Rates and Ratings
Defined as an occupational specialty in the Navy.
What is a rating?
An exam held annually in January, and a selection board held in July are requirements for this/these rank's advancements.
What is an E7?
What is a Seaman Recruit? E1
Red.
What color do line thrower gunners wear?
Senior NCOs are collectively known as this.
What is the Chief's Mess?
Everyone in the Navy has this which defines a person's relative standing in the Navy.
What is a paygrade?
Semi-annual exams held in March and September, along with TIR, awards, and performance evaluations are steps toward this/these rank(s) advancement.
What are promotional necessities for E4 - E6?
This rank's insignia contains 2 chevrons below the crow.
What is a Petty Officer Second Class? E5
Yellow.
What color does the POIC wear?
What is the Division Officer?
The combination of letters and numbers is used to describe and identify a sailors ___.
What is a rate?
A service school which trains fleet personnel who are en route to, or are members of a ship's company. An NEC is not awarded.
What is Class F service school? (Hint: F = Fleet)
These ranks wear collar devices as opposed to rating badges.
What are the rank insignias for Chief Petty Officer (E7) through Master Chief Petty Officer (E9)?
Blue.
What color do line handlers and deck riggers wear?
What is a Bullseye?
BONUS: Sailors in these programs seeking to advance into a specific rating is considered this.
What are the Professional Apprenticeship Career Track programs (PACT)?
BONUS: Striker
Entry Career Field, Rating Career Field, Special Career Field, Tracking, and Planning.
What are the five types of NEC Codes?
Enlisted personnel will wear rating badges with the exception of ______ ______ when they wear utilities and coveralls.
What are non-rated personnel?
White.
What color do the officer or CPO safety observers wear?
Identification of personnel on active or inactive duty with special skills and billets. Example: LCAC Loadmasters
BONUS: SAY FULL NAME
What are NEC Codes? *Naval Enlisted Classification Codes*
The names of these common ratings:
AD
QM
BM
What are the abbreviations for:
Aviation Machinist's Mate
Quartermaster
Boatswain's Mate?
Recommendation from CO, physical readiness, career waypoint-PACT approval, and completion of selectee leadership course are all considered necessary for advancements for this/these rates.
What are general promotional requirements for advancement for E2 - E9?
Senior most enlisted service member within a command, and is responsible for the health, welfare, morale, training of, etc. of the enlisted personnel. Their insignia contains an inverted five-point star.
What is a Command Master Chief? CMC
Purple.
What do fuel handlers wear?
The three billets overseen by the Leading CPO in the divisional Chain of Command.
What is the Work Center Supervisor, Supply Parts Petty Officer, and the Watch Section Leaders?