[200] Coast Guard: Ensign (ENS) Acrylic Award

Introducing project “Military Insignia 3D”, featuring top quality military heraldry designs. Here you will find customizable apparel, accessories, stationery, postage and gifts decorated with rank insignia of a Coast Guard Ensign (ENS). Ensign is a junior rank of a commissioned officer in the Coast Guard. Ensign ranks below lieutenant junior grade, and it is equivalent to a second lieutenant in the other branches of service. Depending upon the warfare community, an ensign may go directly to a warship after being commissioned to serve as a division officer, or he or she may serve up one to two years of specialty training before reporting to a combat unit (e.g. flight school, weapons systems school, navigator school, submarine school, amphibious warfare school, radar school). Ensigns who become division officers are responsible for leading a group of petty officers and enlisted men in one of the ship's divisions (for example, engineering, navigation, communications, sensors or weapons) while at the same time receiving on-the-job training in leadership, naval systems, programs, and policies from higher-ranking officers and from enlisted men and women. Coast Guard ensigns wear collar insignia of a single gold bar and because of this share the nickname "butterbars" with second lieutenants of the other branches, who wear the same insignia.