"It seemed that way too many sailors would get their panties in a bunch if they were called that at all, for any reason," said user Chico119. In Reddit’s r/navy subreddit, one former sailor asked if the Navy finally got over "shipmate" having the negative connotation of "hey idiot". "I am always trying to steal the word ‘shipmate’ back because it has been used in the wrong context and at the wrong time," he said. In the Internet’s slang bible Urban Dictionary, "shipmate" has been seen as a slur for at least 17 years.Ī 2005 entry calls it a derogatory term for someone of low rank and used when correcting a mistake: "Give me your f**king liberty card shipmate!"Ĭommand Master Chief Tony Perryman, of USS Harry S Truman, said in a 2015 article in Navy Times he wanted to reclaim the word that makes sailors cringe. Inside the Navy, the use of "shipmates" has been a long-running tug-of-war between those service members who find it "patronising" and those that want to reclaim it as "endearing". “Unfortunately, like most dramatic notions, these are largely fictional.” “Like most nautical jargon, the aphorism has a certain graceful ring to it that captures the Navy’s mission-first mentality in very few words,” he wrote in 2018.
Jimmy Drennan, vice president of the think tank Center for International Maritime Security, has argued it is an outdated framework that needs to be reframed as three "all equally important, interrelated elements". The doctrine of "ship, shipmates, self" has also come under scrutiny. “By the way, I don’t use Facebook and never have,” Mr Hofstadter wrote in an email.
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