All you Sailors, can you help identify this patch?

[Glock 'em down]

All I know is that if you look in the webster's dictionary under squid, it says it's the lowest form of MARINE life. Sorry, I could not let this opportunity pass.lol

And a marine is just a sailor who can't swim.

 

[thor447]

Thanks everyone!

 

[HMCS(FMF)Ret.]

I believe that's gonna be a Petty Officer 2nd Class (E-5/PO2. My niece held that rank just before her first enlistment was up year or so ago. She's now a PO first class (Boatswain) which gives her a little more rank.

Here she is during her first enlistment as a PO3.

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Now that’s a real Sailor right there! Huge respect for her.

 

[Glock 'em down]

Now that’s a real Sailor right there! Huge respect for her.

Yeah, I'm very proud of her. She decided to join simply because her older sister and brother stayed here in this one horse town and got caught up in drugs and booze and she wanted more out of her life. I can't brag on her enough. She is stationed in San Diego aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.

 

[Catt57]

I picked up some of my grandfather's Navy items after he recently passed away. I know that this is a Petty Officer Second Class patch, but I'm having difficulty identifying the symbol on the patch underneath the eagle. Can anyone tell me which what this rating symbol means? None of my research is pulling up anything, so I can only assume it has long since been discontinued. I've searched from modern symbols to a list of rating symbols I found discontinued in 1962 with no success. This would have come from the early 50's.

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Any help you can provide would be appreciated.

"The rating insignia is a figure-eight knot."

Apprentice Petty Officer First Class Rating Badge

Patch, Military; U.S. Navy apprentice petty officer first class rating badge. The white fabric patch is in the shape of a pentagon, with the base at the top and vertex …

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[Catt57]

I picked up some of my grandfather's Navy items after he recently passed away. I know that this is a Petty Officer Second Class patch, but I'm having difficulty identifying the symbol on the patch underneath the eagle. Can anyone tell me which what this rating symbol means? None of my research is pulling up anything, so I can only assume it has long since been discontinued. I've searched from modern symbols to a list of rating symbols I found discontinued in 1962 with no success. This would have come from the early 50's.

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Any help you can provide would be appreciated.

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Reviewing John Stacey's Rating Badges for Apprentice Petty Officers

Introduction I was reviewing my Apprentice Petty Officers badges, and after reviewing Part Four of the Second Edition of John Stacey’s book, and after which have questions on his documentation. He seems to identify five patterns, but does not name them as such, does not date his samples as he doe...

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[2busy]

Another tid bit of information. When you made third class petty officer you would get your " Crow " tacked on. Petty officers would punch you in the arm where your new badge was.

 

[Seadog]

All I know is that if you look in the webster's dictionary under squid, it says it's the lowest form of MARINE life. Sorry, I could not let this opportunity pass.lol

Actually, the lowest form of Sea life would be a pollywog. Seeing as you don’t know that I can tell you’ve never been a deep sea sailing. You dirty landlubber

 

[Seadog]

And a marine is just a sailor who can't swim.

Some of us just called them cargo

 

[Seadog]

"The rating insignia is a figure-eight knot."

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Apprentice Petty Officer First Class Rating Badge

Patch, Military; U.S. Navy apprentice petty officer first class rating badge. The white fabric patch is in the shape of a pentagon, with the base at the top and vertex …

intrepid.emuseum.com

I was going to say that it was a figure 8 knot, but you mentioned it first. Haven’t seen anybody else say it yet