I've found another effect. There are apparently categories of ranks: ordinary seamen, petty officers, and chiefs. They accumulate experience points during the mission, and will get a promotion to the next rank while at sea, but only within their current category. Once a seaman, for example, accumulates 1150 experience, he stops getting any more. If you give him a promotion (which has a side effect of you chosing a specialty for him) he becomes a petty officer, and now starts accumulating experience again. Once they top out in the petty officer category, you give him another promotion to make him a chief petty officer, and then he starts again.
Now, I have no idea if you can give a Master Chief Petty Officer a promotion and make him an officer. It's been the chiefs who get the bonus abilities thus far, in my experience.
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