The U.S. Navy is sailing into politically correct waters, sometimes at a speed too fast for the Obama administration to keep up.Whether it is policies on gays and women, or naming ships after social activists, the Navy is charting a course that has some “old salts” worried.
“It’s pretty dire,” said John Howland, a 1964 U.S. Naval Academy graduate who manages a web site on naval issues called USNA-At-Large.
“We’re back to ‘H.M.S. Pinafore,’ ” he added, a reference to the comic opera about English shipboard life. “The leadership of the military is pretty much politically correct kind of stuff. You like to think that we’re approaching hitting bottom, but these people are not through with us yet.” ...