


PS-Personnel Specialists are like the human resources coordinators for the Navy, providing enlisted personnel with information and counseling about Navy occupations, education and job training, requirements for promotion, and rights and benefits.In this rating, sailors will interview personnel, prepare and deliver talks, establish and maintain liaison with local media, and recruit civilian personnel into the Navy. NC-Navy Counselor is a position not open to entry-level enlisted personnel since it requires a thorough understanding of the Navy and how it works.They write, edit, and produce news articles shoot and edit video layout and design content online and in print manage and conduct interviews act as public affairs officers. MC-Mass Communications Specialists are the public relations representatives of the Navy.They also assist personnel in filing claims and conducting their investigations. LN-Legalmen (Paralegals) provide legal assistance to fellow sailors in a variety of areas and prepare records for such proceedings as courts-martial and courts of inquiry."New ranks, NATO-style amendments to military instructions".Sea Breeze 2021: Ukraine, 29 NATO Allies to conduct joint exercise.Īs one may notice by looking at the Image 5, there might be a bit of confusion with the equivalency in ranks of LCdr and Lt(N). On 17 October 2019, the parliament of Ukraine approved a change to the rank structure of enlisted in order to conform to the NATO STANAG 2116 standardization. The rank insignia below are as worn on the field uniform. Since 01 October 2019 a new rank system was introduced in the Swedish Armed Forces. See the Navy pay chart below for further details. Navy pay is determined primarily by your rate/rank and years of service, and adjusts based on whether you’re Enlisted or an Officer, Active Duty (full time) or a Navy Reserve Sailor (part time). United States Navy (USN) officer rank insignia. Let’s get straight to the point: A Navy salary is just one aspect of all you’ll earn as a Sailor. Navy, only officers carry the term ‘rank’, while it is proper to refer to an enlisted sailor’s pay grade as ‘rate’. In the United States Navy, a rate is the military rank of an enlisted sailor, indicating where an enlisted sailor stands within the chain of command, and also defining one’s pay grade.

OR-8 Chief petty officers 2nd class (CPO2).OR-9 Chief petty officer 1st class (CPO1).Petty officers (senior non-commissioned officer): This is also when a recruit chooses a field: fireman, seaman, constructionman, hospitalman, or airman. They learn fundamental skills and Navy culture. Seaman Recruit (SR/E-1) This is the first rank that an enlisted sailor has when they enter the Navy. Non-commissioned (enlisted) members of the RCN have NATO ratings from OR-1 to OR-9. Here are the Navy Ranks you'll move through if you start out as an enlisted sailor. The highest position occupied in the current RCN structure is OF-8, a vice-admiral who serves as the Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy (CRCN, or informally yet respectfully: “ The Kraken”) and Chief of the Naval Staff. Current RCN ranks structureĬommissioned officers of the Canadian Armed Forces have ranks ranging from the NATO standard ranks of OF-1 to OF-9. Let’s briefly explore the rank system and insignia in the RCN, USN, Swedish and Ukrainian navies with reference to NATO standard rank codes. There are differences and similarities, and sometimes it gets confusing. Military ranks of the UK (primarily) have been used as a basis for harmonization with NATO. This became quite important (and challenging!) in the recent years, when multinational operations and exercises gather more than a dozen of nations and thousands of service members. One of the skills required from military members, in order to support NATO interoperability with allies and partners, is the ability to recognize other nation’s military ranks.
