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[Jeff Head]

CNO Richardson just announced the USN sailors are going to go back to being called by their ratings, Navy Sec Mabus took away their rates in order to make job titles more "gender neutral", stoopid politically correct KRAP!

They will be officially restored at 08:00 12/21/16

I am SO SICK of this PC KRAP! Sailors work hard for those ratings, guys and girls alike were P O ed. they were ticked and rightly so, most sailors had been ignoring those orders anyway, of course the brass had to play by the rules, but the sailors said
"NO WAY"! CNO Richardson acknowledged they had made a mistake!

Glad to see this.

Perhaps it will be the first of several such reversals.

 

[Jura The idiot]

as you can see
Nov 20, 2016

Thursday at 12:46 PM

Oct 29, 2016

and now White House to Petitioners: Navy Can Ditch Ratings System

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while The Navy took away sailors' job titles, and now no one knows what to call each other
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I've been following this Political Correctness in action ... now
Navy to Restore Enlisted Rating Titles After Months of Criticism

The Navy is performing a brisk about-face on a controversial plan that shelved ratings titles for enlisted sailors, according to a message Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson that was set for release on Wednesday morning but was leaked on social media on Tuesday night.

The NAVADMIN message cancels a

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decision in which service leadership announced it would no longer address sailors by their rating – a more than 200-year-old tradition in which enlisted were known by their job title – and instead refer to enlisted sailors with the generic titles of Seaman (E-1 to E-3) or Petty Officer (E-4 to E-6).

The unpopular title change was the most visible part of an enlisted rank modernization effort spearheaded by former Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Michael D. Stevens.

In the message, Richardson said Navy leadership had heard the criticism.

“We have learned from you, and so effective immediately, all rating names are restored,” Richardson wrote in the message.
“The feedback from current and former sailors has been consistent that there is wide support for the flexibility that the plan offers, but the removal of rating titles detracted from accomplishing our major goals.”

Richardson had signaled leadership was considering reverting back to the old rating naming system earlier this month after talking to thousands of sailors.

“I underestimated how fiercely loyal people were to their rating,” Richardson said on Dec. 6 during an all hands call,

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reported.
“I’ve gotten a fair amount of feedback on that.”

The look at the revamp for the enlisted system was born from Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus’ push to create gender-neutral terms for the Navy and the Marine Corps, leadership said in September. Instead of tweaking rating titles like Damage Controlman or Hospital Corpsman, the Navy instead moved to refer to junior enlisted sailors by a generic title and adopt a series of Navy Occupational Specialty codes. The NOS codes are similar to the Military Occupational Specialty used by the Army and Marines and the Air Force Specialty Codes system.

“Our goals for modernizing the enlisted career development program – rating modernization – are to provide greater choice and flexibility for our sailors with respect to detailing and training, to provide greater flexibility for the Navy in assigning highly trained personnel, and to increase professional alignment with civilian employers,” Richardson wrote.
“We strongly believe that providing this flexibility will make us a more capable Navy.”

The reintroduction of ratings is by no mean the end of how the Navy will continue to reshape enlisted career paths or planned changes to titles in the service, Richardson said in the message.

“This course correction doesn’t mean our work is done – rating modernization will continue for all the right reasons. Modernizing our industrial-age personnel system in order to provide sailors choice and flexibility still remains a priority for us,” Richardson wrote.
“As we execute the rating modernization plan, more sailors will have multiple occupational skill sets or ratings. We will need to tackle the issue of managing rating names. We will continue to involve sailors throughout the fleet.”

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[Jura The idiot]

Dec 3, 2016

...
Once In Intelligence, Always In Intelligence
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(if you want, search google with
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and you may find for example
Michael Flynn & Russia: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

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so I'm not exactly surprised by "some reservations in French military circles" I quoted above ... something which is obviously important in
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Who are Trump’s generals? Earlier this week,

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that shaped as a group and then profiled

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, the prospective Secretary of Defense. Today, Kitfield tackles Trump’s most controversial general, intelligence officer turned political firebrand Michael Flynn.

“Know your enemy and know yourself, and you will not be defeated in 100 battles.” But what if you try to understand your enemy and he’s as firm a believer in his skewed moral universe as you are in yours?

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faced as director of intelligence for

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Command and the International Security Assistance Force in

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. Flynn spent countless hours interrogating senior commanders for Al Qaeda, the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Iraq, which would later morph into

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. He could understand their hatred of American soldiers, but Flynn was perplexed by the fact that the vast majority of their tens of thousands of victims were fellow Muslims.

