If you want to honor your Dad's service and rating(job), you might want to get one of these(a marlinspike)every boatswain's mate carries one and it would look nice in a case with his name, rank and date of service. If you want to honor your Dad's service and rating(job), you might want to get one of these(a marlinspike)every boatswain's mate carries one and it would look nice in a case with his name, rank and date of service.
Trueblackman said it best. Also these make a great gifts to any Navy man. I have given one to all my Navy brothers and they still try to bogart mine just because my sub runs on baking powder.