page_title: Mass communication specialist
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Mass communication specialist / History
caption_attribution_description: English: PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago (Sept. 19, 2007) - Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kelly Barnes and Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jeff Hall interview Dr. Roy Austin, U.S. ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago. The two Sailors attached to Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) interviewed Austin following a tour the ship. Comfort is on a four-month humanitarian deployment to Latin America and the Caribbean providing medical treatment to patients in a dozen countries. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joshua Karsten (RELEASED)
context_page_description: Mass Communication Specialist is a United States Navy public affairs type rating. MCs practice human-centered design to develop creative communication solutions and align communication strategies and tactics to leadership's intent; conduct research and develop audience profiles; prepare, process, and print publications and media products; create sketches, storyboards, and graphics; design publications; produce still imagery, and written, audio, video, and multimedia information products; collect, analyze, and report media project and communication plan feedback and performance information; create media project plans; conduct community outreach, news media operations, leadership communication operations, and organizational communication operations; plan and direct communication campaigns and events and serve as communication advisors to commanders; and develop content strategies, create data stories, and ensure communication products and experiences are designed to enhance understanding and discoverability. MCs serve aboard ships, in expeditionary units and at shore commands in the United States and overseas.
context_section_description: The Navy MC rating was established on July 1, 2006 when the Illustrator Draftsman, Journalist, Lithographer and Photographers Mate ratings merged. The merge of the four legacy ratings was announced by the Chief of Naval Operations in NAVADMIN 339/05. The legacy ratings were merged to improve efficiency, support optimal manning, and better align the rating with commercial industry practices.
caption: A pair of mass communication specialists interviewing the American ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, Roy Austin, September 2007
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