Rating Structure The U.S. Navy rating structure is confusing to most peopleoutside the organization. A brief overview of Navy enlisted rate and ratings follows. Two similar sounding terms are used to describe Navyenlisted status - rate and rating. Rate equates to military pay gradeand rating is one's occupational specialty. Petty officer third class (PO3) is a rate. Boatswain Mate is a rating. Used in combination, Boatswain Mate Third Class (BM3), defines both the rate, petty officer third class, and rating Boatswain Mate.
Pay Grade Pay grade constitutes a numberingsystem from junior to senior, and is linear across all five branches of the U.S.military. The lowest military enlisted pay grade is E-1 and thehighest E-9 in the Army as well as the Navy. Officer pay gradesinclude W-1 through W-5 for warrant officers and O-1 through O-10 forofficers. Enlisted personnel may be promoted from enlisted towarrant officer status and in some cases directly to officer status. Inexample, the writer served as an E-1 through E-7, W-1 through W-4, andO-2 through O-6, sixteen different pay grades in a four decadecareer.
Rate or rank? Rate, such as First ClassPetty Officer, describes the Navy enlisted pay grade E-6. Officers do not have rates but are said to have rank. Lieutenant(rank) describes a Naval officer of pay grade O-3. The officer'soccupational specialty is described in a numerical code.
Rating A Navy rating is defined as anoccupation that consists of specific skills and abilities. Eachrating has its own specialty badge which is worn on the left sleeve by allqualified men and women in that field. In the Navy and Coast Guard, pay grades E-4 through E-9 fall within a rating and reflect a distinctlevel of achievement within the promotion pyramid.
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Navy's enlisted occupational system was a product of more than 200 years of Naval evolution. The Navy of the United Colonies of the 1775 era offered only a few different jobs above the ordinary level of seaman. These included Boatswain's mate, Quartermaster, and Gunner's mate These were titles of the jobs that individuals were actually performing and became the basis for petty. Navy File Manual, 1941. When looking at U.S. Navy records, they are normally sorted by the Navy Filing Manual. Standard Subject Identification Codes, 1987, a Cold War version of the U.S. Navy filing manual. Ssic.pdf (5.9 MB PDF). Also see m5210-2.pdf (1 MB PDF) for a 2005 version. Boats of the United States Navy, Navships 250-452, 1967. Throughout the Cold War, America's adversaries understood that an attack on the United States, or its deployed forces, risked devastating retaliation by the Navy's technologically advanced and professionally manned submarine force. This exhibit highlights the trying conditions U.S. Navy Sailors endured during this time. Interesting artifacts in the Covert Submarine Operations exhibit include. Official website of the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), the largest of the U.S. Navy's five system commands. With a force of 74,000 civilian, military and contract support personnel, NAVSEA engineers, builds, buys and maintains the Navy's ships and submarines and their combat systems.
General ratings.Terratech: r&d labs download free. Broad occupational fields such as Electronics Technician, Machinist Mate or Electrician are general ratings. During World War I the Navy survived with but thirteen ratings. Through the years the Navy has used over 100 ratings with 60+ remaining in use today. In some cases ratings combine at the Senior Chief Petty Officer (E-8) or Master Chief Petty Officer (E-9) level. In example, CU Constructionman combines the Builder (BU), Engineering Aide (EA and) Steelworker (SW) Seabee ratings at the Senior Chief and Master Chief Petty Officer levels. Service ratings. Service ratings are subcategories of general ratings that require further specialized trainingand qualifications. They are established and deleted with servicerequirements and changes in personnel management philosophy. Inexample, Gunner's Mate, a general rating, has been at times divided intothe service ratings of Gunner's Mate Guns (GMG) and Gunner's MateMissiles (GMM). Service ratings are most used in the E-4 and E-5 pay grade with the ratings merging at the senior Petty Officer level.
