* Petty officer

Chief Petty Officer is the seventh enlisted rank in the U. S. Navy and U. S. Coast Guard, just above Petty Officer First Class and below Senior Chief Petty Officer, and is a senior non-commissioned officer.

* Petty officer

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Petty officer, 2nd class, PO2, is a Naval non-commissioned member rank of the Canadian Forces.

Petty officer, 1st class, PO1, is a Naval non-commissioned member rank of the Canadian Forces.

Petty officer, 2nd class ( PO2 ) ( maître de deuxième classe or m2 in French ) is equivalent to a Sergeant and Petty officer, 1st class ( PO1 ) ( maître de première classe or m1 ) is equivalent to a warrant officer.

Petty officer is the lowest of the senior rating grades.

Petty officer 1st class insignia.

Petty officer, first class is equivalent to staff sergeant in the United States Army and Marine Corps, and technical sergeant in the United States Air Force.

Petty officer, second class is equivalent to sergeant in the United States Army and Marine Corps, and staff sergeant in the United States Air Force.

Petty officer, third class is equivalent to corporal in the United States Army ( or specialist ), corporal in the United States Marine Corps, and senior airman in the United States Air Force.

Petty officer third class shares the same pay grade as senior airman in the Air Force, which no longer has an NCO rank corresponding with E-4.

To address a petty officer, one would say, " Petty Officer Smith ", " Smith ", or " Sailor " ( the latter two forms being acceptable for use by those equal or greater in rank than the Petty Officer ).

He was the third driver in NASCAR history to win both the Rookie of the Year and Cup Series championship in his career, joining David Pearson and Richard Petty.

Pertwee is best known for a series of famous roles, firstly his 18-year stint on BBC Radio as Chief Petty Officer Pertwee in The Navy Lark, secondly his role in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, in which he played the third incarnation of the Doctor from 1970 to 1974 and thirdly as the title character in the series Worzel Gummidge.

* Robert Walker ( USN ) ( born 1929 ), third Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy

Damn the Torpedoes is the third album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released in 1979.

It is Pearson's third and final title, tied with Lee Petty.

In the third turn on the final lap, Petty nudged Earnhardt's car and the GM Goodwrench Chevrolet spun.

A third contender, Lee Petty, had more controversial problems, as he was stripped of 809 points ( at that time, the equivalent of winning 4 races or 5 third place finishes ) by NASCAR for racing in non-NASCAR sanctioned races.

Edward Wolstenholme Ward, a son of John Petty Ward, younger brother of the third Viscount, sat in the New South Wales Legislative Council.

Petty officer, second class is the fifth enlisted rate in the U. S. Navy, U. S. Coast Guard, and the United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps, just above petty officer third class and below petty officer first class, and is a non-commissioned officer.

The poor performance dropped Petty all the way to fifth in the final standings, as Cale Yarborough took the runner up spot on the season with his third place effort.

Ambrose returned to Richard Petty Motorsports for 2012 ; in June, he posted the fastest qualifying speed in NASCAR competition in 25 years, winning his first career Sprint Cup pole at Michigan International Speedway at a speed of, the third fastest pole speed ever in NASCAR.

In May, while practicing for a Busch Series race, Adam Petty perished when his throttle stuck exiting the second turn, resulting in a full speed crash head-on in the middle of the third and fourth turns.

If, as NASCAR did with other combined division races, wins were awarded based on classes similar to sportscar racing and regional series ( K & N Pro Series currently ), Petty would have a 201st win ( in the same Grand American win for Allison ), Langley a third win ( 1971 at Hickory ; Lund in a Grand American ), and Glotzbach a second win ( 1971 at North Wilkesboro ; Lund in a Grand American ) based on winning the Grand National class.

In 1967 Dick Hutcherson made 33 starts with 2 wins, 20 top 5's, and third overall, Richard Petty, the 1964 champion, made David Pearson's 1966 season look somewhat mortal.

