{"id":105644,"date":"2020-09-28T18:49:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T22:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=105644"},"modified":"2020-09-28T18:49:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T22:49:40","slug":"us-navy-seals-making-efforts-to-be-gender-neutral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=105644","title":{"rendered":"US Navy SEALs Making Efforts to be Gender-Neutral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/seals_brotherhood.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-105645 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/seals_brotherhood-500x283.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/seals_brotherhood-500x283.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/seals_brotherhood-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/seals_brotherhood-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/seals_brotherhood.jpg 1535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The website <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmilitarynews.com\/2020\/09\/navy-seals-change-official-ethos-to-be-gender-neutral-remove-brotherhood-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AmericanMilitaryNews<\/a> reports that the Navy SEALs are making efforts to be gender-neutral with some of the branding and words used.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"singlePostTitle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/americanmilitarynews.com\/2020\/09\/navy-seals-change-official-ethos-to-be-gender-neutral-remove-brotherhood-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Navy SEALs change official ethos to be gender neutral, remove \u2018brotherhood\u2019 and more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-breakable=\"true\">The U.S. Navy SEALs and the Navy Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen (SWCC) recently changed their ethos and creed statements to reflect a gender-neutral presentation of the elite Navy outfits, doing away with gendered terms like \u201cbrotherhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-breakable=\"true\">One change to the SEAL ethos was to alter a sentence in the first paragraph of the ethos to say, \u201cCommon citizens with uncommon desire to succeed\u201d instead of the original, \u201cA common man with uncommon desire to succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-breakable=\"true\">Naval Special Warfare spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Stroup confirmed the changes to the ethos and creed statements in an emailed statement to American Military News.<\/p>\n<p data-breakable=\"true\">\u201cNaval Special Warfare continues to deliberately develop a culture of tactical and ethical excellence that reflects the nation we represent, and that draws upon the talents of the all-volunteer force who meet the standards of qualification as a SEAL or SWCC,\u201d Stroup said.<\/p>\n<p data-breakable=\"true\">Stroup said the changes to the ethos and creed statements were made to comply with changes in law opening the potential for women to join the elite military units.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-breakable=\"true\">Much of the language was written before laws having to do with women were inacted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The website AmericanMilitaryNews reports that the Navy SEALs are making efforts to be gender-neutral with some &hellip; <a title=\"US Navy SEALs Making Efforts to be Gender-Neutral\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=105644\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US Navy SEALs Making Efforts to be Gender-Neutral<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":105645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-navy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105646,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105644\/revisions\/105646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}