{"id":69414,"date":"2016-12-15T12:11:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T17:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69414"},"modified":"2016-12-15T12:11:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T17:11:02","slug":"midshipman-will-not-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69414","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Midshipman&#8221; will not change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2016\/12\/10\/navy-midshipman-title-will-not-change.html?ESRC=navy-a_161214.nl\">Military.com<\/a>, the Navy announced that the title &#8220;Midshipman&#8221; will not change along with the rest of rates and ratings in the Navy;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Midshipman&#8221; will not change because it&#8217;s a rank according to U.S. law, Naval Academy Superintendent Vice Admiral Ted Carter said this week. He added that officials only looked at changing the name &#8220;very briefly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Midshipman&#8221; has been used long before the opening of the Naval Academy in 1845. The word originally was used for those who worked or slept in a certain area of the ship, amidships. It later became a term for officers in training.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sailors with less than three years of experience will still be referred to as &#8220;seamen&#8221;, too, I think, or something.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to AW1Ed for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Military.com, the Navy announced that the title &#8220;Midshipman&#8221; will not change along with the rest of rates and ratings in the Navy; &#8220;Midshipman&#8221; will not change because it&#8217;s a rank according to U.S. law, Naval Academy Superintendent Vice Admiral Ted Carter said this week. He added that officials only looked at changing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-i3A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}