Hello shipmates!
As you may be aware the SECNAV has ordered the removal of all of then 91 enlisted ratings titles. This means that sailors will no longer be identified by their job title, say, Aviation Ordnanceman 1st Class Joe Sailor, effective immediately. Instead, that would be Petty Officer 1st Class Joe Sailor.
Sailors past and present have longstanding and deep love of the titles that have defined their Navy lives. All of these now belong to the history books, but you can do something to help possibly change that.
Follow this link to sign a White House petition that asks the President to restore or at least comment on this horrible plan: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/restore-traditional-navy-rating-specialty-titles-disestablished-9292016
Please share this with every sailor you know and help push the petition 100,000 votes before October 31st 2016.
Links to articles about the new rule from SECNAV:
- https://www.navytimes.com/articles/navy-scuttles-sailors-enlisted-rating-titles-in-huge-career-shake-up
- https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/articles/secnav-defends-removing-navy-job-titles-including-corpsman
- https://news.usni.org/2016/09/29/navy-eliminating-241-year-old-rating-system-new-enlisted-rank-overhaul
- https://www.navytimes.com/articles/the-inside-story-of-how-the-navys-top-brass-eliminated-ratings
And finally I think personally think this plan would have been much better in the long run: https://www.navytimes.com/articles/the-navy-had-a-plan-to-change-rating-titles-heres-what-might-have-been
Thanks for taking the time to read this, share this, and for signing the petition.
GO NAVY!!
Aviation Ordnanceman Third Class Chad Derrington