US Navy changes enlisted ratings

[Simon_Jester]

Again, if PC were the only issue, they'd just replace the word "man" with "crew" everywhere or something. It'd sound vaguely stupid until everyone got used to it, but whatever. If they actually cared about being inclusive of women, and that was all they cared about, this would have been a much simpler policy change.

[RogueIce]

UPDATE: In a shocking display of sense, the Navy is backtracking on their plan to scrap the Ratings

The Navy has decided to bring back its 241-year-old job ratings system, officials said Tuesday, reversing a decision at the end of September that prompted widespread outcry and even had the White House weigh in.

A formal announcement is set for Wednesday at 8 a.m. East Coast time.

The restoration of Navy rating titles will be announced in a Navy administrative message signed by Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson.

The service still plans to modernize jobs in order to make career paths more flexible and make it easier to transition to civilian work. But the initial plan that replaced all 91 historical ratings, including jobs like yeoman, boatswain's mate, and hospital corpsman, with alphanumeric codes, has been scrapped.