List of United States Coast Guard ratings

United States Coast Guard ratings are general occupations that consist of specific skills and abilities. Each rating has its own specialty badge, which is typically worn on the left sleeve of their uniforms by all enlisted personnel in that particular field. On Operational Dress Uniforms, they wear generic rate designators that exclude the rating symbol. Commissioned Officers do not have ratings.

Ratings should not be confused with "rates", which describe the Coast Guard's enlisted pay-grades.

Enlisted Coastguardsmen are referred to by their rating and rate. For example, if someone's rate is Petty Officer 2nd Class and his rating is Boatswain's Mate; when combined, Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class (BM2) defines both.Fact|date=June 2008

Rating structure

The pay grades E-4 (Petty Officer Third Class) through E-9 (Master Chief Petty Officer) fall within the rating structure.

Aviation Group

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Deck & Weapons Group

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Wrong insignia for IT rate. Should be telephone on top and globe underneath.

Reserve Specific Group

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style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" | Investigator
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style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" colspan="4" valign="top" | Provide support to Coast Guard law-enforcement and intelligence missions. Conduct both criminal and personal background checks and investigations, collect and analyze intelligence information and provide personal protection services to high-ranking Coast Guard officials and other VIPs.

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These two ratings are only used in the USCG Reserve.

Obsolete Ratings

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References

:"This article incorporates text in the public domain from the United States Coast Guard."

ee also

*United States Coast Guard officer rank insignia
*United States Coast Guard enlisted rate insignia
*Badges of the United States Coast Guard

External links

* [http://www.uscg.mil/top/graphics/enlisted.asp#n02e USCG Ratings]
* [http://www.uscg.mil/History/regulations/USCGRating_Warrant_Marks.pdf History of USCG Ratings marks]