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Old Salt
Posts: 438
Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL | Subject: Rate vs Rating
It has always been my understanding that enlisted sailors don’t have “rank”. Their somewhat equivalent is rating (occupation) and rate which is an indicator of pay grade. However, the terms are often used interchangeably such as in“Choose your rate, choose your fate”. On another website a retired USN O-5 is claiming that rate is merely shorthand for rating. Have things changed?
Edited by 610ET 2017-11-08 2:43 PM
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Plankowner
Posts: 9165
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Rate vs Rating
Not to my knowledge. |
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 715
Location: Conway, NH | Subject: RE: Rate vs Rating
The use of the word "rank" for Navy enlisted personnel is incorrect. The term is "rate." The rating badge is a combination of rate (pay grade, as indicated by the chevrons) and rating (occupational specialty, as indicated by the symbol just above the chevrons).
http://www.navy.mil/navydata/ranks/rankrate.html
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Old Salt
Posts: 438
Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL | Subject: RE: Rate vs Rating
mike652 - 2017-11-08 12:04 PM The use of the word "rank" for Navy enlisted personnel is incorrect. The term is "rate." The rating badge is a combination of rate (pay grade, as indicated by the chevrons) and rating (occupational specialty, as indicated by the symbol just above the chevrons). http://www.navy.mil/navydata/ranks/rankrate.html
He was sent that link but later deleted it.
Oh well.
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