Title 36 of the United States Code with Pub. L. 676–74 (menu; GPO has not yet published law). [13] The last surviving Yeoman (F) was Yeoman Second Class (F) Charlotte Winters, who died on March 27, 2007, in Boonsboro, Maryland.
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 ...