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  2. List of United States Navy enlisted rates - Wikipedia

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    On 29 September 2016, the United States Navy discontinued enlisted ratings after 241 years of use in an effort to modernize the classification system. Naval sailors were thereafter to be referred to solely by their rank and would hold a Navy Operations Specialty (NOS) instead of a rating.

  3. List of United States Navy ratings - Wikipedia

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    The rating of "Specialist" was discontinued in 1948. Since the establishment of the rating system, the U.S. Navy enlisted rating structure played a key role in career development, serving as a basis for training, detailing, advancement, and simply keeping tabs on several hundred thousand sailors. [3]

  4. History of United States Navy ratings - Wikipedia

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    On September 29, 2016, the United States Navy announced a plan to discontinue the enlisted ratings system. Enlisted sailors were to be referred to solely by their rank (e.g. Petty Officer) and would have held a “Navy Operations Specialty (NOS)“ instead of a rating.

  5. Category:United States Navy ratings - Wikipedia

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  6. Navy Enlisted Classification - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Talk:List of United States Navy ratings - Wikipedia

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    Relative size is adequate - You will probably see the top 5-8 ratings be >20% of navy, and the "bottom" 12 ratings <10%. - A personal perspective - the temporary discontinue of ratings may have been an aim/ message that a career sailor today has a much higher likelihood to change their rating during their career.

  8. Obsolete badges of the United States military - Wikipedia

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    Discontinued in the 1980s but a different version of it continues to be issued as a special skills badge in the U.S. Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps [20] Nuclear Reactor Operator Badges: Retired on 1 October 1990 [21] Jungle Expert Badge Retired in 1999 and reinvented in 2014 as the Jungle Expert Tab for USARPAC

  9. Data systems technician - Wikipedia

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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 to enlisted members who satisfactorily complete initial data systems technician "A" school training.