Engineering aid (abbreviated as EA) is a

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occupational rating. Engineering aids plan, supervise and perform tasks required in construction

surveying Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is ...

, construction

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, planning and estimating and quality control; prepare progress reports, time records, construction schedules and material and labor estimates; establish/operate a basic quality control system for testing soils, concrete and bituminous materials; prepare, edit and reproduce construction drawings; make control surveys, performing such tasks as running and closing traverses, surveying for excavations and obtaining and converting field notes into topographic maps; maintain individual combat readiness and perform tasks required in combat and disaster preparedness or recovery operations. The engineering aid's rating insignia shows a Philadelphia Rod, and alludes to the rating's original job, which was conducting surveys. At the

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level, the engineering aid rating merges with the

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and

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ratings. At this level, they are referred to as a senior chief constructionman (abbreviated CUCS). At the

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level, they merge with all other construction ratings as a master chief seabee (abbreviated as CBCM).

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