[smokingfrog]

The Sailor of the Year program was established in 1972 by the Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Elmo Zumwalt and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy John Whittet to recognize an individual Sailor who best represented the ever-growing group of dedicated professional Sailors at each command and ultimately the Navy. When the program began, only the Atlantic and Pacific Fleet Sailors were recognized. Within ten years, the Sailor of the Year program was expanded to include the shore establishment and Navy Reserve Sailors.

[napscoordinator]

Congratulations to the four Sailors.

[Gondring]

And two of them are corpsemens.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Glorifying women in the Navy (as well as cultural diversity) is one of CNO Roughead’s pet projects. The word has gone out to push women forward whether they are qualified or not for this kind of stuff.

[Bon mots]

This is ridiculous.
Women have no serious business in fighting forces aside from bureaucratic, administrative and secretarial work.

PC run amok.

[Thrownatbirth]

Ah, Cat Futch, we hardly knew ya! God bless you wherever you are.

[nmh]

Are they lesbians too?

Just asking.

[seemoAR]

Just more “affirmative action”.

[Will88]

PC run amuck. Four women and two of them minorities. Not sure what percentage of naval personnel are now female, but it’s probably 20% or less. And from a small fraction of sailors come all four of the most outstanding.

[Red in Blue PA]

Women comprise what part of the total naval population?

Probably 10%. Yet they win 100% of the awards?

Utter PC BS.

[suthener]

I retired from the Navy in 1998. I was in Naval Reserve Recruiting (a tough job but someone had to do it). A master chief walked into a meeting of supervisors (mostly first class petty officers) and made the proclamation that "there aren't enough women in this room". The production side of this command was all male, the support side was almost all female. To meet their quotas they started promoting women who had never recruited one person into the Naval Reserve and putting them in supervisory positions. I had one chance at chief before I retired. I had been a recruiter (active duty and reserve) for most of my career. Honestly, I wasn't a superstar, but I successfully ran a 3 man recruiting station for many years. Of the two people who were promoted, one was a female out of support and I never found out exactly who the other was. Yes, it left me a tad bitter. Affirmative action is alive and well in all branches of the military.

[Chode]

feh...

[Senator_Blutarski]

This is very much like Obama's Nobel Peace Prize.

Affirmative action.

[DocH]

They all MAY have deserved their recognition, but COME ON, ONLY forced PC, directed by petty and vindictive, small-minded left-wing politicians and their kiss-ass officer minions in the military, could have resulted in ALL four being women.

Expect to see more, MUCH more of this until we can drive these bastards out of office.

Fairness is one thing, but these people skew (politically correct)"fairness" so far to the opposite spectrum that the new outcome is now not just unfair, but ABSURDLY UNFAIR.

[Da Coyote]

Liberalthink has bastardized the Nobel Peace, Economics, and Literature prizes.

It has made a joke of climate science.

It’s corrupting the Navy...with AF not far behind.

Don’t know about the Army...at least nothing’s appeared yet.

Hopefully, the Marines will hold out.

Gads, I love the Marines (and I’m from the USAF)!

[Pollster1]

David R Ray, Hospital Corpsman Second Class, USN, received the Medal of Honor for his service in Viet Nam, as did four corpsmen on Iwo Jima, three on Okinawa, and about fourteen other corpsmen. I can imagine a corpsman deserving both a “top sailor” award and a Medal of Honor (I’ve met several great men who earned that award and survived), but I’m a little curious what these women did that puts them above every single person in the Navy who serves at the pointy end of the spear.

[fr_freak]

"This is a great day for our Navy, and today we are making history with all four Sailors of the Year being women..." said [Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Rick] West.

His very statement shows his agenda of political correctness. Why should the fact that four women received the awards be a great day for the Navy? Does that mean it's not a great day for the Navy if only 3 of the awards were for women, or none? It's only a great day when the politically correct morons see their agenda fulfilled?

[Plutarch]

They were awarded for not getting pregnant.

[Blennos]

In a fair contest, gender neutral, assuming the Navy is comprised of 15% women, the odds of picking 4 out of 4 women is about 1 in 106. It would not happen.

Contests that do not require actual performance are becoming worthless in this and other countries.

[usmcobra]

Seriously what we have here is four dedicated sailors rewarded for their years of outstanding service to this country, only NPR is biased enough to think of them purely based upon their sex.

[TalonDJ]

One of them, I don’t know which, was on a flight I was on late last week. The stewardess announced her and we gave her a round of applause.