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Enlisted Ratings
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What follows is a sampling (not necessarily comprehensive) of the enlisted
ratings (occupational specialties) which would be found aboard most ships,
stations, and starbases in ASR Star Fleet.
Enlisted personnel, as the rank structure acknowledges, have rates
(grades) and ratings (job titles). The use of the following system is
optional (subject to the approval of the fleet administration and
commanding officer of the unit), but proves the opportunity to flesh
out the ship's crew. A couple specific notes about usage follow.
First, in ASR, for simplicity sake, ratings are earned when the person
makes the rate of Petty Officer Third Class (E-4). In the real world,
some ratings may be earned earlier, however we avoid that in ASR, save
for yeomans. Ratings are denoted as follows. A petty officer third class
who is a legalman whould be LN3. A chief petty officer who is a
master-at-arms would be a MAC.
For example:
Grade Rate Rating Abbreviation
E-4 PO3 Master-at-arms Third Class MA3
E-5 PO2 Master-at-arms Second Class MA2
E-6 PO1 Master-at-arms First Class MA1
E-7 CPO Chief Petty Officer MAC
E-8 SCPO Senior Chief Petty Officer MACS
E-9 MCPO Master Chief Petty Officer MACM
Also, please note that enlisted personnel who later become warrant
officers almost always serve in same area in which they obtained their
enlisted rating. The same is true for mustang officers (those who
came up through the enlisted ranks) who do not otherwise attend the
Academy or equivalent training. Such officers have a rank ceiling
of O-4 (LCDR), are not elgible for command, and are called limited duty
officers.
Like all such optional material, it is understood that many ships may
choose to adopt all, part, or some of the system, or not use it all.
That is fine, and local variation is expected. However, for those who
do wish to use it, this should provide a guide to the often ignored
world of enlisted personnel.
Listing of Ratings in use in ASR
SHIP SERVICES
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LN - Legalman
PN - Personnelman
PC - Postal Clerk
YN - Yeoman
RP - Religious Program Specialist
EP - Educational Program Specialist
MS - Mess Specialist
JO - Journalist
MU - Musician
SD - Steward
SK - Storekeeper
SR - Shuttle Storekeeper
SH - Ship's Serviceman
OPERATIONS
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CN - Communicationsman
CT - Cryptographic Technician
CTA (Administrative)
CTI (Interpretive)
CTM (Maintenance)
CTO (Communications)
CTR (Collection)
CTT (Technical)
IS - Intelligence Specialist
OS - Operations Specialist
NAVIGATION
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QM - Quartermaster
COMBAT SYSTEMS
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GM - Gunner's Mate
GMP (Phasers)
GMT (Torpedoes)
ET - Electronics Technician
FT - Fire Control Technician
EW - Electronics Warfare Technician
ENGINEERING
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WT - Warp Drive Technician
DT - Dimensional Warp Drive Technician
IT - Impulse Drive Technicial
SG - Shield/Gravitic and Tractor Beam Technician
CG - Communications/Gravitic Systems Technician
TT - Transporter Technician
RT - Replicator Technician
EM - Electrician's Mate
IC - Interior Communications Electrician
MM - Machinist's Mate
HT - Hull Maintenance Technician
IM - Instrumentman
DC - Damage Controlman
SECURITY
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MA - Master-at-arms
CI - Criminal Investigator
FI - Forensic Invesitgator
SCIENCE
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ST - Sensor Technician
DP - Data Processing Technician
DS - Data Systems Technician
LS - Laboratory Technician, Science
MEDICAL
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HM - Hospital Corpsman
DT - Dental Technician
NC - Naval Counselor
LM - Laboratory Technical, Medical
FLIGHT OPERATIONS
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BM - Boatswain's Mate
SQ - Shuttle Crew Survival Equipmentman
SE - Shuttlecraft Electrician's Mate
SL - Shuttlecraft Electronics Technician
SA - Shuttlecraft Machinist's Mate
SM - Shuttlecraft Structural Mechanic
SO - Shuttlecraft Ordnanceman
SS - Shuttlecraft Support Equipment Technician
SC - Shuttle Traffic Controller
SW - Shuttle Systems Warfare Operator
CONSTRUCTION
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SV - Surveyor
BU - Builder
CE - Construction Electrician
CM - Construction Mechanic
EA - Engineering Aide
EO - Equipment Operator
MW - Materials Worker
UT - Utilitiesman
Description of Enlisted Ratings
SHIP SERVICES
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This group is responsible for handling many administrative and clerical
matters aboard ship. These ratings perform many functions important to
all personnel on the ship.
LN - Legalman - Offer counseling on Federation Law and on the Star Fleet
Uniform Code of Military Justice.
PN - Personnelman - Test, classify, counsel, and recommend assignment of
enlisted personnel. Maintain officer and enlisted records. Assist
executive officer in crew evaluation and training.
PC - Postal Clerk - Recieve packages sent to the ship and deliver them to
the crew.
