Navy Ranks
US Navy Rank Insignia

Navy Ranks
US Navy Rank Insignia

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Navy Rank Insignia and Navy Pay Grades

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US Navy Ranks and Navy Rank Insignia

Navy Ranks are more than just who salutes whom. Navy rank is a badge of leadership. Responsibility for personnel, equipment, and mission grows with each increase in rank. Do not confuse rank with pay grades, such as E-1, W-2 and O-5. Pay grades are administrative classifications used primarily to standardize compensation across the military services. The "E" in E-1 stands for "enlisted" while the "1" indicates the pay grade for that position. The other pay categories are "W" for warrant officers and "O" for commissioned officers. Some enlisted pay grades have two ranks. Rank images and info from Defenselink.mil Find a historic overview of Military Ranks and Military Rank Insignia here: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Nov1999/n11221999_9911224.html

US Navy Enlisted Ranks, Enlisted Rank Insignia
Service members in pay grades E-1 through E-3 are usually either in some kind of training status or on their initial assignment. The training includes the basic training phase where recruits are immersed in military culture and values and are taught the core skills required by their service component. Basic training is followed by a specialized or advanced training phase that provides recruits with a specific area of expertise or concentration. In the Navy this area is known as a Rate. A specialty mark in the center of a rating badge indicates the wearer's particular rating. Gold stripes indicate 12 or more years of good conduct. 1. Master chief petty officer of the Navy and fleet and force master chief petty officers. 2. Command master chief petty officers wear silver stars. 3. Master chief petty officers wear silver stars and silver specialty rating marks
Pay Grade: E2 Seaman Apprentice (SA)	Pay Grade: E3 Seaman (SN)	Pay Grade: E4 Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
Leadership responsibility significantly increases in the mid-level enlisted ranks. This responsibility is given formal recognition by use of the term petty officer. The Navy NCO, petty officer, is achieved at the rank of petty officer third class
Pay Grade: E5 Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)	Pay Grade: E6 Petty Officer First Class (PO1)	Pay Grade: E7 Chief Petty Officer (CPO)
E-8s and E-9s have 15 to 30 years on the job, and are commanders' senior advisers for enlisted matters. A third E-9 element is the senior enlisted person of the US Navy. The Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy is the spokespersons of the enlisted force at the highest levels of their services
Pay Grade: E8 Senior Chief Petty Officer (SCPO)	Pay Grade: E9 Master Chief Petty Officer (MCPO)	Pay Grade: E9 Fleet/Command Master Chief Petty Officer
Pay Grade: E9 Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy

US Navy Warrant Officer Ranks
Officer ranks in the United States Navy consist of commissioned officers and warrant officers. Warrant officers hold warrants from their service secretary and are specialists and experts in certain military technologies or capabilities. The lowest ranking warrant officers serve under a warrant, but they receive commissions from the president upon promotion to chief warrant officer 2. These commissioned warrant officers are direct representatives of the president of the United States. They derive their authority from the same source as commissioned officers but remain specialists, in contrast to commissioned officers, who are generalists. W5 was established in the Navy in 2002. Naval officers wear distinctively different rank devices depending upon the uniform they're wearing. The three basic uniforms and rank devices used are: khakis, collar insignia pins; whites, stripes on shoulder boards; and blues, stripes sewn on the lower coat sleeves.
Pay Grade: W1 Warrant Officer 1 (W-1) No longer in Use	Pay Grade: W2 Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CWO2)		Pay Grade: W3 Chief Warrant Officer 3 (CWO3)
Pay Grade: W4 Chief Warrant Officer 4 (CWO4)		Pay Grade: W5 Chief Warrant Officer 5 (CW05)

US Navy Officer Ranks
The commissioned ranks are the highest in the military. These officers hold presidential commissions and are confirmed at their ranks by the Senate. US Navy officers are called junior grade officers in the pay grades of O-1 to O-3, mid-grade officers in pay grades O-4 to O-6 and flag officers in pay grades O-7 and higher.
Pay Grade: O1 Ensign (ENS)	Pay Grade: O2 Lieutenant Junior Grade (LTJG)		Pay Grade: O3 Lieutenant (LT)
Pay Grade: O4 Lieutenant Commander (LCDR)	Pay Grade: O5 Commander (CDR)		Pay Grade: O6 Captain (CAPT)
Pay Grade: O7 Rear Admiral Lower Half RADM (LH)	Pay Grade: O8 Rear Admiral Upper Half RADM (UH)		Pay Grade: O9 Vice Admiral (VADM)
Pay Grade: O10 Admiral (ADM) Chief of Naval Operations		Pay Grade: O11 Fleet Admiral (Wartime only)
The rank of Fleet Admiral has been reserved for war time use only. The last Fleet Admirals were in World War II. Fleet Admirals during that war were Chester W. Nimitz, William D. Leahy, Ernest J. King, and William F. Halsey.