Hey, Navy what is this?

Farm Boy Deuce

Did any of you other Navy guys see that USN has done away with Rates? That is about enough to piss me off. 200 years and now the thinks the Army has the right idea. Dumbasses.

https://www.navytimes.com/articles/the-end-of-ratings-whats-next-in-the-navys-radical-enlisted-shake-up

Varmintmist

Dont worry, its the Nav, they will still find a way to make the simple silly.

Big Chief

Just more of these social experiments/agenda pushing PC/ LGBT/ Gender Neutral/ Fruitcake idys down the throats of our military.

Big Al1

The rating our fearless leaders are looking for is "Mindless Drone!!"

zorba

I don't understand everything I read in that article, but it sounds like a Charlie Foxtrot of the first order.

Big Chief

zorba wrote: »

I don't understand everything I read in that article, but it sounds like a Charlie Foxtrot of the first order.

Hey, Sailors used to go ashore and watch belly dancers in exotic lands...................heck they may allow them to serve abroad ships now without a rating...........

Won't need Marines in grass skirts aboard ship anymo:rotflmao: :rotflmao:

zorba

Big Chief wrote: »

Won't need Marines in grass skirts anymo:rotflmao: :rotflmao:

Ya mean Ned's out of a job?!? :yikes:

woodsrunner

26 years associated with the Navy. E-1 to E-5, then "over the bows" and O-1 to O-5 and retired. Excuse me while I go back to the fantail and PUKE!

tennmike

This is the result when you have a mentally deficient morally bankrupt brain cell deficient crap hole window licker Democrat hack in the SecNav position. Gonna be fun trying to figure out who does what aboard ship. Gonna be a whole lot of 'that ain't my job, Chief' stuff when you're trying to get something done. You sure you want to mistakenly put a former GMG on the radar or a EM on the boiler watch??!! :roll2: Gonna be a cluster fornication of highest order. Running these social engineering experiments on the military is going to make a mess that will take YEARS to clean up.

Diver43

The way I read the article it is the Navy will still have their specialty positions and jobs, but instead of calling a yeoman first class YN1 he/she will be called PO1

snake284

Nobummer is all about killing tradition. You want to kill a country, kill its traditions. And it's all done in the name of progress. That's why Obummer is a progressive.

I hope Hitlery chimes in on this. She deserves some of the credit.

tennmike

Diver43 wrote: »

The way I read the article it is the Navy will still have their specialty positions and jobs, but instead of calling a yeoman first class YN1 he/she will be called PO1

Over the 1MC on a carrier somewhere at sea, "PO3 Smith report to the bridge immediately!" 20+ PO3 Smiths show up on the bridge. See the fornicating problem? :roll2:

Varmintmist

tennmike wrote: »

Over the 1MC on a carrier somewhere at sea, "PO3 Smith report to the bridge immediately!" 20+ PO3 Smiths show up on the bridge. See the fornicating problem? :roll2:

Well if the Smiths have a fornicating problem, then a ship is a good place for all 20.

NN

Heck

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they want to join the Marines.

:iwo:

NN

zorba wrote: »

Ya mean Ned's out of a job?!? :yikes:

Watch it, Klinger!

Big Chief

NN wrote: »

Watch it, Klinger!

Ned you are insufferable toward Zorba...............in a friendly way.



:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :spittingcoffee:

NN

tennmike wrote: »

Over the 1MC on a carrier somewhere at sea, "PO3 Smith report to the bridge immediately!" 20+ PO3 Smiths show up on the bridge. See the problem? :roll2:

NO

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now you have a working party

tennmike

NN wrote: »

NO

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now you have a working party

On a carrier the working party would be Marines! Army got their mules, and the Navy got the Marines! :rotflmao:

zorba

Big Chief wrote: »

Ned you are insufferable toward Zorba...............in a friendly way.



:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :spittingcoffee:

Ned's one of the good ones. I figured he'd have an "appropriate" comeback! :roll2:

zorba

NN wrote: »

Watch it, Klinger!

