[MagUSNRET]

I have a thought...........How about leaving the US NAVY alone and stop queerifying it!

[dp0622]

he tripled maternity leave...

quadruple it!!!

quintuple it!!!

SIX YEARS off if you have a baby!!

paid of course.

[richardtavor]

As a Yeoman veteran, the hell with this administration, and the wienies that are left in charge. When I served, the CNO was Admiral Zumwalt, and I regularly had to pass on all of the “Z Grams” that he dictated. I had respect for him and the brass. I have a lot less for the ones now, especially John Kirby, former Admiral, who is now the State Department’s Press Spokesman. That lying SOB would have never made it in our Navy! Change our name? Up your ballast a-holes...

[rlmorel]

It is embarrassing, but that isn’t the part that bothers me. The part that bothers me is the liberal conversion of the US military from a fighting force into a government jobs program.

Blood is going to be shed, and battles and wars are going to be lost because the military is more concerned with things like maternity outfits, transsexual opportunities and cultural sensitivity than they are with shipboard damage control, CEP of munitions, and infantry tactics and logistics.

It is criminal. And the people responsible for this are going to be the loudest voices looking for scapegoats when it all goes wrong.

[AndyJackson]

The problem is not actually women in the Navy. A lot of women do just fine. The problem is the leadership who thinks that this sort of nonsense is solving a real problem. There are real problems: i.e. successor to the Ohio class SSBNs, or what to do about the fact that the Minnesota was built with defective reactor plant parts (some crook needs a visit in the dark of the nights by some men who your mother might not think are very nice), or what to do about the F-18 successor since the F-35 is an overpriced dog. Or what to do about a country whose security depends upon being a maritime power re-gearing itself to find land counterinsurgencies in the middle east and screwing that up pretty badly. And all of these are properly the purview of the Secretary of the Navy.

Those are things we need leadership for - not worrying about whether Yeoman 1st Class Cindy Jones would rather be called Administrative specialist Jones. And what have we done with Quartermaster now that Harvard has decided that master is a sexist title? Navigator's mate is even worse except maybe for the Naviguessor.

It was all well enough and could have been left alone.

There are centuries behind these customs and traditions and the sea-service has honored them for good reason. Now its a way of life gone with the wind.

[No.6]

This is too easy: Yeoman and Yeomyn. Both are pronounced identically :p

/s and all other appropriate tags.