[C19fan]

/src on/Besides the short skirts, Star Fleet was sexist for referring to Janice Rand as Yeoman Rand./src off/ Operation Petticoat was a comedy not a how to manual.

[butlerweave]

Don’t tell Muslims about the Poop Deck

[Smokin' Joe]

Just tell the ‘helmsperson’ which way to steer...Apparently port is the default direction.

[PATRIOT1876]

My dolphin says, “That's specieist!”

[Pontiac]

More meaningless political correctness that does nothing but cost the taxpayer millions of dollars or sow confusion.

If the change the word seaman to seaperson in navel manuals and other documents it will cost the nations millions of dollars to do nothing more than change that single word on thousands of documents.

And what good will have been done. NONE

[mbynack]

We use to joke about this when I was on active duty more than 20 years ago. We made a list of terms that would have to change:

Cockpit - Pilot Workstation
Airman - Air Person

etc.

[5thGenTexan]

The generic maritime designation for peopl on a ship is “souls”, but the atheists and possibly the agnostics would be offended. On second thought, the agnostics wouldn’t care one way or another...

[DannyTN]

"Got a whale of a tale to tell ya, lads persons
A whale of a tale or two
'Bout the flappin' fish and the girls partners I've loved
On nights like this with the moon above
A whale of a tale and it's all true
I swear by my tattoo"

It's just not going to be the same.

[moovova]

Semen is no longer a valid word in the US Navy?

[ozzymandus]

Yes this is more important than defending our country, definitely.

[Travis T. OJustice]

I like how the article shows Army and Coast Guard personnel. Good job, journalist.

[DungeonMaster]

In the Army we called sailors “squids” so how about Squid Overboard!

[headstamp 2]

Mabus is a real dipsh**.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The next SecDef and SecNav will be just as busy as the POTUS in erasing all the crapola created by Barry and his boys.

The military is going to have to have a serious purge of all the deviants, dead weights, enablers, rotting wood, and useless flag officers. Barry tried to fire all the good ones, so it will take a decade or more to reestablish order and discipline.

[jonrick46]

"All hands man you battle stations! . . . Whoops!"

[CodeJockey]

[Yaelle]

But “person overboard” does not give enough description about their sexual orientation or other cherished minority status. What if the person were gay? How would the other sailors know that this was a person to be saved over a boring old white straight person? There needs to be some descriptor sentence used, including all memberships in protected groups, so that everyone could know exactly how important it is to save that particular person.

[Covenantor]

...Navy Secretary Ray Mabus ordered a review of all job titles to determine whether references to 'man' can be removed from positions such as seaman and yeoman....

So seaman becomes "sea".

And yeoman becomes "yeo"?

Guess that would work for 57 odd genders... sheesh

[Pollster1]

boatswain: (boot = boat + swein = boy)
replacement - boatobama (boot = boat + obama = completely lacking in all male/masculine traits)

seaman: seaperson?

fireman: fireperson?

airman: airperson?

radioman: radioperson?

torpedoman: torpedoperson

. . .

It’s sad what even a brief dose of leftism will do to language.

[FrankR]

Are humans now “hupersons”?

[Zack Attack]

Wow! Just wow!

Man...er...Biological life form overboard!