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“We’re going to immediately do away with rating titles and address each other by just our rank as the other services do,” said Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. Robert Burke in a Sept. 19 interview. “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.”
It doesn't say they're doing away with the ratings though. Or I guess they're going to have a sonarman operating the nuclear reactor? Not clear but I don't see how they can make an actual substantive change in the division of labor. In any event, stupidity is accelerating at such an exponential pace nowadays it challenges my grip on reality. I think the are going to go to something like the Army MOS system.
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Dad was Navy; FIL was Navy; I was Navy; son was Navy; Grandson's currently on an LA class nuke. Lot of anger in our family over this.
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I think the are going to go to something like the Army MOS system.
That would make sense. The rating insignias were one of the best things about the uniforms though IMO.
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I agree but the micrometer and gear on my crow might hurt someone's feelings along with the three gold stripes under it and the 6 gold hashmarks on the sleeve. We wouldn't want to hurt anyone feelings.
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My winged anchors might be viewed as weapons by the sensitive types.
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I'll bet the crow on my dungarees is pretty scary as well.
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My IFGA would be incomprehensible to most.
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I got out in January, 1977, after 6 years. I was going to make a career out of it but it had changed so much in the last two years that it was no longer the Navy. They were doing away with the old Dungarees and Dixie hat. Gone was the time when a PO could make you shake in your shoes.
Years later it came back around and now they are trying to destroy it again. Screw the SOB's in DC for making these decisions.
Jim
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