Keywords: US Navy 060630-N-6651N-001 Mass Communication Specialist (MC) 1st Class Arthur Delacruz, right, one of the first Sailors in the Navy to wear the new MC-rating badge, addresses members of the legacy ratings during the media rati.jpg en Mayport Fla June 30 2006 - Mass Communication Specialist MC 1st Class Arthur Delacruz right one of the first Sailors in the Navy to wear the new MC-rating badge addresses members of the legacy ratings during a media ratings merger ceremony held aboard USS John F Kennedy CV 67 Kennedy s Media Officer Lt Cmdr Doolittle left spoke on the history of navy rating badges and then presented Delacruz with a custom-made MC rating badge in advance of the official production uniform article Additionally Delacruz volunteered for the midnight-to-four am quarterdeck watch to be the first MC Navy-wide to assume the watch displaying the new rating badge that becomes official at midnight July 1 2006 U S Navy photo by Photographer s Mate 2nd Class Monica R Nelson RELEASED 2006-06-30 060630-N-6651N-001 Navy http //www navy mil/view_image asp id 36308 U S Navy photo by Photographer s Mate 2nd Class Monica R Nelson PD-USGov-Military-Navy Images from US Navy location Duval County Florida Aboard USS John F Kennedy CV-67 Mass Communication Specialist |