Ratings restored: Effective immediately, sailors will get their job titles back

Navy Times ^ | December 20, 2016 | By: David B Larter and Mark Faram,

[US Navy Vet]

Navy leaders are reversing their controversial decision to eliminate sailors’ ratings and will restore job titles across the fleet, according to a Navy message set for release Wednesday.

Effective immediately, enlisted sailors will officially regain their ratings, the traditional job titles that have inspired a deep cultural loyalty and that have defined enlisted career tracks for generations, Navy officials said.

The move comes three months after the Navy stunned sailors around the world in September by eliminated ratings titles, including those such as boatswain’s mate that dated back to the founding of the service.

The extraordinarily rare move comes after a fierce backlash from the fleet that became a distraction from the Navy's broader effort to reform the antiquated personnel system, Navy officials said.

[US Navy Vet]

O HAPPY DAY! :-)!

[US Navy Vet]

Where is the “Like” Button?!

[ConservativeMind]

It’s about dang time.

I felt for all of those in the Navy. PC Cr@p is all it was.

[SpaceBar]

The Trump effect.

[patro]

Awesome! We can also go back to naming ships after heroes and battles.

[Iron Munro]

How much did this New Age boondoggle cost taxpayers?

[JPJones]

Sanity restored.

Way overdue for our new Commander in Chief.

[Secret Agent Man]

great but not enough.

get the homos and dykes and trannies out and screw all this affirmative action/diversity promotions and i will say they’ve got their crap together.

[BipolarBob]

exactly

[WENDLE]

Get women OFF OUR SHIPS!!

[fortheDeclaration]

Another return to reality!

[W.]

YAY!

[savagesusie]

A start.

[Steely Tom]

Well, that was fun.

Remember when Hazel O’Leary, who was Secretary of Energy under Bill Clinton, decreed that all color codes be removed from ID badges used in secure areas of DOE facilities because they were “discriminatory,” or “stigmatizing,” or something.

[arthurus]

Another “Trump” effect, I think. He doesn’t have to be giving orders yet; they know the orders will come and they didn’t really want to do that thing, anyway.

[JohnBrowdie]

I hope the navy doesn’t suffer any further significant damage before trump shows ray maybus, the obamite butt boy, the door.

[Tucker39]

I have a feeling somebody got a phone call from Mar-A-Lago.....telling them the precise coordinates of where the bear defacated in the buckwheat.

[ThomasThomas]

Does this include Commodore?

[ASA Vet]

[Tucker39]

Big question in MY mind; Will POTUS Trump do anything to restore sanity and gender correctness to our military; which includes brooming the assinine gender confusion, women in combat, etc.