Master Chief Petty Officer First Class
A division officer and division chief are meant to be hand in hand divisional leaders.
Master chief petty officer first class. The civilian equivalent of this military rank is roughly gs 5 under the federal government s general schedule payscale. In spoken references chief petty officers may be addressed as chief but are never addressed as sir. To be eligible for advancement to. The training and mentoring of junior officers is a primary duty of chief petty officers.
A petty officer first class is a noncommissioned officer with a military paygrade of e 6. The rate insignia for a petty officer first class is a perched eagle above three chevrons. However most of this effort for the first few months is the chief teaching his or her division officer how to interact. On more formal uniforms dress white and dress blue uniform the symbol for the petty officer s rating will be placed between the eagle and the chevrons.
At that time nearly all sailors who had carried the rate of petty officer first class since 1885 were advanced to chief petty officer with the exception of schoolmasters ship s writers and carpenter s mates. The rates senior chief petty officer and master chief petty officer were established on 1 june 1958. Coast guard the new e 8 pay grade was titled senior chief petty officer and the new e 9 pay grade as master chief petty officer with the first selectees promoting to their respective grades in 1959 and 1960. A petty officer first class is often chosen to serve as the leading petty officer lpo of a division and the leadership experience demonstrated through this position is often used to choose sailors for promotion to chief petty officer.