YN - Yeoman - Perform general clerical duties including records keeping,
preparing reports, and handling correspondence.
RP - Religious Program Specialist - Assist ship's clergyman. Make
accomodations for the religious services of any crewman of officer
serving aboard the ship.
EP - Educational Program Specialist - Assists in provision of enlisted
personnel with information pertaining to correspondence and
shipboard educational opportunities, both for degree work and
personal interest. Conducts classes for supernumaries,
including minors.
MS - Mess Specialists - Serve as cooks, butchers, and bakers for the
ship's mess. (Note: With replicators in common usage, there are
usually only a few MS's aboard ship for formal occasions.)
JO - Journalist - News reporting and related duties.
MU - Musician - Serve as members of bands and orchestras for ceremonial
events.
SD - Steward - Serve as cooks or bakers for officer's mess. Supervise
servicing of officers' quarters and wardroom meals. (Note: As with
the MS rating, there are usually few SD's aboard ship.)
SK - Storekeeper - Perform clerical and maintenance duties in the supply
department related to procurement and stowage of supplies of all
kinds (exclusive of shuttlecraft related items).
SR - Shuttle Storekeeper - Procure, recieve, identify, check, stow,
preserve, and issue shuttlecraft equipment. Maintain required
records.
SH - Ship's Serviceman - Manage ship's store activities. (Barber,
laundry, store clerk)
OPERATIONS
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This department s responsible for collecting, evaluating, and
disseminating combat and operational information.
CN - Communicationsman - Operate communications equipment.
CT - Cryptographic Technician - Perform duties related to decoding encoded
transmissions, handling classified transmissions, and interpreting
transmissions in unknown language codes. This rating is subdivided
into second depending on what an individual's specific duties relate
to.
CTA (Administrative)
CTI (Interpretive)
CTM (Maintenance)
CTO (Communications)
CTR (Collection)
CTT (Technical)
IS - Intelligence Specialist - Recieve, maintain, and disseminate as
ordered materials from the Officer of Star Fleet Intelligence.
Transmit reports of ship's activities and intelligence information to
OSFI.
OS - Operations Specialist - Operate all sensor repeaters, tracking system
consoles and other quipment in the Combadt Information Center (CIC)
under the supervision of the CIC Watch Officer.
NAVIGATION
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The navigation department is responsible for the safe navigation and
piloting of the ship.
QM - Quartermaster - Perform ship-control, navigation and bridge watch
duties; corrent charts and maintain navigational aids; stand sensor
lookout watch; act as helmsman and lookout supervisor.
(Note: This is a *Naval* Quartermaster and has no relation to the
Army or Marine Supply Corps which is known as the Quartermaster
Corps.)
COMBAT SYSTEMS
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This department is in charge of the defense of the ship from external
threats. It is responsible for all general maintenance and handling of
the weapons sys tems, fire control computers, targeting systems,
electronic countermeasures, and other combat systems aboard ship.
GM - Gunner's Mate - Operate, perform upkeep, major repairs, and overhaul
of remote weapons emplacement control centers; lead gun crews during
combat operations.
GMP (Phasers)
GMT (Torpedoes)
ET - Electronics Technician - Maintain, repair, and overhaul electronic
equipment including computer systems.
FT - Fire Control Technician - Perform upkeep, major repair, and overhaul
of central fire-control systems and their components, including
fire-control sensors.
EW - Electronics Warfare Technician - Operate, maintain, repair, and
overhaul electronic countermeasure systems.
ENGINEERING
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This department is responsible for the operation and maintenance of all
propulsion and auxiliary machinery, the control of damage, the maintenance
of shuttlecraft systems, the repair of the hull and its fixtures, and all
repairs beyond the capacity of other departments.
WT - Warp Drive Technician - Operate, maintain, and repair ship's warp
core, and nacelles.
DT - Dimensional Warp Drive Technician - Operate, maintain, and repair
ship's dimensional warp nodes.
IT - Impulse Drive Technicial - Operate, maintain, and repair, fusion
reactors and impulse drive systems.
SG - Shield/Gravitic and Tractor Beam Technician - Maintain and repair
gravitic systems, specifically those related to shield grids and
tractor beam emitters.
CG - Communications/Gravitic Systems Technician - Maintain and repair
gravitic systems, specifically those related to communication and
long range sensors.
TT - Transporter Technician - Operate, maintain, and repair transporter
systems.
RT - Replicator Technician - Maintain and repair material replication
system network including individual units and central raw material
distribution.
EM - Electrician's Mate - Maintain and repair ship's power distribution
and lighting systems.
IC - Interior Communications Electrician - Maintain and repair internal
communication and sensor systems.
MM - Machinist's Mate - Install, operate and maintain, mechanical ship's
systems including propulsion, power generators, and life support
equipment.
HT - Hull Maintenance Technician - Maintain and repair ship's internal and
external hulls.
IM - Instrumentman - Adjust, repair, and recondition percision equipment.
