gineering duties only, officers of the Naval Flying Corps restricted by law to aeronautic duties only, officers of the Naval Coast Defense Reserve not designated by the Bureau of Navigation as qualified for the Fleet Naval Reserve, officers of the Naval Auxiliary Reserve, and officers of the Naval Reserve Flying Corps shall have all necessary authority for the exercise of command within their particular departments or services for the due performance of their respective duties, but shall not exercise military command outside of their respective departments or services: Provided, That nothing herein shall be taken to restrict the right of officers of the line assigned to engineering duties only, in accordance with the provisions of the act of August 29, 1916, to succession to command on shore within the meaning of said act: Provided further, That the commanding officer of a squadron, division, flotilla, or higher naval authority, may, when he deems desirable and where not inconsistent with law, specifically authorize any line officer to exercise command on board the ship to which he is attached without regard to the above restrictions, and may specifically direct a senior line officer, to whom the restrictions of this paragraph apply, to exercise the function of senior officer present in the absence of a line officer not so restricted: And provided further, That, for the purpose of determining who shall exercise command over a combined force, composed of vessels commanded by officers of the National Naval Volunteers, and of vessels commanded by officers of the regular Navy, acting in conjunetion or over a combined force on shore composed of military units commanded by officers of said Volunteers and officers of the regular Navy or Marine Corps, acting in conjunction, all officers of said Volunteers of or above the rank of lieutenant-commander or major will be regarded as junior to lieutenant-commanders and majors of the regular Navy and Marine Corps, respectively. (Act of Aug. 29, 1916.) Staff officers. Rank and titles of staff offcers. Medical and dental officers. Officers of the Chaplains. 1004. The officers of the staff are as follows: Medical officers, dental officers, pay officers, chaplains, professors of mathematics, naval constructors, civil engineers. 1005. (1) Officers of the staff on the active list have rank and title as follows: (a) Medical directors have the rank of rear admiral or captain and the title "medical director"; medical inspectors have the rank of commander and the title "medical inspector"; surgeons the rank of lieutenant commander and the title "surgeon"; passed assistant surgeons the ranks of lieutenant commander and lieutenant and the title "passed assistant surgeon"; assistant surgeons the rank of lieutenant (junior grade) and the title "assistant surgeon." Dental surgeons have the rank of lieutenant commander, lieutenant, or lieutenant (junior grade). Professors of mathematics. Naval constructors. (b) Pay directors have the rank of rear admiral or captain, and the title "pay director"; pay inspectors the rank of commander and the title "pay inspector"; paymasters the rank of lieutenant commander or lieutenant and the title "paymaster"; passed assistant paymasters the rank of lieutenant or lieutenant (junior grade) and the title "passed assistant paymaster"; assistant paymasters the rank of lieutenant (junior grade) or ensign and the title "assistant paymaster." (c) Chaplains have the rank of captain, commander, lieutenant commander, lieutenant, or lieutenant (junior grade). All officers of this corps have the title "chaplain." (d) Of the professors of mathematics, the senior three have the rank of captain; the next four that of commander; and the remaining five that of lieutenant commander or lieutenant. All officers of this corps have the title "professor of mathematics." (e) Naval constructors have the rank of rear admiral, captain, commander, lieutenant-commander or lieutenant. All of the above officers have the title "naval constructor." Assistant naval constructors have the rank of lieutenant or lieutenant (junior grade) and the title "assistant naval constructor." mander, lieutenant commander, lieutenant, or lieutenant (junior grade); and civil engineers shall be advanced in rank to the two grades of lieutenant commander and lieutenant on the same date and with the line officers with whom they take precedence, in the same manner as officers of the other staff corps of the Navy. Of the assistant civil engineers, the senior six shall have the rank of lieutenant (junior grade), and the remaining six that of ensign. All civil engineers have the title "civil engineer," and all assistant civil engineers the title "assistant civil engineer." (2) Staff officers on the retired list have the titles appropriate to the corps from which retired, as set forth in the other paragraphs of this article. neers. cers, chlefs 1006. (1) When the office of chief of bureau is filled by an officer Rank and tibelow the rank of rear admiral, said officer shall, while holding said tles of line offoffice, have the rank and, except as otherwise provided for by law or bureaus. of regulation, title of rear admiral. Titles of other reaus. (2) The chiefs of the Bureaus of Medicine and Surgery, Supplies and Accounts, Steam Engineering, and Construction and Repair, while chiefs of bu holding these offices, shall have, respectively, the title of Surgeon General, Paymaster General, Engineer in Chief, and Chief Constructor. (Sec. 1471, R. S.; Op. Att. Gen., March 4, 1904.) A staff officer serving as Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks retains his title in the corps to which he belongs. (3) Correspondence from a chief of bureau shall show the name of his office. Judge Advo (4) The Judge Advocate General shall be an officer of the Navy or Marine Corps, and shall have, while holding said office, the rank and cate General. title of