Badges

[plc67]

Is the Navy to badges what the Army is to ribbons? When I'm in SAN and go to PizzaNova for lunch every swabbie I see has some sort of badge. Is this typical or is San Diego a badge intensive community?
The only badges I recognize are aviation,parachutst,SEAL,submariner and EOD.

 

[TheBubba]

I think you might be talking about warfare pins. Most sailors wear some type of pin the delineates their warfare community: Air warfare, surface, submarine, SEAL, EOD, etc.

That, or you could be talking about rating badges (the symbol above the chevrons). To put in Marine-speak, rating badges show the sailors MOS. Each specialty has a different symbol.

Check out this website: http://navyrotc.berkeley.edu/resources/gouge/Ratings.pdf

 

[HeyJoe]

Is the Navy to badges what the Army is to ribbons? When I'm in SAN and go to PizzaNova for lunch every swabbie I see has some sort of badge. Is this typical or is San Diego a badge intensive community?
The only badges I recognize are aviation,parachutst,SEAL,submariner and EOD.

To my mind, the Marines are the most austere when it comes to badges, warfare designators, pins, etc. and Navy is second to them (you missed SWO, SWCC and AWS "wings". Regardless, the Air Force has a "badge" for about everything under the sun and the Army has doodads and patches on about every square inch of their uniforms so both Navy and Marine uniforms look relatively sparse in comparison.

 

[Brett327]

Is the Navy to badges what the Army is to ribbons? When I'm in SAN and go to PizzaNova for lunch every swabbie I see has some sort of badge. Is this typical or is San Diego a badge intensive community?
The only badges I recognize are aviation,parachutst,SEAL,submariner and EOD.

Swabbie? What is this, 1942?

Brett

 

[RockyMtnNFO]

Badges? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING BADGES!!

 

[Catmando]

Badges? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING BADGES!!

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

 

[Flying Low]

Not all the pins are warfare. Aircrew wings and such are not warfare which is why guys have to wear their EAWS above their aircrew wings. And since this is brought up who else here feels slighted that they can not wear double warfare qualls from the same group? So if you have pilot wings you can not wear EAWS or NFO wings. Same for SWO and ESWS.

 

[Brett327]

who else here feels slighted that they can not wear double warfare qualls from the same group?

Not me. Why would you want to wear pilot and NFO wings? It is interesting that Aircrew wings are in a whole other category (thus permitting dual wear). I wonder what the reasoning was behind that since they are more like the rest of the Aviation group than EAWS.

Brett

 

[Cordespc]

Interesting...I seem to recall seeing a ton of prior "E" SWOs/LDO/CWOs with ESWS on their blue pajamas. One in particular was a BMC turned ENS who was a Div-O in deck dept. The photo of him in the division spaces had him wearing the ESWS above the SWO pin.

 

[Flying Low]

Not me. Why would you want to wear pilot and NFO wings? It is interesting that Aircrew wings are in a whole other category (thus permitting dual wear). I wonder what the reasoning was behind that since they are more like the rest of the Aviation group than EAWS.

Brett

I don't. I want to wear my EAWS with my pilot wings.

 

[Flying Low]

Interesting...I seem to recall seeing a ton of prior "E" SWOs/LDO/CWOs with ESWS on their blue pajamas. One in particular was a BMC turned ENS who was a Div-O in deck dept. The photo of him in the division spaces had him wearing the ESWS above the SWO pin.

A lot of people don't know the instruction. It reads that you can wear 2 pins. However later on it states that you cannot wear 2 in the same category. I tried to get this changed a few years ago. It made it up to the Force Master Chief level, but got shot down. Another thing people do wrong is wear green flight jackets in Khakis. Technically you can only wear the green jacket with wash Khakis.

 

[phrogpilot73]

Technically you can only wear the green jacket with wash Khakis.

That's weird... I only say that because the USMC (a.k.a. the Uniform Nazi service) allows you to wear the green jacket (both summer and winter weight), and the leather jacket with ANY service uniform... I would have thought you guys would be more relaxed about it. Then again, there are no "wash" Charlies...

 

[Flash]

That's weird... I only say that because the USMC (a.k.a. the Uniform Nazi service) allows you to wear the green jacket (both summer and winter weight), and the leather jacket with ANY service uniform... I would have thought you guys would be more relaxed about it. Then again, there are no "wash" Charlies...

The Navy is also the only service that makes you wear at least one row of ribbons when you are wearing your regular khakis, all of the other services allow no ribbons to be worn on the equivalant uniforms. No leather jackets with the SDB shirt and tie too, though that is regularly ignored.

Each service has its own own funny rules.......

 

[HeyJoe]

The Navy is also the only service that makes you wear at least one row of ribbons when you are wearing your regular khakis, all of the other services allow no ribbons to be worn on the equivalant uniforms. No leather jackets with the SDB shirt and tie too, though that is regularly ignored.

Each service has its own own funny rules.......

As well as certain units/organizations...TOPGUN (NSAWC N7 officially) instructors wear only their wings (no ribbons, no watches and no rings) when on stage

 

[insanebikerboy]

As well as certain units/organizations...TOPGUN (NSAWC N7 officially) instructors wear only their wings (no ribbons, no watches and no rings) when on stage

Actually, I've seen that quite a bit. It's a public speaking tip more than a squadron thing. It's to get rid of those guys that'll look at the stack of ribbons on a speaker's chest and judge him by that, which in turn they'll make a predetermined decision about the speech and either listen closely or check out and just stare at the paint on the wall.