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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.
Rates are displayed on a rating badge, which is a combination of rate and rating. E-2s and E-3s have color-coded group rate marks based on their career field. Personnel in pay grade E-1, since 1996, do not have an insignia to wear. [2]
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 Navy indicates its "ratings" by a two or three character code based on the actual name of the rating. These range from ABE (aviation boatswain's mate – equipment) to YN (Yeoman). Each sailor and chief petty officer wears a rating badge indicating their rating as part of their rate (rank) insignia on full dress and service dress uniforms.
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.
A U.S. Navy engineman at work aboard the USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) in March 2003. Enginemen operate, service and repair internal combustion engines used to power some of the Navy's ships and most of the Navy's small craft. Most Enginemen work with diesel engines.
The Navy’s ability to build lower-cost warships that can shoot down Houthi rebel missiles in the Red Sea depends in part on a 25-year-old laborer who previously made parts for garbage trucks.
AK – Aviation Storekeeper [1] (outdated; merged into LS rating) ALNAV – All Navy; ALPO – Assistant Lead Petty Officer; AM – Aviation Structural Mechanic [1] AME – Aviation Structural Mechanic – Environmental (Air Conditioning, Oxygen, and Ejection Seats), Aviation Mechanical Exception; AMH – Aviation Structural Mechanic – Hydraulics