In the year 2011, after 20 years of its implementation, a debate arose that India should not only Look East but also Act East. But later on, under prime minister Atal Bihar Vajpayee, it became strategic as well. Initially, the focus of the Look East Policy was on the economic domain to attract more investment and technology from East Asia countries. Thus, the North Eastern part of India became indispensable as this region can make inroads into the South East Asian countries. Narasimha Rao in the year 1991, mooted the "Look East Policy" to build a better relationship with South East Asia countries. Therefore, it was during the time Prime Minister P.V. Not only did it neglect the North Eastern part of its territory but it also paid no heed to South East Asian countries. Soon after India got liberated from British domination, the newly independent India paid no attention to the North Eastern part of India. Pilot writer Courtney Mabeus contributed to this report.India's Act East Policy and its Influence on North Eastern Region “I’m glad that leadership listened to the sailors and, you know, took it to heart and reversed course on it,” Weeks said. He said he learned about the change from a friend on active duty and didn’t believe it until he saw Richardson’s confirmation of the reversal Tuesday on social media. “It was a source of sailors’ identity and everyone thought they kind of lost some of that when they talked about taking that away,” Weeks said late Tuesday. Though the White House in its response stood behind the ratings drop, Weeks said he was happy that the petition helped spur visibility for sailors who were upset over the move. The petition garnered more than 100,000 signatures within 30 days, prompting the Obama administration to respond. Within hours of Richardson’s announcement in September, Dave Weeks, a retired petty officer first class who served as an operations specialist in the Navy, created an online White House petition. Some sailors complained on social media and in online comments on news stories that they felt the change stripped them of a part of their Navy heritage and also made it more difficult to clearly identify the correct sailor on ships with thousands aboard, such as aircraft carriers. Recommendations to change the title included “administrative specialist” so it would make it easier for civilian employers to understand a sailor’s resume.įollowing the elimination of ratings, sailors were told to simply refer to each other by rank. Few people outside the Navy know what a yeoman does. For example, a yeoman who is a petty officer second class would be called “YN2.” It’s unclear how adding a second or third rating will fit into what a sailor is called.Ī yeoman is one of the prime examples of rating names the Navy was looking to change when it embarked on a review of them earlier this year. Traditionally, enlisted sailors were known by a combination of letters and numbers that referred to their ratings and ranks. The Navy has about 90 ratings, largely unchanged since 1947. In the lead-up to the elimination of ratings, officials repeatedly noted that ratings had changed or been eliminated more than 750 times over the years. The change was a major cultural shift in a tradition-bound service that had used ratings for 241 years, and Navy officials acknowledge they underestimated the fierce opposition they’d face. Hospital corpsmen were to be called “medical technicians,” for example. The Navy eliminated the use of ratings such as “hospital corpsman” in September and started referring to sailors solely by their ranks – petty officer second class, for example – as part of an effort to provide greater flexibility in enlisted sailors’ careers and to come up with job titles that more clearly align with what they would be called outside the military. E-Pilot Evening Edition Home Page Close Menuįollowing months of criticism from active-duty service members and veterans, the Navy has reinstated job titles known as ratings that had been used for centuries to help identify enlisted sailors’ roles.
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