Navy Removes All Historic Job Titles After Study On Gender Neutrality

dailycaller.com ^ | 9/29/16 | Jonah Bennett

[ColdOne]

replacing them with occupational specialty codes, as opposed to direct titles, effectively removing the word “man” from job titles in a roundabout way.

According to Navy Times, what this decision means in practice is that “Fire Controlman 1st Class Joe Sailor…would be Petty Officer 1st Class Joe Sailor.”

“We’re going to immediately do away with rating titles and address each other by just our rank as the other services do,” Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. Robert Burke told Navy Times. “We recognize that’s going to be a large cultural change, it’s not going to happen overnight, but the direction is to start exercising that now.”

[ViLaLuz]

Yet they made all E-3s “Seaman”?

[hanamizu]

They want NOS sailors to be “jack of all trades, but master of none”. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

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The same trend is occurring in education, ie. Common Core. Kids are exposed to dozens of concepts, but are not given the opportunity to master any of them. Perhaps the Navy is changing to reflect how and what its future recruits are going to be. (I know the primary focus is to get rid of the evil “-man” in so many ratings as well).

There is also the idea to make all of the services more like each other rather than celebrating each service’s uniqueness. I am reminded of when Canada unified all of it branches into one service. One cartoon of the time showed a chief crying in his beer after being addressed as “Sarge”.

[A Navy Vet]

"Sailors are proud of their ratings, I know I was. My pride in making JO3 was in equal parts the promotion and the right to wear the quill and scroll. Every rating has its history, heroes, lore, traditions, and bitches. It’s all woven into the tapestry of history that makes up our beloved service. This idea sucks on so many levels I can’t even begin to describe them. It won’t last."

Good for you. I was also extremely proud to wear the crossed anchors with wings being an Aviation Boatswain Mate. I earned it on the flight deck for the around the clock hours. I friggin earned those wings. I have them on a Navy Veteran cap I often wear. Screw Maybus and all the other PC bastards that are destroying our military services. If not broken, damnit, don't fix it!!

[Bubba_Leroy]

Sorry, still no good. They end with "son." Try "woperchild" and "huperchild."

Too ageist. Also discriminatory against Gaia's other non-sapien beings. Maybe "woentity" and "huentity."

[gnarledmaw]

It should have neen done at least that long ago regarding the names. Whats all the crying about loss of badges? If these guys needs badges they should join the boy scouts. While theyre at it they should ban the various queer at sea ceremonies.

All this childish horseshit is an unnecessary distraction in a modern professional military force and should not be conflated with the extremely critical issue of qualification/testing. That IS a very serious issue, WTF is this guy thinking?

[A Navy Vet]

You don't know. The Navy is the most technical military service of all. There was a reason that ratings were established long ago with corresponding patches.

Plus, how dare you denigrate us Sailors for pride in our job descriptions. You're an ass, but agree with queers going away.

[lee martell]

When I was on a small ship, and we sailed past the Equator, I was one of the few enlisted that refused to go through hazing. I just said no. I didn’t look like fun, and I didn’t need someone’s friendship that bad, if this was supposed to be the bonding moment of brotherhood.

[A Navy Vet]

Guess the Navy should also do away with the SEALs pin/emblem? Also, the surface and submariner pins? What about the Army's CIB? According to your thinking, the military doesn't need medals to show who has been where and done what.

Maybe we should just give every person who served ONE ribbon/medal for just being there, no matter how greater their contribution. We could do away with the Congressional Medal of Honor, and the Navy Cross, and the Silver Star. Let's just do as we do with our kids nowadays and give them a trophy for participating. Don't want anyone to try to excel past their peers.

[Impy]

Getting rid of terms for daring to indicate gender REALLLLLLLLLLY p*sses me off. Of all the PC BS...

This is a disgrace. Might as well rename all the ships the USS Jimmy Carter.

[GOPsterinMA]

The children know the game’s done; they’re redoubling their efforts to piss on the carpets as they’re thrown out...

[PhilCollins]

I was in the navy for 21 years, and I hate those changes. I was a hospital corpsman. That rating has had that name since 1898, and I hope no one will change the name.

[NFHale]

Everything this assclown has done can and will be undone.

One way or the other.

[Clintonfatigued]

You were a corpsman? According to Barack Obama, you were a corpseman.