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ANNAPOLIS, Md. \u2014 Huge changes are coming to the way the <\/span>sailors and officers pursue navigate<\/span> their careers, meet fitness standards and conduct their daily lives, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus announced in a speech Wednesday at the Naval Academy<\/span> in Annapolis<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus announced a host of radical changes during a speech to midshipmen here Wednesday, including to <\/span>the way sailors are The Navy will undertake more than a dozen new <\/span>initiatives that will change the way it <\/span>advanced and promoted, from<\/span> ending general military training, and <\/span>expanding career flexibility, to <\/span>easing body fat standards, and offering sure-to-be-popular moves like 24-hour gyms and expandeding<\/span> child-care hours. , measures sailors’ health and creates educational and professional opportunities, Mabus said, rolling them out over the next few years.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First up: The end of general military training via Navy Knowledge Online, starting June 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Command triads will determine if and when training is needed,” Mabus said. “And to make relevant training more accessible and efficient, I’ve asked the chief of naval personnel and the Office of Naval Research to develop mobile applications for fleet release in fiscal year 2016.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That doesn’t include legally mandated training, like sexual assault prevention, that commands do in-person, but it does get rid of the check-the-block online modules sailors so <\/span>detest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“You may hear sea-stories of mundane, arduous, and seemingly pointless GMT, but you won’t experience it,” Mabus told the thousands of e Brigade of <\/span>midshipmen in the speech Wednesday<\/span>, a week before graduation<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And after years of complaints from sailors, the Navy will “completely revamp” the body composition assessment, starting with the tape test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Our pass fail\/system that only \u2014 and sometimes inaccurately \u2014 assesses one aspect of physical fitness is going to end,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The service is looking at the Air Force model, which tapes only the waist instead of the waist and neck. And on top of that, Mabus said, a BCA failure will no longer mean an overall physical fitness assessment failure, because sailors will still be able to take their physical readiness tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In the Navy alone, last year, we separated 1,500 people \u2014 1,500 sailors for failing the PFA,” he said. “That wastes everybody’s time and resources. That’s more than we separated for drug use, for example.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New PT standards<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To enforce a year-round culture of fitness, commanding officers will also be able to do random spot checks in between PFA tests. These won’t be punitive, but if a <\/span>sailors fails<\/span> BCA or PRT between tests, their commands can work with them to get them back in shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And for those who surpass standards, there will be a fitness patch to be worn on the outside of the new Navy PT suit, which comes out next year. And for t<\/span>Those who max out their PRT three cycles in a row, Mabus added, will be eligible for a the <\/span>new Outstanding Fitness Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leadership has not yet decided whether it will be a ribbon or a <\/span>medal, but it will be worn on dress uniforms, a senior Navy official confirmed to Navy Times on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The discussion of physical standards continued after the speech, when midshipmen approached microphones to personally <\/span>ask Mabus questions of Mabus<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One mid asked whether the Navy Department’s planned opening of remaining billets still closed to women \u2014 including Marine and Navy special warfare, and Marine infantry, etc.<\/span> \u2014 would mean that physical standards will be lowered to accommodate them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“My notion is, you set up gender-neutral standards. If you pass, you pass,” Mabus repliedhe said<\/span>. “Eighty percent of men can’t pass [SEAL training]. Keep the standards. Do not lower standards in any regard.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mid also asked wh allowed to serve in ground combat billets, but Mabus did not specifically answer.ether women might be added to the draft, if they’ll be<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“And since I don’t see the draft coming back any time soon, I’m just going to tell you, I don’t have any idea of what that would be,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expanding opportunities<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the long list of initiatives Mabus is pushing, many deal with career and professional management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plan is to do away with year-groups for officers, the hard and fast system by which officers are pushed from tour to tour and that <\/span>ranked s<\/span>them <\/span>against each other. The new system will focusing<\/span> more on milestones, which would allow officers not ready for promotion to spend a few more years at in<\/span> their ranks, and fast track promotions for those who are readyon the fast track<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly, Mabus signaled a huge change for enlisted advancements. The Command Advancement Program, where commanding officers can spot promote their best sailors, will be retooled into the Meritorious Advancement Program and greatly expanded, including to sailors on shore duty, a long-standing request for many sailors. will replace for enlisted sailors, allowing commanding officers to advance their best sailors. The program will extend to shore duty, as well.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the flip side, Mabus said, COscommanding officers<\/span> will also have more leeway to separate sailors whom they feel aren’t making the cut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“You’ll have more control over who you advance or who you separate without being subjected to a really cumbersome separation process,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And for those looking to round out their resumes, the Navy is expanding the Career Intermission Program tenfold \u2014 from 40 to 400 billets \u2014 in which sailors will be able , where sailors can<\/span> to take up to three years off. It is also for all sailors, while <\/span>opening up graduate education and industry internship options for officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are plans to add 30 more spots for in-residence graduate education this year. And starting this fall, Mabus said, the Navy will send its best qualified officers for internships at Fortune 500 companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“When these officers return to the fleet, they’ll bring industry’s best practices with them,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the economy improving, the Navy is looking at ways to retain its best talent, particularly where women are concerned, because they leave the service at twice the rate of men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many women say they don’t feel the Navy is conducive to raising a family, a senior Navy official told Navy Times on Tuesday, and so they get out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To ease the burden, the Navy also plans to double maternity leave from six weeks to 12 weeks for new mothers and expand on-base child-care hours for parents in general<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, an updated co-location policy will allow dual military couples to be assigned to the same area while taking into account key billets that will equally benefit their careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roll-out for these initiatives will take place as early as this year, spreading into 2017 for year-group changes and 2017 for new fitness policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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