United States Coast Guard
In the U.S. Coast Guard, the ranks are very similar or identical to the ones in the U.S. Navy, and a Coast Guard airman is identical in rank and pay to an airman in the Navy. Coast Guard airman is the enlisted rank that corresponds to the pay grade of E-3 in the Coast Guard's aviation field. (Note that airman includes females; here "man" means "human being".) Airman is just above the Coast Guard rank of airman apprentice, seaman apprentice, fireman apprentice which is the E-2 pay grade, but it is just below the rank of petty officer third class, E-4 pay grade.
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