Navy Enlisted Classifications (NEC). Numerical codesappended to a rating are heavily used in the modern Navy to indicate specializedqualifications. For example, a Master-at-Arms First Class with aspecialty of handling drug detecting dogs, is a MA1 (2005). A listof these NEC codes is provided in the Navy Personnel Command's reference library NAVPERS 180086F. The pdf file located off site. Note: NEC's are undergoing major revision (July 2017). Emergency ratings. Emergency ratings may be established in time of war. World War Two saw twenty-twoNavy Specialist ratings and the Coast Guard used six additional Specialist ratings. The term Specialist evolved to Emergency Service Rating and finally to Emergency Rating in the thirty-two years of use. Emergency rating badges are distinguished by a letter of the alphabet enclosed in a diamond below the eagle. One example is Welfare & Recreation Leader, a 'W' inside a diamond. This emergency rating most often worked with the chaplain. The rate was discontinued following World War Two. For a number of years the chaplain's assistant was a Yeoman with NEC 2525. The YN (2525) became a full fledged rating in 1979 as the present day Religious Program Specialist, RP.
Non rate A non rate (not rated) is oneserving in pay grade E-1 to E-3. The non rate is further subdividedby a general career path, aviation (airman), deck (seaman), engineering(fireman), construction (constructionman), and medical (hospitalman).
Many bluejackets enter advanced training schools followingrecruit training to complete the entry level requirements for a careerfield. Graduates are designated in an occupational specialty eventhough they have not achieved Petty Officer status of pay grade E-4 andup. CSSN Jane P. Jones has passed the specific careerfield qualifications for entry into the general rating of Culinary Specialist, but is not a petty officer. CSdenotes the career field of Culinary Specialist and SN is the abbreviation forSeaman, the non rated E-3 pay grade. Sailors who go directly to a station, ship or squadron withoutspecialized school training following recruit training are encouraged to select a careerfield. Through correspondence courses provided for self study and on-the-job training (OJT), they mayqualify for entry into a rating. This path is called'striking for rate.' A seaman working in the deckdepartment of a ship will by work assignment find herself most often in trainingfor the deck rating of Boatswain Mate. Many 'strikers' will ventureinto other departments to become a Yeoman, Damage Controlman or other rating as openings occur. Manytechnical ratings are restricted to formal school graduates and thereby closed to'strikers.' Having experienced the width and depth of Navy life, most'strikers' become excellent petty officers.
1905 - MANUAL FOR DIVERS - HANDBOOK FOR SEAMEN GUNNERS Prepared at the Naval Torpedo Station. (Printed in) Washington, D.C. (Reprint cover, blue, top left). Reprint: Sundiver Productions Company of Crystal River, Florida, prepared a new edition compiled and edited by Joe Strykowski in 1997. This is a 66-page, A5 size, perfect bound softcover book with several mono photographs and drawings. I'm not sure if the 22 pages of photographs and drawings, relevant to the time of the original publication, were part of the 1905 book, or added later; I think they were added for this reprint. (See comment below) Of the original (a;s0 see comments below): there is no indication of the original format, perhaps as per the reprint. Of the seven chapters, the following subjects are presented: Requirement of divers; Description of Diving Apparatus; Accidents That May Happen; Rules for Resuscitation; Signals; Duties of the Person in Charge of the Diver and of the Divers Tenders and Assistants; Preparation and Operation of App[aratus; Method of Instruction; Care and Preservation of Apparatus; Diving Outfit; Pressure at Different Depths.