captain in the Navy or colonel in the Marine Corps, as the case may be. Line titles, by whom not to be (5) Line titles shall not be used, either officially or semiofficially, by officers not of the line of the Navy. Where appropriate, however, used. as upon visiting cards and otherwise, in semiofficial and personal use, the words "with the rank of may be employed if desired. (6) An officer holding an acting appointment shall affix the title of Acting ap 1007. (1) Officers of the staff shall, under the commanding officer, have all necessary authority within their particular departments for the due performance of their respective duties, and they shall be obeyed accordingly by their subordinates. (2) They shall not, by virtue of rank and precedence, have any additional right to quarters, nor shall they have authority to exercise command, except in their own corps, and except as provided in Art. R 1043; nor shall they take precedence of their commanding officer; nor shall they take precedence of the aid or executive of the commanding officer while executing the orders of such commanding officer on board of the vessel or at the station to which he is attached; nor shall they be exempted from obeying the lawful commands of officers of the line who may be charged by proper authority with the details of military duty incident to the naval service. Authority staff officers. How officers 1008. Officers in verbal official communications shall be addressed solely by their titles as given in their commissions or as they appear in are addressed. the Navy Register; those below the rank of commander in the line, and all officers of the staff, may be addressed by their title, or as Mr. or Dr., as the case may be. 1009. (1) All line officers of the same rank take precedence with each other according to their respective dates of commission in such rank. All staff officers of the same rank take precedence with each other according to their respective dates of commission in such rank. All line and staff officers of the same rank, originally commissioned as officers of the Navy since March 4, 1913, take precedence with each other according to their respective dates of commission in such rank. Precedence of officers. of C. N. R. 10. as officers of the Navy on or before March 4, 1913, take precedence Officers of the Navy and the (2) All processions on shore where officers appear in an official capacity and where formation is necessary, shall be regarded as military formations. (Sec. 1489, R. S.) 1010. (1) The relative rank between officers of the Navy, whether Army and Ma- on the active or retired list, and officers of the Army, and of the Marine Corps, shall be as follows, lineal rank only being considered: rine Corps. C. N. R. 7. (a) Admiral shall rank with general. Vice admiral with lieutenant general. (d) Commodore with brigadier general. Commander with lieutenant colonel. Lieutenant with captain. Lieutenant (junior grade) with first lieutenant. Ensign with second lieutenant. (Sec. 1466, R. S.) (2) In fixing the relative rank of officers of the Army, officers of the Navy, and officers of the Marine Corps, of the same grade and date of appointment and commission, the time which each may have actually served as a commissioned officer of the United States, whether continuously or at different periods, shall be taken into account. (Sec. 1219, R. S.) (3) Officers in the same grade in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps have relative rank and precedence among themselves according to the dates, respectively, of their commissions, the senior in commission ranking the junior. (Op. Att. Gen., Oct. 7, 1905.) (4) Graduates of the Naval Academy who, upon graduation, are assigned to the Marine Corps and appointed second lieutenants therein, take rank with their classmates who are appointed ensigns in the Navy, in accordance with their final standing upon graduation. This applies only while holding the same relative rank and date of commission. 1011. The officers of the Marine Corps shall be, in relation to rank, Marine Corps on the same footing as officers of similar grades in the Army. (Sec. 1603, R. S.) 1012. (1) The relative rank between officers of the Navy and Marine Corps, whether on the active or on the retired list, and officers of the Coast Guard, shall be as follows: Officers of the and Army. Officers of the Coast Guard. (a) Captain commandant with captain. (b) Senior captain and engineer-in-chief with commander. (c) Captain and captain of engineers with lieutenant commander. d) First lieutenant and first lieutenant of engineers with lieutenant. Second lieutenant and second lieutenant of engineers with lieutenant (junior grade). (f) Third lieutenant and third lieutenant of engineers with ensign. Whenever the personnel of the Coast Guard, or any part thereof, is operating with the personnel of the Navy in accordance with law, precedence between commissioned officers of corresponding grades in the two services shall be determined by the date of commissions in those grades. (2) The Coast Guard constitutes a part of the military forces of the United States operating under the Treasury Department in time of of the Navy in time of war, or when the President shall so direct. (3) Whenever in time of war the Coast Guard operates as part of the Navy, the personnel of that service shall be subject to the laws prescribed for the government of the Navy. C. N. R. 10. Warrant ofi cers. 1013. (1) Boatswains, gunners, machinists, carpenters, pay clerks, acting pay clerks, sailmakers, pharmacists, marine gunners, and quar- C. N. R. 9. termaster clerks are warrant officers. They take precedence of each other on the active list of the Navy or Marine Corps according to the date of their warrants, and in case the warrants of two or more of them are of the same date, then according to the order in which their names are borne upon the Official Navy Register as kept in