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Veteran Listener Speaks with Matt About Gender Neutrality Push in the Navy

Matt Christiansen Live

Matt Christiansen

News, News:news Commentary, News Commentary, Politics

4.8587 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Matt speaks with Naval veteran Steven Wiggin about the recent push to overhaul titles and ranks in the Navy with gender-neutral terms.  Steven provided the following links for reference: The inside story of how the Navy's top brass eliminated ratings: http://bit.ly/2jniwoL  Navy Announces Enlisted Rating Modernization Plan: http://bit.ly/2jngfd4    Outro music "Odahviing" written and performed by A.E.N.E.A.S. http://www.iamaeneas.bandcamp.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to your sanity safe space with your favorite YouTube podcast duo.

0:09.0

Or at least one of them, it kinda depends.

0:12.0

And probably some rando too.

0:14.0

But no complaining, cause this is free.

0:17.0

Free!

0:19.0

This is Beauty and the beta bonus audio content.

0:28.6

Hello and welcome to the show. I recently received an email from listener Stephen Wigan, a six-year naval veteran,

0:38.9

asking to speak with me about the recent and swift push to apply gender-neutral terms and

0:45.1

titles within the Navy.

0:47.2

I've linked a pair of articles in the description that he sent to me.

0:50.2

You can use them for your reference if you'd like to look into the issue.

0:53.5

Thanks to Stephen both for his service and for listening to the show. And I hope you, dear listener,

0:59.5

will appreciate his thoughts. Thanks for listening and enjoy. Hello, and welcome to some

1:05.9

extra content. I'm here with listener Stephen Wiggin, who is a veteran of six years of naval service, worked on a Trident Missile Submarine.

1:16.4

And we are going to discuss the creeping advance of political correctness into the American military, specifically the Navy and the move to, quote, modernize the rating titles of all sailors to use gender

1:31.8

neutral terms. So Stephen, uh, thank you for serving. Thank you for listening. Welcome to the show.

1:38.4

And my first question is, did I say anything incorrectly in introducing that? You have not. No.

1:44.3

Excellent. Yeah. Excellent.

1:45.0

Yeah.

1:45.8

Right on.

1:47.2

Let me, uh, let me start with this.

1:48.8

I'd just like to familiarize myself and the audience with the nature of your career and

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