Here's the new message. As dumb as the original policy was, it's always nice to see a large organization quickly reverse course when it becomes clear they were wrong. Doesn't happen very often.


http://www.public.navy.mil/...NAV2016/NAV16283.txt

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Slowguy

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Agree, its nice to see an organization have the humility to say "never mind" without a flame/blame war or a public execution of person (or some poor underling), to explain the "mistake".

My son is publicly celebrating this reversal, he has a unique rating as he was in the first class of new ITS's.

But were Hillary coming in, would it have happened? The reversal.

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Yeah, I don't think this is a Trump v Clinton issue. I think this is just a result of lots of negative feedback from basically everyone. Even the USCG said they wouldn't be following the Navy's lead.

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Would the Brown Water Navy even have that discretion? I believe they get consolidated into the Navy during time of war, no?

I'm a Navy veteran and glad this idiocy was overturned.

No. USCG is its own thing, and part of Homeland Security. They can run themselves how they want, and don't have to do what the Navy does. It could be transferred to the Dept of the Navy by Congress during war, or, I think, by the President really anytime, if he really wanted. But I'm not aware of anything that would make that automatic.

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Thank you. I had a feeling things were going to change when CNO made the comment last week that they did not realize how the fleet would react to it.

I work on the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth compound and I can tell you that every enlisted was very excited today, every Corpsmen I greeted by their correct rate from HN to HMC had the biggest smile on their face. I also ran into a MRCS friend of mine, I will be his guest speaker when he retires next month was literally jumping for joy when I saw him this morning..

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Glad they stopped that dumb ass idea
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