All you Sailors, can you help identify this patch?

[RETOKSQUID]

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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Has it really been that long? Seems like she just graduated Boot Camp.

 

[Glock 'em down]

Has it really been that long? Seems like she just graduated Boot Camp.

Yup. She started her 2nd enlistment almost one year ago. I think it was June of last year. She says she's gonna make a career of it.

 

[AKmoose]

This was my dad's, he actually passed the test for 1st class but I came along and screwed it up. BT designation no longer exists.

 

[mavs]

Yup. She started her 2nd enlistment almost one year ago. I think it was June of last year. She says she's gonna make a career of it.

Tell her congratulations and tell her how much we appreciate her service to this country and its citizens.

 

[Glock 'em down]

Tell her congratulations and tell her how much we appreciate her service to this country and its citizens.

Will do and thanks!

 

[bushmaster06]

You can see my dad's on his sleeve.

 

[2busy]

This was mine

 

[Chief Sapulpa]

This was my dad's, he actually passed the test for 1st class but I came along and screwed it up. BT designation no longer exists.
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I had one of those for 4 years on the USS Littlerock CLG-4.

 

[TerryMiller]

All I can say is that I'm glad I went Army. Approaching an officer's desk and announcing my rank and name would take forever in the Navy.

All I had to say was "Specialist" Miller. But then, in most commands that I was in, we seldom ever had to go before an officer.

 

[Decoligny]

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 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 figure 8 knot was used pre-1948 to indicate a recruit in training, holding the temporary rank (PO2) shown below the knot.
The trainee (apprentice) had not yet earned the right to wear the patch for the job they were in training to do.