I probably would - might be interesting to see a Marine in a grass skirt! Itchy things though, by all accounts.

Varmintmist

http://www.duffelblog.com/2016/10/navy-shocked-sailors-didnt-immediately-embrace-killing-200-year-old-tradition/?utm_source=Duffel+Blog+Fans&utm_campaign=f4a0995a7c-Duffel_Blog_Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6d392bc034-f4a0995a7c-23821741&goal=0_6d392bc034-f4a0995a7c-23821741&mc_cid=f4a0995a7c&mc_eid=1f22c376fd

Farm Boy Deuce

Varmintmist wrote: »

http://www.duffelblog.com/2016/10/navy-shocked-sailors-didnt-immediately-embrace-killing-200-year-old-tradition/?utm_source=Duffel+Blog+Fans&utm_campaign=f4a0995a7c-Duffel_Blog_Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6d392bc034-f4a0995a7c-23821741&goal=0_6d392bc034-f4a0995a7c-23821741&mc_cid=f4a0995a7c&mc_eid=1f22c376fd

Actually that article is where I read about this first. Then I followed the embedded link to Navy Times.

Farm Boy Deuce

tennmike wrote: »

On a carrier the working party would be Marines! Army got their mules, and the Navy got the Marines! :rotflmao:

Not usually Marines on a carrier anymore, probably since tactical nukes went out of style. The only time I saw any embarked Marines was the times a Marine squadron was doing their flight deck quals.

tennmike

Farm Boy Deuce wrote: »

Not usually Marines on a carrier anymore, probably since tactical nukes went out of style. The only time I saw any embarked Marines was the times a Marine squadron was doing their flight deck quals.

:uhm: Navy must have gone downhill since I got out. Another tradition that quietly bit the dust. Back then, anything heavy cruiser and above had some Marines on it. Us DD, DDG, DEG, and DLG didn't have room for them nor need them. And our language and general demeanor were seen as detrimental to the corps; where ya think the Marines learned how to cuss! :roll2:

NN

Farm Boy Deuce wrote: »

Not usually Marines on a carrier anymore, probably since tactical nukes went out of style. The only time I saw any embarked Marines was the times a Marine squadron was doing their flight deck quals.

You were part of the new Navy, we [the old Corps] had 4 plane Dets from my Squadron since the end of the Vietnam war on carriers. The end of the EA-6A & EA-6B era and the gulf War ended that requirement.

Farm Boy Deuce

We had EA-6s, they just demoted Navy pilots to fly them.

Farm Boy Deuce

tennmike wrote: »

:uhm: Navy must have gone downhill since I got out. Another tradition that quietly bit the dust. Back then, anything heavy cruiser and above had some Marines on it. Us DD, DDG, DEG, and DLG didn't have room for them nor need them. And our language and general demeanor were seen as detrimental to the corps; where ya think the Marines learned how to cuss! :roll2:

We had other serious dudes with their own Conex boxes in one hangar bay, they kind of kept to themselves.

Sarge

So now instead of calling the Marines the court jesters, we're only allowed to call them Marines?? No matter, means the same...

Jermanator

zorba wrote: »

I don't understand everything I read in that article.

I hope I misread this part...

We just didn’t have any good substitutes for seaman

Varmintmist

Jermanator wrote: »

I hope I misread this part...

That statement happened right after the Navy let women on ships........

tennmike

Varmintmist wrote: »

That statement happened right after the Navy let women on ships........

When they opened up the ratings to women after Vietnam they fast tracked them with all kinds of bonus points and rapid advancement. That's why it took me two shots to get to E-4 and I was looking at 10 more years to get to E-5 because the wimmins were given special treatment and NO SEA DUTY. Best reason ever to get out, and I wasn't alone in that. The unintended consequences of that decision by the Navy put them between a rock and a hard place regarding several ratings short of people because no one would stay in and put up with the lack of advancement opportunity.