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Petty Officer Third Class
A Petty officer third class is a non-commissioned officer in some navies and coast guards. By country United States Petty officer third class is the fourth enlisted rank in the United States Navy, U.S. Navy and the United States Coast Guard, U.S. Coast Guard, above Seaman (rank), seaman and below petty officer second class, and is the lowest rank of non-commissioned officer, equivalent to a corporal in the U.S. United States Army, Army and United States Marine Corps, Marine Corps. Petty officer third class shares the same Uniformed services pay grades of the United States, pay grade as senior airman in the United States Air Force, Air Force, which no longer has an NCO rank corresponding with Uniformed services pay grades of the United States#Enlisted, E-4. Specialist (rank), Specialists in the United States Army, Army are not recognized as NCOs either, even though they are also in the E-4 pay grade. History Unlike seaman and lower ranks, a sailor's advancement to petty office ...
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Non-commissioned Officer
A non-commissioned officer (NCO) is an enlisted rank, enlisted leader, petty officer, or in some cases warrant officer, who does not hold a Commission (document), commission. Non-commissioned officers usually earn their position of authority by promotion through the enlisted ranks. In contrast, Officer (armed forces), commissioned officers usually enter directly from a military academy, officer training corps (OTC) or Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC), or officer candidate school (OCS) or officer training school (OTS), after receiving a post-secondary degree. The NCO corps usually includes many grades of enlisted, corporal and sergeant; in some countries, warrant officers also carry out the duties of NCOs. The naval equivalent includes some or all grades of petty officer. There are different classes of non-commissioned officers, including junior (lower ranked) non-commissioned officers (JNCO) and senior/staff (higher ranked) non-commissioned officers (SNCO). Functio ...
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United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the Air force, air service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is one of the six United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Tracing its origins to 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Signal Corps, the USAF was established by transfer of personnel from the Army Air Forces with the enactment of the National Security Act of 1947. It is the second youngest branch of the United States Armed Forces and the fourth in United States order of precedence, order of precedence. The United States Air Force articulates its core missions as air supremacy, intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance, global integrated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, airlift, rapid global mobility, Strategic bombing, global strike, and command and control. The United States Department of the Air Force, Department of the Air Force, which serves as the USAF's ...
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Military Ranks Of The United States Navy
A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. Militaries are typically authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with their members identifiable by a distinct military uniform. They may consist of one or more military branches such as an army, navy, air force, space force, marines, or coast guard. The main task of a military is usually defined as defence of their state and its interests against external armed threats. In broad usage, the terms "armed forces" and "military" are often synonymous, although in technical usage a distinction is sometimes made in which a country's armed forces may include other paramilitary forces such as armed police. Beyond warfare, the military may be employed in additional sanctioned and non-sanctioned functions within the state, including internal security threats, crowd control, promotion of political agendas, emergency services and reconstruction, ...
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List Of Comparative Military Ranks
This article is a list of various Sovereign state, nations' armed forces military rank, ranking designations. Comparisons are made between the different systems used by nations to categorize the hierarchy of an armed force compared to another. Several of these lists mention ''Ranks and insignia of NATO, NATO rank reference codes''. These are used for easy comparison among NATO countries. Links to comparison charts can be found below. References to modern military Albania *Military ranks of Albania Angola *Military ranks of Angola Argentina *Military ranks of Argentina Australia *Australian Defence Force ranks *Royal Australian Navy ranks and uniforms *Australian Army officer rank insignia; Australian Army enlisted rank insignia, Australian Army other ranks insignia *Ranks of the RAAF Austria *Ranks of the Austrian Bundesheer Armenia *Military ranks of Armenia Azerbaijan *Military ranks of Azerbaijan Bahrain *Military ranks of Bahrain Bangladesh *Ranks of Bangladesh Army ...
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Petty Officer
A petty officer (PO) is a non-commissioned officer in many navies. Often they may be superior to a seaman, and subordinate to more senior non-commissioned officers, such as chief petty officers. Petty officers are usually sailors that have served at least several years in their respective navies. Petty officers represent the junior and mid-grade non-commissioned officer ranks of many naval services, and are generally responsible for the day-to-day supervision of ranks junior to them. They may also serve as technical specialists within their rating (military occupation). Origin The modern petty officer dates back to the Age of Sail in the Royal Navy. Petty officers rank between naval officers (both commissioned and warrant) and most enlisted sailors. These were men with some claim to officer rank, sufficient to distinguish them from ordinary ratings, without raising them so high as the sea officers. Several were warrant officers, in the literal sense of being appoint ...
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Liberian National Coast Guard
The Liberian National Coast Guard is the naval force of Liberia, part of the Armed Forces of Liberia. Its main duties are law enforcement along Liberia's coast and in its maritime area, and aiding those in distress. History Liberia acquired a small number of naval ships during its early history. In 1892 the steel gunboat ''Gorronomah'', built in Ireland, became its first ship, and in 1894 it acquired the gunboat ''Rocktown'', built in the Netherlands. They were both out of service by 1900. In 1916 the auxiliary schooner ''President Howard'' was acquired from Germany and was the only ship in the Liberian Navy, but it was sunk in April 1918 by the German submarine . The Liberian National Coast Guard, was established in 1959.Accessed via GlobalSecurity.org Throughout the Tubman period the coastguard was little more than a few sometimes unserviceable patrol craft manned by ill-trained personnel, though its training improved in the 1980s to the point where it was considered the best ...
