339:(CGIS). They wear insignia essentially like that of their U.S. Navy counterparts, but add the USCG shield between the rank insignia and the specialty mark, as Coast Guard commissioned officers do with their rank insignia. Like their U.S. Navy counterparts, candidates for the rank of chief warrant officer must typically be serving in the chief petty officer rates, however, the U.S. Coast Guard also permits selection of petty officer first class in the top 50% of the advancement list to chief petty officer. Like the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Coast Guard also does not use the rank of Warrant Officer (WO1). Aviles spent most of the World War II years training recruits at the U.S. Coast Guard Training Station (where
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