Expeditionary Warfare Sailors to Get Pin

The Navy’s Enlisted Expeditionary Warfare (EXW) Specialist qualification program and pin were approved July 31. The pin, which will be equivalent to the Navy’s other warfare qualification designations, could be awarded to as many as 40,000 Sailors within six months, said officials. The EXW pin will be available to Sailors assigned to SEAL units under Navy Special Operations Command if the units institute a qualification program to be mandated by a pending Navy instruction. The pin will not be available initially to Sailors on individual augmentee (IA) tours with the Army because it is being established for Sailors qualifying with expeditionary skills involved with maritime security, according to Command Master Chief (EWS/SW) Anthony Santino of the Naval Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC). That exclusion could change if the IA program moves to the NECC.