Posted on 12/20/2016 8:01:34 PM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at navytimes.com ...
I still try to maintain a rather low profile. . .
Run Silent, Run Deep
Regards,
HLB
AMEN! This is great and hopefully the first of many such reversals!
They are lurking everywhere. LOL
Death from below!
Good. The Navy is the Navy. It has Traditions, something 0bamorrhoid idiots will never understand.
The Navy could do it or Trump would do it. I guess the Navy bet on the wrong horse. This is the first of many of the stupid PC items that must leave the military.
WOW! There’s a name I completely forgot about .. good memory!
ditto
At the rate they're going, who knows if there will ever be another president that is recognizable as a 'Democrat'?
Now if only the would bring back my old rating, Radioman!
Another win!
My arms and legs are a little bit sore from jumping around and waving but ‘I ain’t no ways tired’ yet.
Roger that.
Very happy about this, from a retired IT1....
Now throw Mabus out on his a**.
They also need to get that piece of trash designated as the SecAF out as of yesterday before she completely destroys what once was the greatest and mightiest air force the World has ever seen. Two thirds of the TRIAD and almost hollow with morale in the negatives numbers due to the rampant political correctness.
Yes and to this day I believe the real reason was to make it easier for agents of foreign power(s) to snoop around.
>> If you are NOT NAVY then just KEEP YOUR NOSE OUT OF THIS!
I’m Air Force and I get it! (Have you seen that goofy-a$$ed logo that replaced our WW2 vintage one?)
Thank goodness, another dumbsh*t obama idea out the window.
The Trumpster siumply cannot erase the brainless obama legacy quickly enough.
One begins to feel like those post-Brezhnev communists watching Lenin’s statues being pulled down.
You have to wonder how much money
Was wasted in this example of PC
Stupidity. Forms reprinted, etc.
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