Posted on 12/09/2016 6:28:54 PM PST by kevcol
The goal of the job title review Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus initiated back in January is to make women feel more included now that they have access to all combat roles, but the reason midshipman will remain in its current state is because the name is a rank stipulated by the law, Capital Gazette reports.
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In late September, the Navy announced that it was ditching historic job titles and revamping the entire system, in effect removing an element that made the Navy unique from other services in the military.
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Sailors have reacted in a largely negative way. A petition to reverse the change reached 100,000 signatures, prompting the White House to weigh in on the matter, but unsurprisingly, the White House backed the job title system change pioneered by Navy brass.
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That changes as of noon on January 20.
If they keep this up, a pharmacist’s mate will actually be married to the pharmacist! /s;)
I see the problem right there.
Don't they realize that calling women "women" is just another degrading attempt by the patriarchy to keep them down. Why, the word "women" has "men" right in the middle of it.
From now on the Obamunists need to start calling them "wo" instead.
That'll fix everything.
how about ‘midshipsissies’? Mad Dog needs to address these maggots and say “You’re in the freaking military- ACT LIKE IT! Stop your damned whining! This isn’t a day care center-”
No Army-Navy games for me into the foreseeable future.
“midshipperson”
Huperson. As in, the huperson race. And hupersonity.
And woperson. The plural would be wopeople.
Anything to avoid saying “man.”
The rank of Commodore is one star and has an interesting on-again off-again history.
Trump needs to get rid of ALL these politically correct a-holes obammy has running anything in the military.
Our military is not a freaken social experiment
Are they commissioned or non-commissioned?
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