The inside story of how the Navy's top brass eliminated ratings
By A Mystery Man Writer
Description
A MCPON on his way out, a SECNAV who wants to gender-neutralize rating titles, and a working group of about a dozen holed away in a Pentagon office. Here’s how the decision to eliminate rating titles was made.
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