Seeing as how very few of the navy ships actually work, how about they start calling them longshoremen or stevedores.

"Options for consideration include:

Replacing “Seaman” with “Sailor” meaning ranks would be Ordinary Sailor, Able Sailor, Leading Sailor and Master Sailor and would maintain their current abbreviated titles (OS, AB, LS and MS); and
Sailor classes such as Sailor 3rd Class (S3), Sailor 2nd Class (S2), Sailor 1st Class (S1) and Master Sailor (MS)."

I'm getting real sick of this shit.

No they're not. They just don't want to admit that it causes too many discipline problems to have all these 20 year old sailors referring to eachother as seamen.

Sailor is gay

Seaman is funny

Stick with seaman.