List of United States Coast Guard ratings

United States Coast Guard ratings are general occupations that consist of specific skills and abilities. Each rating has its own specialty badge, which is typically worn on the left sleeve of their service dress uniform by all enlisted personnel in that particular field. On Operational Dress Uniforms, they wear generic rate designators that exclude the rating symbol. Commissioned Officers do not have ratings.

Ratings should not be confused with "rates", which describe the Navy's and Coast Guard's enlisted pay-grades. Enlisted Navy and Coast Guardsmen are referred to by their rating and rate. For example, if someone's rate is Petty Officer 2nd Class and his rating is Boatswain's Mate; when combined, Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class (BM2) defines both. More examples are listed in the table below.

Aviation group

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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" | Aviation Survival Technician
 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d; text-align: center" |AST
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" colspan="4" valign="top" |The Aviation Survival Technician inspects, services, maintains, troubleshoots and repairs aircraft and aircrew survival equipment and rescue devices. Additionally, ASTs perform the duties of a rescue swimmer and provide aircrew survival training to all aviators.
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" | Avionics Electrical Technician
 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d; text-align: center" |AET
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" colspan="4" valign="top" |Inspects, services, maintains, troubleshoots and repairs aircraft power, communications, navigation, auto flight and sensor systems. AETs perform minimum performance checks, system alignments, avionics corrosion control and record keeping. Additionally, AETs hold an aircrew position in specific Coast Guard aircraft.
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" colspan="4" valign="top" |Inspects, services, maintains, troubleshoots and repairs aircraft power, communications, navigation, auto flight and sensor systems. AETs perform minimum performance checks, system alignments, avionics corrosion control and record keeping. Additionally, AETs hold an aircrew position in specific Coast Guard aircraft.
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Administrative and scientific group
Reference: http://www.uscg.mil/band/careers.asp
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d; background-color: #FFFFFF" rowspan="2" |USCG Marine Science Technician rating badge.png
 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" | Marine Science Technician
 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d; text-align: center" |MST
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" colspan="4" valign="top" |MSTs conduct marine-safety activities such as investigating pollution incidents, monitoring pollution cleanups, conducting foreign-vessel boardings to enforce pollution and navigation safety laws, conducting harbor patrols for port safety and security, inspecting waterfront facilities and supervising the loading of explosives on vessels. Most are assigned to shore-based field units such as sectors. They may be assigned to the National Strike Force for oil and hazardous-material response. MSTs are also the Coast Guard’s safety and environmental health experts ashore.
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" | Musician
 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d; text-align: center" |MU
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" colspan="4" valign="top" |The musician rating in the Coast Guard is restricted to members of the Coast Guard Band which is located at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT. The United States Coast Guard Band recruits only the most highly skilled musicians, and the audition process is extremely competitive. The Director makes the final decision to award the position to the winner(s) who then enlist in the United States Coast Guard for a period of four years at the rank of Musician First Class (E-6).
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" colspan="4" valign="top" |The musician rating in the Coast Guard is restricted to members of the Coast Guard Band which is located at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT. The United States Coast Guard Band recruits only the most highly skilled musicians, and the audition process is extremely competitive. The Director makes the final decision to award the position to the winner(s) who then enlist in the United States Coast Guard for a period of four years at the rank of Musician First Class (E-6).
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" | Public Affairs Specialist
 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d; text-align: center" |PA
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" colspan="4" valign="top" |Reports and edits news; publishes information about service members and activities through newspapers, magazines, radio and television; and shoots and develops film and photographs
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" | Storekeeper
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" colspan="4" valign="top" |Orders, receives, stores, inventories and issues clothing, food, mechanical equipment and other items; and serves as a payroll clerk.
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" | Food Service Specialist
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" colspan="4" valign="top" |Cooks and bakes; prepares menus; keeps cost accounts; assists in ordering provisions; and inspects food.
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" | Yeoman
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" colspan="4" valign="top" | Prepares and routes correspondence and reports; and maintains personnel records and publications.
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" | Yeoman
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Engineering & hull group
Note: Electrician's Mates don't work on avionics. It's all shipboard maintenance and residential electrical work.  Note: Electronics Technicians are normally part of the Operations Department, not Engineering. They also do the jobs that were once done by the Fire Control Technicians, including maintaining and operating the fire control radars, and firing the major weapons systems on the boat including the 76 MM cannon and the CWIS anti-ship missile defense system.
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" | Electrician's Mate
 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d; text-align: center" |EM
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" colspan="4" valign="top" |Tests, maintains and repairs electrical equipment including navigation, identification, detection, reconnaissance, special purpose equipment and conducts electrical training for all MK's throughout the fleet; operates warfare equipment.
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" colspan="4" valign="top" |Tests, maintains and repairs electrical equipment including navigation, identification, detection, reconnaissance, special purpose equipment and conducts electrical training for all MK's throughout the fleet; operates warfare equipment.
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" | Electronics Technician
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" colspan="4" valign="top" |Maintains all electronic equipment used for communications, detection ranging, recognition and countermeasures, worldwide navigational systems, computers and sonars. ET's Also maintain towers and antennas.
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" colspan="4" valign="top" |Maintains all electronic equipment used for communications, detection ranging, recognition and countermeasures, worldwide navigational systems, computers and sonars. ET's Also maintain towers and antennas.
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" | Machinery Technician
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" colspan="4" valign="top" |Operates, maintains and repairs ship's propulsion, auxiliary equipment and outside equipment such as steering, engineer, refrigeration/air conditioning and steam equipment
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" | Information Systems Technician
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" colspan="4" valign="top" |Operates communication equipment; transmits, receives and processes all forms of military record and voice communications. Installs and maintains telecommunications equipment ranging from pole lines and underground cables to computer-based data communications and processing systems, telephone and data switching systems and networks, and public address, security and remote control systems
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" | Diver
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" colspan="4" valign="top" |Diver is a new rate created by the Coast Guard in 2014. They sweep ports and waterways during coastal security missions; conduct salvage and recovery operations; inspect Coast Guard cutter hulls; survey coral reefs and environmental sensitive areas; repair, maintain and place of aids to navigation; conduct polar operations as well as conduct joint operations with United States and international military divers.
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 * style="border: 1px solid #25185d;" colspan="4" valign="top" |Diver is a new rate created by the Coast Guard in 2014. They sweep ports and waterways during coastal security missions; conduct salvage and recovery operations; inspect Coast Guard cutter hulls; survey coral reefs and environmental sensitive areas; repair, maintain and place of aids to navigation; conduct polar operations as well as conduct joint operations with United States and international military divers.
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