MR for CPO Chapter 7 covers Watch Quarter and Station bill, drill and formation, inspections, CPO uniforms, The history of the CPO, awards, and the general mess advisory board.
Chapter 7
-Military Requirements-• Watch, Quarter and Station Bill (WQS) is the commanding officer’s summary of personnel duty assignments and stations. This bill will display your duties for each emergency and watch condition.
• The WQS bill shows name, rate, billet number, bunk, and locker number of each person in the division. It also indicates each person’s battle station.
• The executive officer (XO) is responsible for maintaining a master WQS Bill for the ship.
• Division officers are responsible for updating and changing the WQS bill for the personnel in the division. These changes must be approved by the executive officer(XO).
• Drill and formation:
- intervals are normally one arm’s length measured between individuals from shoulder to shoulder.
- guide: the individual on whom a formation or element regulates its alignment. The guide is usually positioned to the right.
- distance between ranks is 40 inches
- Pace is the length of a full step (30 inches for men and 24 inches for women).
- Step The distance from heel to heel between the feet of a marching person. The half step and back step are 15 inches. The right and left steps 12 inches.
- Attention is the basic military position.
- At ease you can relax and shift about, but you must keep right foot in place. Don’t Talk
- Rest Same as at ease but you may talk at rest. This is the only command where you may talk
- About face is a two count movement.*Note: these are only a few of the basic drill commands, you may want to review pages 7-3 through 7-6 for more information.
• Inspections:
- Divisions should fall into formation of two of four ranks
- The tallest person should be on the left side of the formation.- The inspection party normally approaches from the right
• SECNAVINST 5060.22 is the Drill and Ceremonies Manual and Interior Guard Manual• Divisional Duty Officers are responsible for inspecting divisional spaces and making eight o’clock reports.
• The Officer of the Deck in Port (OOD) reports directly to the commanding officer for the safety and general duties of the command.
• The General Mess Advisory Board id chaired by the food services officer.
• The Mess Audit Board is responsible for auditing the mess treasurer’s account in the CPO MESS and the wardroom mess.
The History of the CPO • According to Naval records, the first mention of the chief petty officer was on a ship muster roll in 1775.• Many of our uniform styles can be traced to the British Royal Navy
• In 1865 a Navy Regulation reestablished the term Chief Petty Officer
• The term Chief petty officer was fist used for the ship’s master–at-arms
• Review pages 7-14 to 7-17 on CPO uniforms.
• You may wear conservative style sun glasses when in uniform, but never in formation
1 ½’’ above the eyebrow.
• The male CPO rating badge measures 3 ¼’’ across and females are 2 ½’’ across.
• Review page 7-19 for CPO rating badges.
• Hash marks of stripes are 7 inches long and 3/8 inches wide for male. Female hash marks are 5 ¼ inches long and ¼ inch wide.
• Hash marks are positioned ¼ apart when wearing more than one.
• CPOs with less than 12 years have scarlet service stripes (hash marks)
• Dinner dress uniforms are normally worn at official functions. They are equivalent to a civilian black tie function.
• You normally wear full dress uniforms on ceremonial occasions. You wear medals with full dress uniforms (no ribbons).
• Gold hash marks (service stripes) are worn for 12 or more years of service if you meet the eligibility requirements.
• There are 7 broad categories of awards:
1. Military decorations: given for specific personal act of gallantry or meritorious service, i.e. Purple Heart, Navy Cross, Medal of Honor
2. Unit awards: presented to an operating unit only to members of that unit that participated in the cited action, i.e., Navy “E”.
3. Nonmilitary decorations: decorations are awarded for various actions by an individual, i.e, Gold and Life Saving Medals, Presidential Medal of Freedom
4. Campaign and Service awards: given to personnel who have participated in designated wars, campaigns or fulfilled creditable, specific service requirements. i.e., POW medal, Good Conduct, Antarctica Service Medal.
5. Foreign decorations and non-U.S. service awards: the awards that may be worn are listed in the U.S. Navy Uniform Regs. NAVPERS 156650.
6. Marksmanship Awards: awards for pistol or rifle on a qualifying course.
7. Awards of Military societies and other organizations: are awarded from military societies and other organizations. i.e., Regular Army and Navy Union, Naval Reserve Association and the Moreell Medal• Ribbons are worn ¼ inch above the left breast pocket. Each row may have no more than 3 ribbons. Persons possessing 4 or more ribbons can wear a minimum of 3 of the most senior ribbons.
• Ribbons are worn with service dress uniforms.
• You may wear two warfare specialty pins at the same time.
• You may not wear a breast insignia or a badge awarded from another services, unless authorized by the Secretary of the Navy.
• Chapter 10 of Uniform regulations covers the proper wearing and positioning of badges and insignias
• You may wear up to 5 medals in one row.
• Refer to pages 7-24 and 7-25 for the wearing of ribbons and medals.
• Gold bullion lace tarnishes rapidly and should only be cleaned by professionals. If you clean it yourself, use commercial nontoxic preparations and liquid cleaners
•Review chapter 7 MR for CPO
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