Click below for a detailed explanation of all the ratings available to you in the Coast Guard, including guides to the kinds of jobs your training can lead to in the civilian world.
As a reservist, you might be assigned to any of our 17 ratings (or jobs). Your rating will be determined by our needs and your ability. Plus, reservists have one unique rating -- Investigator (provide support to Coast Guard law enforcement and intelligence missions).
AMTs are responsible for maintaining and crewing CG aircraft. The technical training and experience they obtain replicates that of various occupations in commercial aviation.
The duties of ASTs include saving lives, providing emergency medical support, and maintaining the survival equipment their shipmates depend upon in emergencies.
AETs troubleshoot and repair complex avionics and electrical systems on assigned aircraft.
Are you looking for a real hands-on seagoing experience? Boatswains mate may be the experience for which you are looking.
Learn about the various aspects of the restaurant or catering industry while serving your country.
DCs are the Coast Guard's maintenance and emergency repair specialists.
Electricity is the lifeline of any system, and EMs are the ones the Coast Guard counts on most to keep it all connected and running.
ETs are in charge of maintaining virtually all of the Coast Guard's electronics systems from navigation systems to command, control and communication (C3) systems.
For those interested in the technical inner-workings of small arms, weapon systems, and pyrotechnics, becoming a gunner's mate can provide the opportunity to learn all there is to know.
Do you want to learn hands-on medical skills? Do you want to save lives? These technicians care for individuals in distress or life-threatening situations.
ITs manage all of the critical information systems in the Coast Guard.
With the Coast Guard taking an increasingly larger role in homeland security, we've established a new and vitally important rating, intelligence specialist (IS). As an IS, you will be one of the first defenders of our ports and waterways.
MKs maintain engineering systems at virtually every Coast Guard unit and actively participate in operational missions. Technical training and experience obtained are comparable with occupations in commercial engineering and law enforcement fields.
Do you want to get out there and help save and protect the environment?
Protecting America's ports, waterways, and interests at home and abroad. Maritime Enforcement Specialists are trained in Maritime Law Enforcement, Anti-terrorism, Force Protection, and Physical Security.
As an Operations Specialist (OS) you will play a central role in protecting the public from all maritime threats and hazards through command and control of boats, cutters, aircraft and personnel. Working from the nerve center where all major operational plans and decisions are made, you will develop search and rescue plans to save mariners in danger, oversee law enforcement operations, and gather and apply intelligence information while operating the most advanced tactical computer systems in the Coast Guard.
If you have an interest in photography, writing and crisis communications, you could be the main link between the Coast Guard and the public.
Good with numbers? Managing money? Apply your skills to help serve the Coast Guard.
As with any large organization, good human resources management is vital to the Coast Guard.
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