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The United States Navy and United States Coast Guard occupational rating of gunner's mate (GM) is a designation given by the Bureau of Naval Personnel (BUPERS) to enlisted sailors who either satisfactorily complete initial Gunner's Mate "A" school training, or who "strike" for the rating by showing competence in the field of ordnance.
Rank and organizarion: Chief Gunner's Mate, U.S. Navy. Born: 22 December 1855, St. Albans, W. Va. Accredited to: West Virginia. G.O. No.: 43, 14 April 1921. (Medal presented by President Harding.) Citation: For extraordinary heroism on U.S.S. Missouri 13 April 1904. While at target practice off Pensacola, Fla., an accident occurred in the after ...
Armourer's mate: Junior petty officer Gunner's mate Boatswain's mate Caulker's mate Carpenter's mate Sailmaker's mate Quartermaster's mate Gunsmith: Seaman: Seaman specialists Quarter gunner: Carpenter's crew Able seaman: Seaman with more than three years experience Ordinary seaman: Seaman with at least one year experience Landsman
The United States Navy Armed Guard (USNAG) were U.S. Navy gun crews consisting of Gunner's Mates, Coxswains and Boatswains, Radiomen, Signalmen, an occasional Pharmacist's Mate serving at sea on merchant ships; toward the end of the war a few radar men joined the crews. [2]
The official Medal of Honor citation for Chief Gunner's Mate Thomas Eadie is as follows: For display of extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession above and beyond the call of duty on 18 December 1927, during the diving operations in connection with the sinking of the U.S.S. S-4 with all on board, as a result of a collision off Provincetown, Mass.
On June 1, 1917, he became a chief gunner's mate on the cruiser Marblehead, which made him among the first African Americans with the rank of chief petty officer in the U.S. Navy. Turpin served at that rank until he was transferred to the Fleet Reserve in March 1919. In October 1925, Turpin retired at the rank of chief gunner's mate. [1]
Grave at Arlington National Cemetery. Schmidt served in the U.S. Navy from 1913 until 1919. [2] He rose to the rank of Chief Gunner's Mate.. On October 9, 1918, while a crew member on USS Chestnut Hill (ID-2526), he assisted in the rescue of crewmen from the burning submarine chaser USS SC-219 following a gasoline explosion. [3]
He was stationed aboard the USS Bennington (PG-4) as a chief gunner's mate. On July 21, 1905, one of the USS Bennington's boilers exploded while it was in San Diego, California. For his actions he received the Medal of Honor on January 5, 1906. [2] [3] Clausey was warranted as a gunner on February 3, 1908.