Everybody gets a participation trophy for serving. What a crock of bullshat.
No more cockswain...
I think this is going to affect morale in the Navy more than anything. Many of those sailors were proud to achieve those ratings. When I was in the AF, we had different "function badges" that were sewn into the utilities similar to the Airborne and CIB patches on the Army uniforms. Ours denoted basic, senior and master levels of our job titles. No difference in pay, but just a little something to be proud of. I know I would be angry if some chair warmer came in and told me I had to take it off.
I wasn't in the Navy, but do the different ratings have any effect on pay or is pay based solely on E-1 through E-9 grades?
To look at it from a bean counters perspective, I'm sure there will be thousands of dollars saved by not having to have rank patches with different ratings sewn in the design.
I wasn't in the Navy, but do the different ratings have any effect on pay or is pay based solely on E-1 through E-9 grades?
To look at it from a bean counters perspective, I'm sure there will be thousands of dollars saved by not having to have rank patches with different ratings sewn in the design.
As I understand it, money had nothing to do with it. It was purely political correctness to remove the word "man" in job titles. This government doesn't care about money any more.
I was an AT (Aviation Electronics Tech) in the Navy and if I was still in this would really piss me off. Our green stripes distinguished us from ships company, and ya we believed we were smarter than the average Boatswain's mate weather it was true or not.
So they will now be referred to as "Seafolk" instead of "Seamen"????
Only 8 of the 57 ratings contain the word "man".
This is such a crock of chit! No reason other than political correctness that this is going on. The whole transfer of skills to the civilian world, and the other reasons given could have been accomplished without changing the rating system. If it isn't broke...
There is a secondary benefit here. Obama and his cronies also get to take one more shot at veterans and America's military history. I bet that was their favorite part.
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