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Ethiopian Navy
The Ethiopian Navy (), known as the Imperial Ethiopian Navy until 1974, is the Navy, naval branch of the Ethiopian National Defense Force founded in 1955. It was disestablished in 1996 after the Eritrean War of Independence, independence of Eritrea in 1993, which left Ethiopia landlocked. However, the Ethiopian Navy was re-established in 2019 as a Brown-water navy, brown water navy and is based in Lake Tana in Bahir Dar, Amhara region. Imperial Ethiopian Navy (1955–1974) Founding of the navy Ethiopia regained a coastline and ports and army on the Red Sea in 1950 when the United Nations decided to federate Eritrea with Ethiopia. In 1955, the Imperial Ethiopian Navy was founded,Gray, Randal, ed., ''Conway′s All the World′s Fighting Ships 1947–1982, Part II: The Warsaw Pact and Non-Aligned Nations'', Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1983, , p. 304. and its first (and primary) base was established at Massawa in 1956. The navy took delivery of its first ship in 1957 ...
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Navy Enlisted Classification
The Navy Enlisted Classification (NEC) system supplements the rating designators for enlisted members of the United States Navy. A naval rating and NEC designator are similar to the Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) designators used in the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps and the Air Force Specialty Code (AFSC) used in the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Space Force. The U.S. Navy has several ratings or job specialties for its enlisted members. An enlisted member is known by the enlisted rating, for example a Machinist's Mate Machinist's Mate (or MM) is a List of United States Navy ratings, rating in the United States Navy's engineering community. It is non-capitalised as machinist's mate when discussing the generic rating rather than as a proper noun when discussing a ... (MM), or by the enlisted rate, for example Petty Officer First Class (PO1). Often Navy enlisted members are addressed by a combination of rating and rate; in this example, this Machinist's Mate Petty Offic ...
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Petty Officer First Class
Petty officer first class (PO1) is a rank found in some navies and maritime organizations. Canada Petty officer, 1st class, PO1, is a Naval non-commissioned member rank of the Canadian Forces. It is senior to the rank of petty officer 2nd-class and its equivalents, and junior to chief petty officer 2nd-class and its equivalents. Its Army and Air Force equivalent is warrant officer (WO). The French form of the rank is ''maître de 1re classe''. The rank insignia of the PO1 is a crown worn on both forearms of the Service Dress tunic, and on slip-ons on both shoulders of other uniforms. PO1s are generally initially addressed as "Petty Officer Bloggins" or "PO Bloggins", and thereafter as "PO", although in correspondence the full rank or abbreviation is used before the member's name. The full appellation "Petty Officer 1st-Class" or "PO1" in speech is generally used only when the "first-class" distinction be made, such as to distinguish between members with similar names bu ...
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Nonjudicial Punishment
In the United States Armed Forces, Non-judicial punishment (NJP) is a disciplinary measure that may be applied to individual military personnel, without a need for a court martial or similar proceedings. General In the United States Armed Forces, non-judicial punishment is a form of military justice authorized by Article 15 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Its rules are further elaborated on in various branch policy as well as the Manual for Courts-Martial. NJP permits commanders to administratively discipline troops without a court-martial. Punishment can range from reprimand to reduction in rank, correctional custody, loss of pay, extra duty or restrictions depending on rank of the imposing officer and receiving officer. The receipt of non-judicial punishment does not constitute a criminal conviction (it is equivalent to a civil action), but is often placed in the service record of the individual. The process for non-judicial punishment is governed by Part V of the Manu ...
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Aviation Structural Mechanic
Aviation structural mechanic (abbreviated as AM) is a United States Navy occupational Naval rating, rating. Duties Aviation Structural Mechanics maintain aircraft airframe and structural components including flight surfaces and controls, hydraulic and pneumatic control and actuating systems and mechanisms, landing gear systems, air conditioning, pressurization, visual improvement, oxygen and other utility systems, egress systems including seat and canopy ejection systems and components. They fabricate and repair metallic and nonmetallic materials; perform aircraft daily, special, hourly, and conditional inspections, supervise operation of airframe work centers; maintain aircraft metallic and non-metallic structures including fuselages, fixed and moveable flight surfaces, tail booms, doors, panels, decks, empennages, and seats (except ejection seats); flight controls and related mechanisms; hydraulic power storage and distribution systems including main (primary and secondary), a ...
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Air Force Specialty Code
The Air Force Specialty Code (AFSC) is an alphanumeric code used by the United States Air Force to identify a specific job. Officer (armed forces), Officer AFSCs consist of four characters and Enlisted rank, enlisted AFSCs consist of five characters. A letter prefix or suffix may be used with an AFSC when more specific identification of position requirements and individual qualifications is necessary. The AFSC is similar to the United States military occupation code, military occupational specialty codes (MOS Codes) used by the United States Army and the United States Marine Corps or enlisted List of United States Navy ratings, ratings and USN officer List of Naval Officer Designators, designators and Naval officer billet classifications (NOBCs) used by the United States Navy and enlisted List of United States Coast Guard ratings, ratings and USCG officer specialties used by the United States Coast Guard. The United States Space Force equivalent is known as the Space Force Specialt ...
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