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   "Choose your rate, choose your fate." It's a saying every sailor   
   has heard — and as of late September, it's history.   
      
   That's the news as the Navy has eliminated every sailor's rating   
   title in favor of generic rank-specific titles like petty   
   officer 2nd class, a move intended to encourage training across   
   specialties and to help them later transition into the civilian   
   workforce with more skills.   
      
   “We’re going to immediately do away with rating titles and   
   address each other by just our rank as the other services do,”   
   said Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. Robert Burke in a Sept.   
   19 interview. “We recognize that’s going to be a large cultural   
   change, it’s not going to happen overnight, but the direction is   
   to start exercising that now.”   
      
   This began with Navy Secretary Ray Mabus’ mandate in January to   
   eliminate the use of the word “man” from rating titles to make   
   the enlisted service more appealing to women. In June, the   
   Marine Corps — also under the Mabus edict — announced they’d   
   take “man” out of 19 occupational titles. The Navy has gone much   
   further. Their more controversial approach will eliminate the   
   rating title every sailor uses and aims to scrap the existing   
   advancement system and start over.   
      
   https://www.navytimes.com/articles/the-end-of-ratings-whats-next-   
   in-the-navys-radical-enlisted-shake-up   
        
      
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