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More sailors undergoing a forced rating conversion can now separate early 5 hours ago Sailors heave in line as the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer Mitscher prepares to depart Souda Bay, Greece, March 24. (MC2 Kaleb Sarten/Navy) More active duty sailors who are being forced to switch ratings now qualify for early separation, should they decide to leave the active Navy. Previously, only sailors with up to 12 months before the soft expiration of their active obligated service qualified to separate. But now, sailors 36 months out from the end of their contractual obligations ar...