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Pay grades [1] are used by the eight structurally organized uniformed services of the United States [2] (Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, Coast Guard, Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps), as well as the Maritime Service, to determine wages and benefits based on the corresponding military rank of a member of the services.
Commissioned officers in the Coast Guard are line officers, unlike the Navy, which has a staff corps to identify certain career fields. Coast Guard officers hold pay grades ranging from O-1 to O-10 and have the same rank structure as the Navy.
[2d] - Office of the Law Revision Counsel U.S. Code (2007) TITLE 37-PAY AND ALLOWANCES OF THE UNIFORMED SERVICE, section 101(3)-Definitions "The term “uniformed services” means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Public Health Service" [3] - NOAA CC, About NOAA Corps
Command Master Chief Petty Officers (CMC) are the senior most E-9 enlisted member of a Coast Guard unit and are senior advisors to their unit's commanding officer. [10] Area, Force, Reserve, and Coast Guard Master Chief Petty Officer: AMCPO, RFMC, MCPOCGRF and MCPOCG
The current Air Force officer rank names and insignia were taken from the Army upon the establishment of the Air Force as a separate service in 1947. The insignia have been essentially unchanged since then, except for a brief period during the 1990s, when then-Air Force Chief of Staff General Merrill A. McPeak redesigned the service dress uniform.
In January 2010, the Air Force returned HYT limits to pre-2003 levels. [4]On 1 August 2017, the Navy extended the HYT for active component sailors to 10 years from 8 years for third class petty officers, to 16 years from 14 years for second class petty officers, and to 22 years from 20 years for first class petty officers.
Pay-grade of O-3 (Captain in Army, Marine Corps and Air Force; Lieutenant in Navy and Coast Guard) or above. FAO training varies (depending candidate's skills at selection), but usually takes a minimum of 3–5 years before FAOs are qualified for operations:
The pay for an officer trainee, however, is equal to an E-5 on the enlisted pay scale, unless the candidate previously achieved a higher enlisted rank than E-5, e.g., an E-7 who becomes a candidate would continue to receive E-7 pay, and so on.