The US Navy is completely overhauling its complex ratings system
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The Navy is jettisoning its complex ratings system to make sailors' jobs more understandable and allow them to more easily transfer occupations.
The move, which allows sailors to be addressed by rank, such as seaman, petty officer and chief, aligns the service for the first time with the other three military branches, which address troops by rank instead of job specialty.
"I've never heard of a Marine who introduced himself as 'Infantry Corporal Smith,' " Cmdr. Читать дальше...