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As with the reprint of diver J.B.Green's 'Diving With and Without Armour', perhaps there should be a warning printed not to ‘try this at home' - not to use the procedures and directive mentioned. Some are so ludicrous by today's standards that no one in their right mind would use this small booklet as a modern day diving manual, but you never know! Most of the advise is relevent anyway - but not all. It is nevertheless a superb book from the point of entertainment, and giving a first hand indication of what the novice diver had to go through. The most humourous chapter is the first, the physical and mental attributes of a diver. He must first of all be of a phlegmatic temperament - my dictionary defines this as 1. sluggish, dull, 2. calm, cool. Do they go together? He must not be short-necked, full-blooded or with a strong tendency to nosebleed. I guess if he was short-necked, he would not be able to see out of the front glass - but at least he could play rugby. Of course, he must not perspire freely, andnot to be a hard drinker, nor to have suffered frequently or severely from venereal disease. Men who have long trunks with well developed chest and loins generally make good divers. So far, I would have made it, especially as I have been told I have great loins! [[ps-reprint]
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Also located: 1905 MANUAL FOR DIVERS - HANDBOOK FOR SEAMEN GUNNERS. (Originally) prepared at the Naval Torpedo Station. Reprint: Hardback, green covers, 44 printed pages, plus 12 printed pages of photo plates. Dimesions: 14.5 cms tall by 11 cms wide I think this is an accurately reproduced copy of the 1905 US Navy diving manual as it indicates 'Grateful acknowledgement to the MUSEUM OF THE MAN IN THE SEA for the loan of William Bladder's original manual for this reproduction'. It was published and sold by the HDS (USA), I bought this copy around the year 2000. Approximately A6 in size, the main manual is professionally bound in hard green covers. It has seven chapters and twelve photo plates that do seem in keeping with the period of the manual, the text has been reproduced as a document, the manual has not been scanned, presumably with the exception of the plates. The seven chapters are: Chapter 1 - 'Requirements for the Diver' and 'Description of Diving Apparatus'. Chapter 2 - 'Accidents that May Happen' and 'Rules for Resusitation'. Chapter 3 - 'Signals' and 'Duties of the Person in Charge, of the Diver, and of the Diver's Tender and Assistants'. Chapter 4 - 'Preperation and Operation for the Apparatus'. Chapter 5 - 'Method of Instruction'. Chapter 6 - 'Care and Preservation of Apparatus' Chapter 7 - 'Diving Outfit' and 'Pressure at Different Depths. The twelve photo plates are 'Diver Ready to Descend', 'The Air Pump', 'Life Line, Hose and Suit', 'Bands, Cuffs, Expanders, etc', 'The Breastplate', 'The Helmet', 'Chest Weights', 'Belt and Weights', 'The Shoes', 'Crinoline, Knife and Belt', 'Electric Light' and 'Diving Launch'. The plates in this HDS (USA) edition are a lot more in keeping with the period of the manual so I think they are from the original. [pt]
MANUAL FOR DIVERS 1905 Prepared at the Naval Torpedo Station, Washington D.C.1905 (Issued to Seamen Gunners in the US Navy). Reproduction by Best Publications, USA. This is a wonderful reprint of a most historic and fascinatingmanual. The seven chapters include ‘requirements for divers', ‘ descriptionof diving apparatus', accidents', ‘rules for resuscitation' (do not standthe diver on his head), ‘signals', ‘preparation and care of equipment',‘pressure at depth'. Softcover, 44 pages plus 22 mono plates. $35.00
This row images from HDS(USA) reprint edition:
This row images from Sundiver reprint edition.
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Further comment from ps: From pt's description, it does appear that the HDS (USA) edition is a faithful reproduction in being, apparently, a direct 'copy' of the original. The photographic images are of poor quality, much less than those of the Sundiver Productions edition of 1997. Note also that the Sundiver edition has 22 pages of photographs, whilst the HDS(USA) edition has just the twelve. Hidden in plain sight ellis amdur. The Sundiver edition also has a full dress diver illustration on the inside front cover, and a photo of a full dress diver on a platformk on the inslide back cover. The Sundiver edition also has a stylized ephoto of a seated standard drewss diver on the back cover. It is not likely that these would have been in the original. Somewhat confirming that the Sundiver edition does not contain the original photographs is given by the acknowledgement that the photos are courtesy of the U.S.Navy. And note also that there are no common photos between the two editions.
Was there a jump of over a decade to the next edition of the Diving Manual?