List of "lost" ratings?

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[geejaydee]

Just a little revenge for the time on the Eagle when I offered to help with something, and the BMC (John Kennedy) told me "Sparks, just go back to your squirrel cage, and stay out of the way!"



...gjd

[MastersMate]

This must be the appropriate place to throw some of these out here.

Coxswain -  a rating from the Revenue Cutter service and the very early USGC. The rating was replaced by the Boatswains Mate rating about 1920

[vftb]

There's that arrow again.  What did that signify 

[BuoyJumper]

Dana,

I just wanted to say, "Thanks for all of your work compiling and publishing the "USCG Ratings 1915 - 2005" as part of our service's history."  

[MastersMate]

BuoyJumper,
Glad that it is getting some use, and LTGunner found it. I sent it along to the Historians Office before I hit the delete button on this machine  by mistake.

vftb
The "ARROW" direction maybe ???  the early Radarman was 3 sparks with an arrow diagonally to the upper right RADAR , RAdio Direction And Ranging . Have seen older RCS Coxswain rating badges where the arrow points to the front, wheteher a right arm or left arm badge.

A copy of the 1916 USCG uniform regs lists and illustrates the first ratings in the new CG.



Until its demise, the Quartermaster was an older rating than the Boatswains Mate, as far as the CG goes.

[vftb]

I was wondering if it had anything to do with the old right-arm, left-arm rating designators.  Thanks MM 

[BuoyJumper]

I've got a question for our active duty shipmates:

Back when many of us were in there were designated E3s.  For example when vftb went to QM "A School" as an E2,
he graduated as an SNQM (Designated E3).  As I recall the ratings badge looked something like the first one on the
left in the graphic below.  Of course back in those days there was no BM "A School" so we had no SNBMs.

                    

So my question for our active duty shipmates ... Does the CG still use designated E3 badges or have these also faded
away into CG History?

[EX-CG-GM]

Of course back in those days there was no BM "A School" so we had no SNBMs.

Although there was no BM "A" school, it seems to me I have seen SN/BM's.   I think it was when the command "recohgnized" someone as an individual officially striking for a rating.  Or maybe it was when you had passed the service wide but not yet been advanced?

Anyone have any insight?

[BuoyJumper]

Ya know EX, I was saying to Hans that I thought I remembered there being SNBMs but he said, "no, because there was no BM "A School". 

Was an SNBM we're remembering someone who had been busted from BM3 or BM2?  I seem to recall we had a BM3 "Curly" Cameron on the Mesquite that got busted to SNBM.  Now I was a designated E3, SNAN1 having graduated AtoN School at Governor's Island but there was no left arm badge for that designated rating.

[EX-CG-GM]

I'm 90% sure there were SN/BM's that were not working their way down from BM-3.

Must be some old crusty BM on here that can help us out.  Hell, we must have a dozen BMC's milling around!

Go drag their ass outta the mess, provided you can break their grip on their coffee cups.... 

[rustybayonet]

There were SNBM's - as you said 'busted back' or if striking and you passed the advancement test you could be designated until making E4 thereby be assured working in the BM field.  Had a SNBM at Toledo when I was there- had not been busted.

[vftb]

I stand corrected 

[mike220]

So my question for our active duty shipmates ... Does the CG still use designated E3 badges or have these also faded
away into CG History?

Yes. At least as of 2005, when I was designated as an SNYN (that was a mistake).I've still got it somewhere.

[EX-CG-GM]

I stand corrected 

Oh heck, go ahead and sit down.  We can point out all your mistakes while you are seated just as easily as when you are standing!

 

[vftb]