The Chief Petty Officer (CPO) is the seventh rank of enlisted personnel in the United States Navy and the United States Coast Guard, just above the first-class petty officer and below the senior chief petty officer. This rank is responsible for providing leadership and guidance to junior officers and enlisted personnel. They are also responsible for training junior officers and managing their divisions of sailors and non-commissioned officers. The term qualification is used to identify the occupational specialties recruited.
Leadership responsibility increases significantly in the ranks of mid-level enlisted men. An Army sergeant, an Air Force sergeant major, and a Marine Corporal are considered non-commissioned officer ranks. The equivalent of petty officer of the Navy, petty officer, is obtained with the rank of third class petty officer. In addition to greater responsibilities, chief petty officers enjoy a wide variety of benefits while in service, far greater than those received by non-commissioned officers or enlisted sailors.
They are also responsible for preparing rations for a working group when requested by their supervisory chief. Senior and executive officers have also complained that their bosses were no longer what they were, that they no longer exercised firm control over their men, and that they tolerated the poor work of their subordinates. Consequently, the first to complain about this apparent loss of prestige were the petty officers in chief themselves. Because the Navy expanded so rapidly during the years of World War II, many young NCOs earned the CPO qualification in a third of the time required by pre-war chiefs and, as a result, the new enlisted first degree NCOs in wartime did not have the experience or maturity of their older brothers.
After a highly competitive selection process, the selected candidates are incorporated into the Chief's community by their new colleagues and commanding officers. The chief petty officer of the fleet is a rank commissioned and published in the official gazette in the Pakistan Navy above chief petty officer and below chief petty officer and below chief petty officer. Most senior and executive officers will instruct junior officers in the practice of maintaining productive relationships with chief non-commissioned officers when they notice that the junior officer seems to be overseeing a boss. On the other hand, men also despise the chief petty officer, who is too soft, who lets his men sit idle, stay loose at work, and who lets himself be confused by the slack exerted by the few troublemakers in the team. If a subordinate considers that the unofficial administration of military discipline by a boss is too arbitrary and resorts to the commanding officer for redress, their appeal will most commonly be resolved in favor of the boss's previous sentence. Many minor offenders have to thank their boss for taking them out of the disciplinary embers before the commanding officer, because the captain believed that the best thing was to hand over the offender to his chief petty officer. He will advise a man not to speak to an officer in more familiar terms than befits the military relationship between an officer and a soldier.
