Week 3 Pro Topic – Navy Enlisted Personnel

 

Introduction

-          More have college degrees and credits; Higher training than most receive

 

Classification

-          Military Enlistment Processing Station (MEPs) – Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), Classification Interviews

-          Navy Enlisted Classifications (NECs)

o        Assigned at completion of school / special training

-          Recruits classified by either NECs or ASVAB

 

Service Schools

-          Selection – rate, time in service, current assignment, quotas, operational schedule of sailor

-          Five Types

o        Class A – Basic tech knowledge (NEC)

o        Class C – Advanced skills, techniques (NEC)

o        Class E – Professional ed and ac degree

o        Class F – Trains fleet personnel; Refreshers, operator, maintenance, short tech training <13 days (no NEC)

o        Class R  – Boot camp at Recruit Training Center, Great Lakes, IL

§         Prepares recruit for military life with basic skills and knowledge of military subjects

Rating – a duty calling for certain skills and aptitudes

-          Level of rate is your paygrade

-          Badges – Upper left sleeve: Crow (wings up, head right), Chevrons, Specialty Mark (b/w chevrons & crow)

-          One of your classmates distributed a gouge on the ratings you need to know especially well

 

Enlisted Rates

-          Non-rated: E-1 to E-3

o        Stripes are 3in at 30deg; lower end at front of arm; upper left sleeve

o        Fields (Specific Job is called striker)

o        Black / White stripes: Seaman (SN), Hospitalman (HN), Dentalman (HN)

o        Red: Fireman (FN) … Green: Airman (AN) … Blue: Constructionman (CN)

-          Petty Officer (E4+; rated personnel) Insignia

o        Dark blue on whites … On blue uniforms: white crow & specialty mark & red chevrons (gold chevrons, silver eagle & specialty mark for good 12+)

o        Chief Petty Officer: One rocker / arch

o        Senior: single silver star above eagle head

o        Master: two silver stars; one above each wing

-          Addressing Petty Officers: E4 to E6: Petty Officer or Hospital Corpsman Third Class or HM3 … E7+: Chief, Senior Chief, Master Chief

 

Enlisted Advancement

-          E1 to E3 advanced solely on time in rate and CO recommendation

-          Chief of Naval Personnel decides how many can be advanced in each rate above E-3

-          Promotion to E-4 - E-6 based on an exam, time in rate, and an evaluation (total score is called Final Multiple Score)

o        The number of petty officers needed is taken from the top scorers

-          Promotion to E-7: similar to E-6; min. score required then paperwork sent to CPO Selection Board

-          Promotion to E-8 to E-9 is done similar to officers (promotion board only)

-          Advancement Summation


o        Time in rate

o        Understanding of training manuals

o        Completed service school

o        Citizenship and security clearance

o        Special reqs for certain ratings

o        Physical standards

o        Performance standards

o        CO Reco

o        Advancement Exam


 

Distinguished Grads

  • LTGEN Cooper (1950) – Silver star for Korean War wounds; coined "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers."
  • VADM Calvert (1943) – nine sub war patrols; first to surface through North Pole; youngest Sup
  • VADM Miller (1942) – created nuclear war plans; commanded 2nd, 6th fleets
  • LTGen Krulak (1934) - helped create ramped bow landing craft; led despite wounds at Choiseul; led forces in Vietnam
  • RADM Marryott (1957) - Cuban Missile Crisis quarantine and Mercury space ops staff; redefined War College; Sup