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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.
Logistics specialists typically fall under the command or supervision of commissioned officers of the U.S. Navy Supply Corps.The exception to this is in the case of those sailors in the logistics specialist rating who hold the Navy Enlisted Classification of independent storekeeper, which trains logistics specialist 1st class petty officers and above to operate independently of a supply officer.
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 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.
Command master chief petty officer: Master chief petty officer: Command senior chief petty officer: Senior chief petty officer: Chief petty officer: Petty officer first class: Petty officer second class: Petty officer third class: Seaman: Seaman apprentice: Seaman recruit U.S. Coast Guard [23
[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).
In the U.S. Coast Guard the Operations specialist rate was formed by combining the radarman (RD) and telecommunications specialist rate (TC). When the radarman rating was split up into OS, electronics technician (ET), and electronic warfare technician (EW) ratings, the original RD rating badge continued to be used by the operations specialist ...
Current Navy policy dictates that Supply Officers complete two operational tours and obtain a warfare pin for consideration for Lieutenant Commander (O-4) boards. Supply Corps officers are eligible for command of supply units (e.g. a Supply Corps officer is always in command of Naval Cargo Handling Battalions).