Shore-side responsibilities include repairs and installations to roofs, siding, sheetrock, windows, doors, flooring, cabinets, plumbing fixtures, appliances, and many types of welding repairs. They are also involved with the engineering watches and associated duties, since it is an engineering rating.ĭCs assigned ashore are responsible for the maintenance and repairs to facility structures and Coast Guard–owned housing units.
They also train others onboard in shipboard firefighting and repairing of damage to its structure. Their primary responsibility is to mitigate damage to ships received under either combat or non-combat conditions.Ĭoast Guard damage controlmen assigned to cutters are responsible for maintaining watertight integrity, emergency equipment associated with firefighting and shipboard flooding plumbing repairs welding fabrication and repairs and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) warfare, detection, and decontamination. The damage controlman (DC) rating was established in 1948 as a consolidation of the Fireman and Painter specialties with the Carpenter's Mate rating.
People who are in the damage controlman (DC) rating are the Navy's and Coast Guard’s maintenance and emergency repair specialists. A chief damage controlman and master chief damage controlman demonstrating how to apply a box patch to a ruptured bulkhead at the Yokosuka Fire Fighting and Damage Control Training Facility
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