The

United States Coast Guard The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is the maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's eight uniformed services. The service is a maritime, military, m ...

's ratings are general occupations that consist of specific skills and abilities. Each

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has its own specialty badge, which is typically worn on the left sleeve of their service dress uniform by enlisted personnel in that particular field. On operational dress uniforms, they wear generic rate designators that exclude the rating symbol.

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do not have ratings. U.S. Coast Guard ratings are the equivalent of the

system used by the

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, known as Navy Enlistment Classification (NEC) codes. The

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and

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use Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) codes and the

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use Air Force Specialty Codes (AFSC) that service the same function as U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy ratings. Ratings should not be confused with " rates", which describe the Navy's and Coast Guard's enlisted pay-grades. Enlisted Navy and Coast Guardsmen 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.U.S. Coast Guard Enlisted Rank Insignia
/ref> Although rates E-7 above are abbreviated similar to E-4 to E-6, the combined rating is listed before rate when completely spelled out. For instance, Master Chief Electronics Technician is abbreviated as ETCM. More examples are listed in the table below.

Aviation group

Administrative and scientific group

Deck & weapons group

Engineering & hull group

Reserve specific group

Command group

Obsolete ratings (1983-Present)

References

* ''This article incorporates text in the

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from the United States Coast Guard.''
U.S. Coast Guard Uniform Regulations COMDTINST M1020.6I
dated May 2016

External links

USCG Ratings

USCG and USCG Reserve, "Born Ready"
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