E-1, E-2, or E-3? How did that happen?

[lemonelephant]

At PIR, you will notice that some Sailors have stripes and others do not. No stripes is E-1; 2 stripes is E-2; and 3 stripes is E-3.

Those without stripes would be addressed as Seaman Recruit (SR), Fireman Recruit (FR), Airman Recruit (AR), or Constructionman Recruit (CR).

White/Navy blue (black) stripes are Seaman Apprentice (SA) or Seaman (SN) (may later be HA or HN for someone in the HM rating after A School). Red stripes are Fireman Apprentice (FA) or Fireman (FN). Green stripes are Airman Apprentice (AA) or Airman (AN). Blue stripes are Constructionman Apprentice (CA) or Constructionman (CN).

Here is a link that relates to this, E-1 to E-6 Rate Insignia (clickable link).  Your Sailor won't get the Rating Badge until after completing A School.  I changed the "black stripes" to "Navy blue (black) stripes" after reading the information in the link.  Remember that the Dress Blues are so blue they are black, so the same thing goes for the SA and SN stripes.

These will result in attaining E-3 prior to BC: satisfactorily completed 48 semester hours or 72 quarter hours of college credits or 2,160 classroom hours at an accredited vocational/technical school, awarded Eagle Scout or the Girl Scout Gold Award, successfully completed 3 years of any Junior ROTC Program, completed the requirements for Quartermaster in the Sea Scouts, successfully completed 3 years and graduated from an accredited high school-level military academy.

These will result in E2 prior to BC: satisfactorily completed 24 semester hours or 36 quarter hours of college credits or 1,080 classroom hours at an accredited vocational/technical school, received the Civil Air Patrol Billy Mitchell Award, successfully completed 2 years of any Junior ROTC Program, designated an E-5 in the Young Marines, successfully completed 2 years and graduated from an accredited high school-level military academy.

Those who completed the Navy Sea Cadet Corps may be E-2 or E-3 and those who, while in DEP, referred qualified applicants that subsequently join the Navy may be E-2 or E-3.

Some may have it written in their contract that they will be E-2 or E-3 based on their rating. Some may be advanced due to prior service, such as in the reserves.

At BC: A recruit can be advanced to E-2 by successfully completing the DEP GUIDE PQS, passing a written test at Recruit Training Command (RTC), and passing PT-Baseline (the first PFA) with a SAT-MED. Completion of the DEP GUIDE PQS will be confirmed and documented by the Classifier at MEPS. The RDC can meritoriously promote up to 10% of the division one paygrade; this sometimes happens for the RPOC and/or AROC if s/he kept the position for the entire time at the RTC, but could happen for someone who holds one of the other RPO positions as well.

[lemonelephant]

For those needing to send phone cards, go to http://callsforrecruits.org/ and send an email to get some free and then click to donate money so that they can keep doing it.  Ronny and Anna do a great job of getting the numbers back to you very quickly.

[MyKidIsInNavy]

Is there anywhere I can print all of this?  I am a brand new Mom trying to figure this all out and I only know what his contract he signed when he joined DEP, so I would LOVE to understand the progression and all the abbreviations and terms...help anyone?  Please and thank you

[lemonelephant]

These may help.  Each is a clickable link.

Boot Camp Vocabulary 

Boot-Camp Terminology

United States Navy enlisted rates (rate=rank)

List of United States Navy ratings (rating=job)

[MyKidIsInNavy]

Thanks...the bottom 2 links do not work..:(  but I printed the top 2 out

[lemonelephant]

Try these

List of United States Navy enlisted rates

List of United States Navy ratings

[Dina0106]

Does this mean my SR won't be an E2 after BC? We kept on urging his recruiter to let him take the PQS but he kept on saying: "Oh you can do it next time." Next time ended up being the last DEP meeting and he was told that he would take it at Boot Camp.

[lemonelephant]

I put above what I found at http://www.navycs.com/navy-advanced-paygrade.html and other sites, but Sailors have indicated that if a recruit passes the written test AND passes the first PFA, then s/he will be advanced to E-2 even if the recruit does not have everything in the DEP manual signed off by the recruiter.  So yes, your SR will have a chance to make E-2 if he is able to pass both at the RTC.