During the course of those interrogations in both Iraq and Afghanistan, Flynn concluded that what united the terrorist warlords was a common ideology, specifically the extremist Salafi jihadist ideology that rejects any separation of church and state in favor of puritanical interpretation of Islamic Sharia law. These Sunni jihadists are intolerant of other religions or sects, and violent by the very nature of their cause of waging “holy war.”

“Over the course of all those interrogations, I concluded that ‘core Al Qaeda’ wasn’t actually comprised of human beings, but rather it was an ideology with a particular version of Islam at its center,” Flynn told me in September. In a way, the human beings who make up al Qaeda are just the hosts for the real threat: a nihilistic ideology with a fundamentalist, religious totalitarianism at its center.

“More than a religion, this ideology encompasses a political belief system, because its adherents want to rule things—whether it’s a village, a city, a region or an entire ‘caliphate,’” Flynn said. “And to achieve that goal, they are willing to use extreme violence. The religious nature of that threat makes it very hard for Americans to come to grips with.”

At the DIA, Flynn’s perception of the growing threat posed by Islamist extremists put him at odds with the triumphalist narrative coming out of the

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. With the death of Osama bin Laden and many of his top lieutenants in 2011, the Obama administration argued that Al Qaeda “core” was “decimated,” and the threat from terrorism rapidly diminishing. In 2012, the National Intelligence Council had even crafted a draft National Intelligence Estimate — a document supposed to represent the consensus view of the US intelligence community — which reportedly concluded that Al Qaeda was no longer a threat to the United States.

Flynn and a number of other senior intelligence officials had successfully pushed back hard against that conclusion as premature. Flynn had DIA analysts distill that intelligence into a PowerPoint slide that showed that the number of radical Islamist terrorist groups had nearly doubled between 2004 and 2013, and that they occupied a far larger global footprint than before the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Flynn believes that his disagreement with the White House over the nature of the terrorist threat is a major reason he was forced out a year early as head of the DIA. “The intelligence I saw as director of the DIA made it very clear that Al Qaeda and its affiliates were not on the run, but were in fact rapidly expanding,” Flynn said in our recent interview. “The number of terrorist attacks were on the rise, and Iraq was starting to burn again. So that was Obama’s big lie: that the enemy was on the run, and we were beating these guys.”

Controversy

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as National Security Adviser, Flynn has been criticized for previously accepting a paid speaking engagement in Moscow from a Russian propaganda organization. He’s also made tweets and public comments that seem to denigrate the entire religion of Islam, rather than the Salafi jihadist strain that seeks to impose its fundamentalist worldview by force. More recently he has gotten into trouble for tweets that passed along “fake news” and conspiracy theories.

Only time will tell if these reflect a flaw in Flynn’s judgment, or merely the initial missteps of a senior officer who spent decades in the shadows of the intelligence world and is still adjusting to life in the national spotlight at the side of tweeter-in-chief Donald Trump. In our interview, Flynn told me that the trip to Moscow was arranged by his speaking bureau and he sees no problem with it. He has numerous Muslim friends who acted as his interpreters in war zones, he noted, and he understands the threat comes from an extremist minority.

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, Flynn wrote of the global terrorist threat that “we’re in a world war, but very few Americans recognize it, and fewer still have any idea how to win it.” Now that he is poised to serve as president-elect Donald Trump’s national security advisor, Flynn’s view of that global threat is likely to translate into a more aggressive campaign against the networks of Islamist extremists groups with ISIS and Al Qaeda at their center.

Almost to a man, Flynn and the other generals in Trump’s constellation believe President Obama made a mistake in pulling all US troops out of Iraq in 2011. They are likely to advocate for a sustained US troop presence in Iraq even after ISIS loses territory, and in

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where the Taliban and Al Qaeda have made a recent comeback. Like Mattis, Flynn said he would not support a return to “enhanced interrogation techniques” such as waterboarding — except possibly in extreme cases where the nation was threatened by an imminent terrorist attack involving weapons of mass destruction.

Flynn supports a closer US alignment with strongmen such as Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and

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in the fight against Islamist extremist groups. He also believes the rules of engagement for US forces fighting ISIS should be relaxed.

“Not long ago US pilots spotted an ISIS convoy of some 120 vehicles leaving Mosul, but they weren’t allowed to destroy it because of the potential for ‘collateral damage’ to civilians,” said Flynn. (The haunting question is how much “collateral damage” the terrorists lived to do to local civilians after their escape). “Well, this is war, and there’s always a potential for collateral damage in war. You either have to accept that and try and win it, or engage in an

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. So I’m definitely tired of some of these constraints.”