DC - Damage Controlman - Serve as technical assistants, instructors, and
inspectors for fire prevention, fire fighting, damage control, and
radiation, biological, and chemical contamination. (Note: Ship's
computers aren't fullproof and there is nothing more dangerous on a
starship than a fire that consumes precious oxygen and damages
critical equipment and circuits if undetected. Also, in combat when
fire supression systems go offline, these crewmen are all that stands
between life and death for the ship.)
SECURITY
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This department is responsible for the internal discipline of the crew.
Ship's security is generally a small group of enlisted persons, commanded
by the Chief Master-at-Arms (CMAA), except when a ship lacks a marine
contingent.
MA - Master-at-arms - Maintain internal discipline of the crew.
CI - Criminal Investigator - Conducts internal criminal investigations
as required by command staff or Judge Advocate Corps. Takes
depositions and advises legal corpsmen and legal officer where
applicable.
FI - Forensic Investigator - Conducts forensic investigations as required.
SCIENCE
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This department is responsible for the operation and maintenance of the
science terminals, labs, and scientific sensor arrays
ST - Sensor Technician - Operate, maintain, and repair external sensor
systems.
DP - Data Processing Technician - Receive, analyze, and report on data
received from labratory experiments or external sensors.
DS - Data Systems Technician - Operation, maintain, and repair computer
systems.
LS - Laboratory Technician, Science - Operation, maintain, and repair
research laboratory equipment.
MEDICAL
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This department is responsible for maintaining the health of the officers
and crew; the treatment and care of the sick and wounded; the sanitation
and hygiene of the ship and its company; the inspection of the ship, food,
and water insofar as the health of the crew may be affected; and for
training and directing personnel assigned to the medical department.
HM - Hospital Corpsman - Perform numerous types of medical and clerical
duties; may be technicians in specialized fields; may serve in small
ships treating all illnesses and injuries (i.e. ships without a
medical officer). (Note: Duties would include manning the
dispensary, acting as nurse's and doctor's aides, etc.)
DT - Dental Technician - Perform dental, clinical, and administrative
duties for dental officers.
NC - Naval Counselor - Perform clerical duties for ship's counselor; may
have training in psychology; may serve in small ships in the capacity
of counselor (i.e. ships without an officer assigned as counselor).
LM - Laboratory Technician, Medical - Operate, maintain, and repair
medical laboratoty equipment. (Duties include standard performing
standard medical testing such as disease screening, blood work, gene
sequencing, forensic analysis, etc.)
FLIGHT OPERATIONS
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The flight operations department is concerned with the function of the all
embarked craft. It is charged with shuttlecraft launching, landing, and
handling operations, with the service maintenance, and repair of shuttle
craft, and with the handling of shuttle fuel and ordinance.
BM - Boatswain's Mate - Perform various deck duties aboard ship;
supervise operation and maintenance of shuttlecraft; operate and
maintain cargo-handling equipment; supervise working and damage
control partied; act as members of gun crew.
SQ - Shuttle Crew Survival Equipmentman - Operate, maintain, and repair
shuttlecraft safety equipment, especially emergency transporters;
instruct in operation of equipment and in crash survival techniques.
SE - Shuttlecraft Electrician's Mate - Repair, maintain, and adjust
shuttlecraft electrical equipment and instruments.
SL - Shuttlecraft Electronics Technician - Maintain, repair, adjust, and
install shuttlecraft electronic equipment.
SA - Shuttlecraft Machinist's Mate - Maintain, service, adjust, and
replace shuttlecraft engines and accessories.
SM - Shuttlecraft Structural Mechanic - Maintain and repair shuttlecraft
spaceframe structures and life support systems.
SO - Shuttlecraft Ordnanceman - Operate, install, repair, and service all
shuttlecraft ordnance equipment.
SS - Shuttlecraft Support Equipment Technician - Operate, maintain, and
repair ship's systems and equipment associated with the operation and
maintenance of shuttlcraft.
SC - Shuttle Traffic Controller - Operate, maintain, and repair systems
associated with the safe launch, tracking, and recovery of
shuttlecraft.
SW - Shuttle Systems Warfare Operator - Operate, maintain, and repair
shuttlecraft electronic countermeasure systems.
CONSTRUCTION
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Construction ratings are usually only found on planets and space stations
or starbases, but they are included for completeness. These ratings are
responsible for duties associated with the building of new facilities.
SV - Surveyor - Make reconnaissance and preliminary and final location
surverys for facilities to be constructed.
BU - Builder - Construct, repair, and maintain structures.
CE - Construction Electrician - Install, maintain, operate, and repair
power distribution systems, lighting fixtures, and communications
systems.
CM - Construction Mechanic - Maintain and repair heavy construction
equipment.
EA - Engineering Aide - Assist engineering officers assigned to the
construction project; supervise other construction ratings.
EO - Equipment Operator - Operate, field-check, and service heavy
construction equipment.
MW - Materials Worker - Work with special materials involved in
construction and ensure their proper use.
UT - Utilitiesman - Install, operate, maintain, and repair power
generation and sanitation systems.