Dick Hutcherson was third in points and was runner-up to Petty in the race.

The retro-styled Valvoline 44 raced its way in to the Daytona 500, and third in his Daytona 500 debut, also his personal best, and is the best Daytona 500 debut except for Lee Petty in the 1959 Daytona 500, Scott Wimmer in the 2004 Daytona 500 and Trevor Bayne in the 2011 Daytona 500.

The car finished a team-high third in the points, with four wins, one of which was at New Hampshire in September where NASCAR used restrictor plates following the deaths of Adam Petty and Kenny Irwin earlier that year, along with 22 top ten finishes and one pole position.

In addition, Petty Officer Razka ( from the third novel, Reap The Whirlwind ) first appears in the Next Generation novel A Time To Kill by David Mack, and Carol Marcus from Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan appears at the end of the same novel.

Roper was the third NASCAR driver to perish from racing related injuries in 2000, the first two being Adam Petty and Kenny Irwin, Jr., respectively.

Petty is a member of the inaugural class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

Two months before filming, Lori Petty, Reeves, and Swayze trained with former world class professional surfer Dennis Jarvis on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.

A petty officer second class may be generically referred to as PO2 when the sailor's rating is not known, although some prefer to be called simply " Petty Officer ( Martinez ).

Petty officer, first class is the sixth enlisted rate in the United States Navy and the United States Coast Guard, just above petty officer, second class and below that of chief petty officer.

* Chief Boatswain's Mate ( abbreviated as BMC ), a class of Chief Petty Officer in the US Navy

NASCAR stars such as Rusty Wallace, Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Greg Biffle, Kurt Busch, Kyle Petty, Mark Martin, Jamie McMurray, Kevin Harvick, and Robby Gordon have all participated, with Martin and Gordon notably winning several class victories for Roush Racing in the GTO class in the 1980s – 90s.

The Barker index is published for the Barker Index Committee by W. Heffer & Sons, Ltd., 4 Petty Cury, Cambridge, England.

* 1893 – The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.

He earned seven championships, which is tied for the most all time with Richard Petty.

" Little Nemo in Slumberland " is also the inspiration for the video of the 1989 song Runnin ' Down a Dream by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers.

William Petty, a strong mercantilist, is generally credited with being the first to use empirical analysis to study the economy.

Richard Lee Petty ( born July 2, 1937 ) is a former NASCAR driver who raced in the Strictly Stock / Grand National Era and the NASCAR Winston Cup Series.

Petty is a second generation driver.

Richard's son, Kyle Petty, is also a well-known NASCAR driver.

The Richard Petty Museum is in nearby Randleman, North Carolina.

He is a simulated major general in the Rainbow Six book, though he only reached the rank of Chief Boatswain's Mate ( Chief Petty Officer ) during his Naval career.

The Royal Australian Navy rank of Warrant Officer ( WO ) is the Navy's only rank appointed by warrant and is equivalent to the Army's WO1 ( the equivalent of the Army's WO2 rank is a Chief Petty Officer ).

* April 1 – The rank of Chief Petty Officer is established in the United States Navy.

One passenger, U. S. Navy Petty Officer Robert Stethem, is killed.

Petty crime, however, is more common, particularly in the form of pickpocketing, which occurs mainly on the city's public transport network.

Petty Officer 1st Class Timothy Jackson is one of nine respiratory therapists aboard USNS Comfort

Thomas Earl " Tom " Petty ( born October 20, 1950 ) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch.

An Ogeechee lime tree that he planted while employed at the University is now called the Tom Petty tree .< ref >

Casey Ryback ( Steven Seagal ), a Chief Petty Officer assigned as a cook, is preparing meals in celebration of the birthday of Captain Adams ( Patrick O ' Neal ), against the orders of Commander Krill ( Gary Busey ), who is having food and entertainment brought by helicopter.

Krill discovers that Ryback is really a Chief Petty Officer and former Navy SEAL.