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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.
This is not to be confused with the term "rating", which refers to one's area of occupational specialization within the enlisted Navy (see below and also List of United States Navy ratings). Associated with the enlisted pay grades is a numbering system from the most junior enlisted sailor ("E-1") to the most senior enlisted sailor ("E-9").
Air traffic controller (United States Navy) Aircrew survival equipmentman; Aviation boatswain's mate; Aviation electrician's mate; Aviation electronics technician (United States Navy) Aviation machinist's mate; Aviation maintenance administrationman; Aviation ordnanceman; Aviation structural mechanic; Aviation support equipment technician
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 ...
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The History of the United States Navy ratings spans more than 200 years of U.S. history from the United Colonies of the 1775 era to the current age of the 21st century United States Navy. Navy ratings in America were first created in 1775, during the American Revolutionary War, for use by the Continental Navy. After securing independence, the ...
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The rating badge for data systems technician, a helium atom with input/output arrows. The United States Navy occupational rating of data systems technician (abbreviated as DS ) was a designation given by the Bureau of Naval Personnel ( BUPERS ) to enlisted members who satisfactorily complete initial data systems technician "A" school training.