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Dec 3, 2016
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No doubt Mike Flynn knows what he's talking about, when there is a power vacuum?? and Obama is a power vacuum??? NOBAMA--good news for everyone!

Mike Flynn is not Politically Correct, but he realizes there is a radicalized faction within Islam that will never be "satiated" until "WE" are all dead or submit!

We are all going to have to make that number 1 reprehensible! and number 2 extinct!

It very dangerous for Muslim Brothers who are not radicalized to speak out??? So the solution is for all of us to route it out, and exterminate that radicalized faction???

Just watch old Jihadi John's video's if you don't believe Mike Flynn??? I can't fathom the HATE that drives a man to that breadth of Evil! its horrible

 

[Air Force Brat]

No doubt Mike Flynn knows what he's talking about, when there is a power vacuum?? and Obama is a power vacuum??? NOBAMA--good news for everyone!

Mike Flynn is not Politically Correct, but he realizes there is a radicalized faction within Islam that will never be "satiated" until "WE" are all dead or submit!

We are all going to have to make that number 1 reprehensible! and number 2 extinct!

It very dangerous for Muslim Brothers who are not radicalized to speak out??? So the solution is for all of us to route it out, and exterminate that radicalized faction???

Just watch old Jihadi John's video's if you don't believe Mike Flynn??? I can't fathom the HATE that drives a man to that breadth of Evil! its horrible

I talked to a young Navy guy's Dad today, only guy in his family who wasn't in the military, nice guy, tough guy, very proud of his son. He's always voted Democrat, not an adventurer militarily, kinda believes we ask for trouble.

He decided to watch Jihadi John, and some other Isis tapes, a young Air Force Special Operator told him NOT to watch those tapes! He said, he had no business telling me not to watch them, so I determined to watch them! then he stated: "You know what??? He was right, they were hard to watch, and now I wish I hadn't, they have changed me in a bad way! and I just can't get that horrific stuff out of my mind, and now I look at people differently, I don't trust anybody from any of those places??

This man was genuinely sorrowful, and wished he had listened to that young special operator. You will no doubt think I'm "wimpy", but I will not watch those tapes, just thinking about it is horrific. The left tells us that these evil men are "victims", they are not, they are hateful, evil, men! the very sad part is that there women are as bad, raising their own babies to be radical killers??? that's in-human??, its murderous, no Godly Father or Mother would ever do that to their children, never, never, never!

 

[Air Force Brat]

as you can see
Nov 20, 2016
I've been following this Political Correctness in action ... now
Navy to Restore Enlisted Rating Titles After Months of Criticism
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On a Happier Note, the USS Wasp is dockside in Norfolk tonight after operations against ISIS in Syria, She had a mid voyage repair and port of call around Cyprus. She will undergo a 55 million dollar upgrade in preparation for deploying to her new home port in Japan. She will host the first foreign deployment of the F-35B, very exciting!

Maybe Jeff or BD can post some Wasp Pictures here?

 

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On a Happier Note, the USS Wasp is dockside in Norfolk tonight after operations against ISIS in Syria,

In Libya also 08 - 09/2016 to Syrte AV-8B and AH-1W possible also Z the new stricking ISIS.

 

[Jura The idiot]

CNO Richardson just announced the USN sailors are going to go back to being called by their ratings, Navy Sec Mabus took away their rates in order to make job titles more "gender neutral", stoopid politically correct KRAP!

They will be officially restored at 08:00 12/21/16

I am SO SICK of this PC KRAP! Sailors work hard for those ratings, guys and girls alike were P O ed. they were ticked and rightly so, most sailors had been ignoring those orders anyway, of course the brass had to play by the rules, but the sailors said
"NO WAY"! CNO Richardson acknowledged they had made a mistake!

according to Military.com Hooyah: Sailors Welcome Navy's Ratings Reversal

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reversed course on its decision to scrap job-oriented enlisted titles, giving an unexpected Christmas gift to tens of thousands of sailors angered by the move to scuttle a centuries-old tradition.

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson, who announced the reversal, cited the strong backlash from sailors against the plan to end the system of job-oriented titles, such as gunner's mate or boatswain's mate.

Sailors were to receive more information Wednesday from Richardson and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Steven Giordano, Navy officials said.

The reaction on social media was almost instantaneous and mostly positive, ranging from "good call," to "leave tradition alone."

Sailors around the fleet joined in the chorus.

