Current (since 1975)
| Insignia | Description |
|---|---|
| Basic device | on entering a sub-branch Able Rate, AB class 2, under training |
| Basic device with star above | on qualifying professionally for Able Rate, AB class 1, operationally trained to carry out basic tasks and expected to train for next level as Leading Hand. |
| Basic device with star above and star below | on qualifying professionally for Leading Rate, able to carry complex tasks and lead others and expected to train for next level as Petty Officer. |
| Basic device with crown above | on qualifying professionally for Petty Officer, able to command, instruct others and carry out more complex tasks. |
Chief Petty Officers attain no additional professional qualification and wear the basic device with crown above, however above the left breast pocket, able to show advanced leadership, training abilities and perform the most complex tasks.
Read more about this topic: Royal Navy Ratings Rank Insignia
Famous quotes containing the word current:
““I” is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)