Navy changes uniform insignia due to sailors feeling "uncomfortable"

[aomagrat]

The policy change for making black tabs standard comes two years after the Navy first allowed sailors to volunteer to wear the more high-contrast version following complaints that the camouflage version left uncomfortably long stares at each other's chests in an effort to discern a shipmates' paygrade.

 

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/10/18/navy-rank-insignia-scare-leads-sky-high-markups-and-scalping.html?ESRC=eb_221019.nl

 

[gwalchmai]

What's gonna happen when the chief has to tell a young sailor that he has to stay behind in the flooding compartment because the door can only be dogged from the inside? Yeah, I assumed the swabbie's gender. I can also confidently assume his race. And the chief, of course, is a black lesbian communist. 

[jmohme]

Any soldier that feels "uncomfortable" about their uniforms or any insignia on it, should be shown the door out of the armed forces into the girls scouts recruiting office.

But that's just my opinion. I am just getting sick of this ****!