US Navy

Mm2c is the old (WWI/II) rate designation for a Machinist's Mate Second Class. The modern equivalent is MM2. In both cases, the rank is a 2nd Class Petty Officer (E-5).

* HM is the navy term. You have to score so high on your test you take at meps, and that will bring up the jobs you can pick from.

There are two types of SONAR (Sound Navigation and Ranging) used...active and passive.

Passive SONAR is simply listening under water using hydrophones. With passive SONAR a vessel can determine the bearing (direction) of whatever is creating the noise right away. Using triangulation (multiple bearings at timed intervals) passive SONAR can now determine range, bearing, and speed. But this can be time consuming.

Pro - stealth

Con - time consuming

Active SONAR requires emitting a noise underwater that is on multiple frequencies. Not just a single loud 'ping' like in the movies. As the sound reaches an object underwater the noise bounces back to the vessel that emitted the sounds. Sounds travel at given speeds, and using a calculation you can almost immediately determine range along with bearing. A second quick active SONAR burst and you now have speed. But, now everyone listening knows you are there as well.

Pro - quick results

Con - exposes yourself

A navy commander would be piped aboard his ship. The ship's bell is only rung to announce the time.

As long as they're not within the same Chain of Command (e.g., one is the other's Commanding Officer or senior officer in the chain above), then yes - it's actually quite common for officers to marry each other, and the same for enlisteds (which is how my wife and I met).

It's also not uncommon for officers of one military branch to marry an officer in another branch. The biggest difficulty interservice or interbranch marriages pose for military couples is stationing; there is never any guarantee you'll be stationed together.

When searching for the answers to the M9 series pistol training NIKO course the answers are not going to be found online. All of the information provided in the training will have to be reviewed to know the answers.

Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (Damn the Torpedoes!) was the first Rear Admiral, Vice Admiral, and Admiral in the U.S. Navy. He was promoted to the rank of Admiral by President Lincoln on July 25, 1866.

Technically, there was none. Navy General Order 409 established the Chief Petty Officer rate (enlisted rank) for 9 of the then 12 Navy ratings (job titles) on 25 February 1893. All personnel who were P.O. First Class in those 9 rates were either automatically advanced to Chief, or were able to be promoted to Chief as of 1 April 1893, the day the order went into effect. Thus a large number of Navy personnel made Chief simultaneously, and there was no single Chief before any other.

There is, however, one Jacob Wasbie who served aboard the USS Alfred with John Paul Jones, whose official job title changed from Cook's Mate to Chief Cook on 1 June 1776, before the concept of petty officers was formalized. This is the first recorded use of the word "Chief" being used in a job title in the US Navy.

Check out the excellent article below by CWO-4 Lester B. Tucker, USN (Retired), which is where I got this information for a recent lookup assignment:

http://www.history.navy.mil/faq/faq46-1.htm

EN standands for Engineman. This is the rating for those that work on small engines and diesel engines. The 1 indicates a First Class Petty Officer, an E-6.

"A" schools are a sailor's basic technical training schools, which most sailors attend just after completing Basic Training (boot camp). Sailors who are designated for specific ratings will attend these schools prior to learn the basics of their particular job rating.

Impressment is forcing American sailors into joining the British Navy.

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meet the height and weight standards or get taped out with less than 18% body fat. run 3 miles in less than 27:59 do 44 crunches and 3 pullups. but you cant just do the minimum in the marine corps. they'll put you on a special program for fatties if indeed you are a fatty

A chief petty officer is a US Navy or Coast Guard non-commissioned officer of the grade E-7, E-8, or E-9.

E-7: Chief Petty Officer

E-8: Senior Chief Petty Officer

E-9: Master Chief Petty Officer

E-9 also can be a Command Master Chief (CMC) of the Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) which is assigned to the highest ranking enlisted person in the United States Navy.

No. You're dumb.

To support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America, to protect the United States from all enemies, both foreign and domestic, and to uphold the orders given to them by the Commander in Chief, the President of the United States of America.

"From the Sea" and later "Forward from the Sea"

You can contact the Navy Department and request a copy of your service record, which will list all of your awards and medals. There are numerous places on line that will provide medals and ribbons and mount them in shadow boxes.

The SEALs are a part of the US Navy. They use the same ranks as the Navy, enlisted personnel would be petty officers and chief petty officers. The Officer ranks would go from Ensign to Captain.

The original USS Constellation, though not the first ship launched by the Navy (that honor goes the USS United States, launched 4 months prior to the Constellation) was the first Navy vessel to be Commissioned. She was built at Harris Creek Shipyard at Fell's Point in Baltimore.

There is conflicting history concerning the original Constellation and the one now in Baltimore Harbor. It was concluded based on evidence found during her extensive overhaul in the '90's that she was in fact a completely different ship model than the original. However, Naval Records do not show any new appropriations for a new ship, only a notation that the original ship be dismantled and an entirely new one by rebuilt as a new model ship using the original ship materials. If true, it is a new ship, but made from the original ship.

I still remember watching the current Constellation being brought up the harbor from the shipyard to its current spot in Baltimore Harbor after her restoration. It was one of those things in life you don't forget.

There are no other codes. Discharge was honorable. *I meant "does".

The US Navy's first female Engineman, FR Valerie C. LaZear, of Missouri. She said, "I wanted to be a Sailor like my daddy, who is a Chief Machinists Mate in the Reserves I've always liked to work on engines."

During WWII Rommell is quoted as saying that if he had 3 battalions of Maori soldiers he would rule the world. He admired the intellect, fighting spirit, strength and ability of the 28th Maori Battalion.