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The current Diving Badge is issued by both the U.S. Army and United States Navy , and is provided in several different degrees of issuance. Members of both the Coast Guard and Marine Corps are eligible to receive the Navy version of the Diving Badge. The United States Air Force does not issue any sort of a Diving Badge, however personnel are permitted to wear the Diving Badge of other services if proper training and qualification was obtained. NAVY/MARINE CORPS/COAST GUARD The naval diving badges are issued in several degrees to members of the Navy and Coast Guard . In the Marine Corps the Scuba Diver Badge is the only authorized diving badge. The first degree of the naval diving badges is the Scuba Badge, issued for qualification as a Navy Scuba Diver. The Scuba Badge was previously issued in two degrees, one being for officer divers and the other for enlisted personnel. The Scuba Officer Badge was phased out in the 1990s and the Scuba Badge is now issued as a silver pin for all qualified Navy scuba divers. The remaining Navy Diving Badges are awarded for deep sea dive qualifications and are issued in the degrees of Second Class, First Class, and Master Diver. An Officer Diving Badge also exists for those Master Divers who are commissioned officers, and the Diving Medical Officer Badge is presented to medical personnel who have qualified as both divers and medical response personnel to diving medical emergencies. Like the Enlisted Surface, Submarine, and Aviation specialty marks, enlisted personnel who are dive qualified place a term after their rating. In Boatswain's Mate Second Class Jones is a qualifed diver, he is referred to in writing as BM2(DV) Jones. ARMY The Army Diving badge is very similar to the Navy design, however there is not an officer version of the Diving badge nor is there a Medical Diving badge. The Army also maintains the Salvage Diver Badge which is a standard Diver badge annotated with an engraved “S”. On July 2005, the Army Scuba Diver badge was renamed the Special Operations Diver badge. Along with the renaming and redesign of the badge was the creation of an additional skill level known as the Special Operations Diving Supervisor badge. |
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