US Naval Law Enforcement (What You Should Know)

CW5 Jack Cardwell During My Time, You Could Only become a MAA after Attaining the Rank of E5. There wasn't that Many Full Time MAAs but there Were Supplemented by Part Time MAAs. Any Senior NCO could be Assigned the Duties of MAA. That is How I Ended Up Wearing a Badge. Another Naval Tradition is that a Flag Officer is Entitled to His Own Personal Cook and His Own Personal MAA. My Primary Duty was Tech Control Chief for SPAWARS 621 but My Collateral Duty was MAA to Chief of Staff COMSPAWARSYSCOM. A Little History of the MAA Rate: The Master at Arms' rating was one of the original United States Navy ratings when it was first established in 1794. The rating was then disestablished in 1921 and the responsibilities of the rating were delved out as collateral duties to other ratings. The Master-at-Arms rating is one of the original eight Chief Petty Officer ratings.
Established in 1942, the Specialists (S) Shore Patrol and Security worked shore patrol teams and ensured basic ship and shore station security. Its name was changed in 1948 to Shore Patrolman, and it took on some of the official functions of the current Master-at Arms rating, only to be re-disestablished in 1953.
Finally reestablished on August 1, 1973, the MA rating would only draw its members from Sailors cross-rating from other ratings at the Second Class Petty Officer level and above. That is until 2003, when Navy Recruiting Command was assigned a new contract mission for entry level applicants.

CW5 Jack Cardwell I was NDW (Naval District Washington, DC) Badge #9.

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel DC... Nooo