How to Address Enlisted USN Personnel on an Invitation?
I am engaged to a member of the Marine Corps and have several military invitations that I’m trying to address. I seem to have all the Marine’s under control with their ranks; however, I have a couple of members of the Navy and am unsure how to address their outer envelope. I know that enlisted Navy personnel have rates (such as HM2) instead of an actual rank, but do not know how you use this on the invitation. Thank you in advance for your help!!i — Katie (and Todd) Dear Katie (and Todd), I cover the Navy on pages 215-224. The USN has both officers and enlisted personnel. All are addressed the same way on social correspondence: Rank + Name. The most formal way to address an envelope is to do so without abbreviations, spelling out every word. So, for example, Hospital Corpsman Second Class (name) is preferable to HM2 (name) for example. But when a name gets very long and space becomes an issue … using the abbreviation HM2 is acceptable. USN (the post-nominal abbreviation for the bran
