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Plankowner
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Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: Old, Obscure and Obsolete U.S. Navy Jobs
https://news.usni.org/2014/12/03/brief-list-old-obscure-obsolete-u-s-navy-jobs
U.S. Navy enlisted personnel—unlike those in the other services—wear their jobs on their sleeves. A Marine machine-gunner wears similar collar rank as the rest of his fire team; unless you ask him, or see his military occupation in his file, one could never know his job specifics just by looking at his uniform.
Not so in the Navy.
The Navy’s complicated enlisted system is based on a sailor’s occupation, or rating. Those range from the enduring—quartermaster, yeoman, boatswain’s mate or hospital corpsman—to the more obscure—religious programs specialist, interior communications electrician or legalman.
Each job has its own unique title—such as Boatswain’s Mate 2nd Class Jones—and an insignia denoting the rating included on his or her uniform.
What makes the system so confusing is the constant creation of new jobs, the merging of jobs or eliminating them entirely as the service requires.
For example, in the last several years the Navy has created ratings for unmanned vehicle operators and cyber-warfare technicians while losing or merging jobs such as patternmaker and boiler technician.
The following is a collection of former Navy ratings (and one defunct officer rank) made mostly obsolete by advances in technology and occasionally by more modern stances on race, gender, and—at least in one case—child-labor norms.
Full story at link above.
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1890
Location: Patterson, New York | Subject: RE: Old, Obscure and Obsolete U.S. Navy Jobs
Very interesting. The Stewards on the boats I was on in the early 1970's were all Filipino, non citizens, and restricted to the ward room mess decks, and officer quarters.
A rate that was discontinued by the time I entered the Polaris program was Nuclear Weapons Technician. These guys worked on the tender handling the warheads and wore the Gunner Mate badge. They were GM(T)'s.
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1814
Location: Boydton, Virginia | Subject: RE: Old, Obscure and Obsolete U.S. Navy Jobs
Most every job I ever had in my 50 year working career has either been eliminated or become so high-tech that I could never go back. In the Navy I was a torpedoman working mostly on WWII Mk 14 torpedos (now there are no Tm's on boats). Then I worked for Michigan Bell as installer-repairman, when all we had to worry about is 2 wires: tip and ring( now phones belong to the customer and phone co. employees are concerned about fiber-optic, multi conductors with high-tech devises.Then I worked for General Motors painting new busses( now it is done by robots). Then I worked as a Wildlife Biologist when all I had to worry about is game species, (now they must care for all of God's creatures). The world is definitely becoming more complicated!!
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Old, Obscure and Obsolete U.S. Navy Jobs