"No one was happy about that," Petty Officer 2nd Class Andrew Miller, a machinist's mate aboard the USS Reagan, said of the September decision to eliminate ratings titles.

"I joined up to be a mechanic and I finally got my rating and then they said, ‘You're not a mechanic anymore.' I don't think anyone is going to be unhappy the ratings are back. No chance," Miller said.

Many sailors believed the initial decision to scrap the Navy rating titles was not only getting rid of tradition but didn't work well operationally. Petty Officer 1st Class Gaylon Talley, an information systems technician in Bahrain, said being able to identify someone by their job on a ship makes sense.

"You say you need a damage controlman, you need a fireman, you need an IT," said Talley. "[After scrapping the job titles] you're looking at a number (referring to Navy Occupational speciality codes) and you can't even really remember all of them. Bringing [rating titles] back, you can see everyone is a lot happier, everyone is walking around with smiles on their face."

The news was still making its rounds around Naval Support Activity Bahrain, and Stars and Stripes broke the news to one sailor during an interview. Petty Officer 1st Class German Furuken had a shocked look and struggled for words when he heard about getting rating titles back.

"They are?" Furuken said, who liked the new opportunity to train in another job skill proposed under the rating modernization plan. "Having the title back is good, but I feel like the changes they were going to make is going to take longer, the process is going to be longer, a few years, you know. So I don't know if I'm going to be able to see it while I'm still in the uniform."

The Navy had decided to modernize its rating system -- affecting 265,000 enlisted sailors -- in an effort to align job titles with other services and allow sailors more flexibility to move between job specialities. The drastic change was initiated during a discussion on how to change rating titles to be more gender neutral, a request from Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus.

The backlash was swift, spawning a WhiteHouse.gov petition to get the Navy to reverse its decision, which gathered 103,760 signatures, just more than the 100,000 required for an official response from the executive branch. Military.com had previously reported the original petitioner was Robert D. Weeks, a retired Navy operations specialist. In November, the White House responded to Weeks' petition, saying it supported the Navy's efforts to modernize the ratings system.

Petty Officer 1st Class James Warren, a fire controlman aboard the USS Chancellorsville, said he signed the petition.

"What we know from joining the Navy is your rate is your job and your job defines what you do," Warren said. "The ratings going away threw a wrench in that equation and there was mayhem. I'm glad the ratings are coming back because that's who we are."

Richardson said the Navy leadership heard sailors' unhappiness with the change.

"Since we made the initial rating modernization announcement in September, [Navy leadership] have had the opportunity to speak with thousands of sailors during our travels throughout the fleet. The feedback from current and former sailors has been consistent," he said. "So effective immediately, all rating names are restored."

Richardson admitted getting rid of ratings titles detracted from accomplishing the Navy's major goals with rating modernization, and that sailors pointed out there is a way to modernize the rating system while keeping rating titles.

But ratings modernization won't go by the wayside, according to Richardson. The Navy will work toward changing its personnel system to provide sailors flexibility, including allowing sailors to have multiple occupational skill sets or ratings.

"We will need to tackle the issue of managing rating names," the admiral said. "We will continue to involve sailors throughout the fleet."

Many sailors pointed to the rating modernization changes -- except for the rating titles change -- as being good for sailors' careers by providing more training aligned with the civilian world and career flexibility that isn't as easily available now.

"Give people the opportunity to cross rate if they don't enjoy what they do earlier," said Petty Officer 3rd Class Devin Mcmichael, a Master at Arms detaching from NSA Bahrain, who was also happy to keep his rating. "Because it gives people a better chance to stay in the Navy for a long run, instead of getting their hopes up, not enjoying what they are doing, and then getting out because they aren't pleased with what they do."

For many sailors, there are still a lot of unanswered questions about how rating modernization will work. What changes will it actually bring and how will it affect the advancement exams were common questions.

Richardson asked sailors with ideas on how to modernize the ratings titles to send them to [email protected].

Also at NSA Bahrain, Command Master Chief Rudy Johnson said it was a "win-win" situation for the sailors who were attached to the rating titles.

"I guess my main message for this is, the sailors have a voice. If they speak up ... leadership from the command level all the way up to the CNO is listening," he said. "We may not see every idea that they have as something they can go forth and do, but we are listening."

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[Air Force Brat]

according to Military.com Hooyah: Sailors Welcome Navy's Ratings Reversal

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Go NAVY!

 

[Jura The idiot]

This is a issue for being Commander in Tweet. ...

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The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes

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