the Navy Department. They take precedence next after midshipmen and ahead of all mates. (2) After six years from date of warrant, boatswains, gunners, machinists, carpenters, sailmakers, and pharmacists, and pay clerks upon completion of a total service of six years as pay clerk, acting pay clerk, and paymaster's clerk, if duly qualified, shall be commissioned chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief machinists, chief carpenters, chief sailmakers, chief pharmacists, and chief pay clerks, respectively, to rank with but after ensigns, and shall be designated commissioned warrant officers. On the active list of the Navy, these commissioned warrant officers take precedence after ensigns, and of each other according to the dates of their commissions, and in case the commissions of two or more of them are of the same date, then according to the order in which their names are borne upon the Official Navy Register as kept in the Navy Department. Their commissions give no additional right to quarters on board ship or to command. Commissioned warrant officers. (3) Chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief machinists, boatswains, How classed. gunners, and machinists are classed as line officers of the Navy; chief carpenters, chief pay clerks, chief sailmakers, chief pharmacists, carpenters, pay clerks, sailmakers, and pharmacists, as staff officers. So far as succession to command or succession to duties aboard ship outside the engineer department are concerned, chief machinists and machinists are restricted to the performance of engineering duty only. Rank of, and (4) Such commissioned warrant officers as are or may be retired with the rank of lieutenant (junior grade) take precedence next after officers precedence. having the rank of lieutenant (junior grade). Such boatswains, gunners, carpenters, pay clerks, and sailmakers as are retired with the rank of the next higher grade shall take precedence with other officers of the Navy next after ensigns. All commissioned warrant officers and warrant officers when retired take precedence of each other as when on the active list; and in case the seniority of two or more of the same rank is of the same date, then according to the order in which their names are borne upon the Official Navy Register as kept in the Navy Department. (5) Commissioned warrant officers and warrant officers, who are retired without advancement in rank shall take precedence as when on the active list. 1014. (1) Mates are rated, by authority of the Secretary of the Navy, Mates. from seamen and ordinary seamen who have enlisted in the naval service for not less than two years. (Sec. 1408, R. S.) Mates have no relative rank, but they shall take precedence of all petty officers, noncommissioned officers of the Marine Corps, and enlisted men, and in their own grade according to the dates of their appointment. of cers and petty 1015. Commissioned warrant officers, warrant officers, mates, and Anthority petty officers shall have, under their superiors, all necessary authority subordinate onfor the due performance of their duties, and they shall be obeyed oficers. accordingly. Volunteers shall rank relatively with but after officers of corresponding rank or grade in the regular Navy and Coast Guard. Officers of the Naval Reserve Force shall rank relatively with officers of corresponding rank or grade in the National Naval Volunteers; and, when in the same grade, officers of the Naval Reserve Force and National Naval Volunteers shall have relative rank among themselves and with each each other according to their dates of precedence as hereinafter set forth, the officer with an earlier date of precedence ranking the officer with a later date, except that officers having confirmed appointments or commissions in any grade shall take precedence over officers having provisional assignments in such grade. (b) Officers of the Naval Reserve Force shall take precedence in each grade according to the dates of their commissions in such grade, except that officers of the Fleet Naval Reserve shall, when serving in said reserve in the same grade as that in which they last served in the regular Navy, take precedence as from the dates of the commissions formerly held by them in the regular Navy, and, when serving in said reserve in the grade of ensign after having last served in the regular Navy as midshipmen, as from the dates of the commissions as ensigns of the classes with which they would have become due for promotion to that grade; officers of the Naval Reserve Force not holding commissions in the grades in which serving but who have been assigned provisional rank in such grades, shall take precedence, as among themselves, according to the dates of such assignments. (c) Officers of the National Naval Volunteers shall take precedence in each grade according to the dates of the commissions in the Naval Militia under which they were enrolled in said Volunteers; and, in grades in which they held no commissions in the Naval Militia at the time of enrollment in said Volunteers, according to the dates of their commissions in such grades in said Volunteers. (d) When in any case the date of precedence, as hereinbefore set forth, for determining relative rank as between officers of the Naval Reserve Force or National Naval Volunteers, or both, is the same, they shall take precedence according to the length of their actual naval service as commissioned officers of the United States, whether continuous or broken, the officer having longer service ranking the officer having less service; and, in case the amount of service, as aforesaid, is the same, according to the order in which their names are borne upon the official Navy Register, as kept in the Navy Department. (e) The foregoing provisions, as adaptable to the Marine Corps, shall apply to officers of the Marine Corps Reserve and National Naval Volunteers (Marine Corps Branch). |