[Bryanw92]

Old Navy:

Officer: You’re an EM, right? Can you fix this?
Me: Does it have a wire? Hell yeah I can fix it.
(15 minutes later)
Me: OK. It’s fixed.
Officer: All ahead flank!

New Navy:

Officer: Does anyone know what NOS code fixes this thing?
Everyone: Don’t know. That’s not my NOS code.
Officer: Someone’s gotta fix it.
Everyone: Sucks to be you.
(Boat sinking)
Officer: Abandon ship!

[sparklite2]

I’m Popeye the B210 tech.
Employers will say, “What the heck?
Too big for your britches,
You’ll be digging ditches,
As Popeye the B210 tech.”

[Rurudyne]

I don’t know if you ever played any role playing games, never mind Warhammer 40000, but it really is something that under influence of political correctness our actual military is slowly getting even weirder than a space fairing empire where routine maintenance is shrouded in ceremonial religious mysticism.

[A Navy Vet]

I suspect that will be an re-occurring problem. Have they given any thought about the claim it will expand a sailor's abilities and the associated costs for schools and training to do such? This idiotic change will cost millions and millions in additional training, not to mention the costs to the sailors to change their arm patches.

I understood the change from chambray shirts and dungarees to camis because ships are dirty, oily, greasy mechanisms. I can't count how many times I had to replace my working uniforms because of spots. And you had to keep one chambray shirt/dungarees pristine for inspections.

This is only to do away with the word "man" at the end of some ratings. Just change it to "mate" like a lot of current ratings and save the Navy culture and money. Also, what a bogus argument it will prepare sailors for civilian jobs.

They want NOS sailors to be "jack of all trades, but master of none". Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. No wonder I'm seeing SO many Navy recruiting commercials on various cable shows. They do that when retention is low.