Navy·Institutional politics·In Memoriam
Mess Management Specialist
MS
Served: 1975–2004
Navy cooks, jack-of-the-dust commissary managers, and wardroom stewards rolled into one.
The Story
MS itself was born in 1975 from the 1797-vintage Steward (SD) and Commissaryman (CS) ratings — meaning "Culinary Specialist" is really three dead ratings in a row, and the original CS abbreviation got recycled onto something completely different 29 years later.
Epitaph
“Killed for the resume. Same job, better LinkedIn.”
Sources
- Wikipedia — Culinary Specialist USNen.wikipedia.org