Posted on 07/25/2017 7:13:03 AM PDT by Trump20162020
Amid all its upgrades and advances, the US Navy's newest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, is lacking one feature: urinals.
Every bathroom on the Ford is, for the first time, gender-neutral, equipped with flush toilets and stalls, according to Navy Times.
Bathroom-design experts have said sit-down toilets are less sanitary and take up more space, and most of the Ford's crew members are men. (Women are only about 18% of the Navy.)
But the Navy has said getting rid of urinals has advantages for current and future operations.
Making every bathroom accessible to all of the ship's sailors will make things more convenient for sailors, the Navy has said. And bathrooms that can be used by either gender mean the Navy can reassign them without making any design changes, should the crew's makeup change.
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Did what his "sweet" mother couldn't do in 21 years.
Easy fix. Just bring back the poop deck.
Bingo, my first thought, though late to the thread.
Submarines have no latrines
The men wear leather britches.
They hang their tails out o’r the rails
And yell like sons a’ britches.
Just make sure the wind is at your back.......................
“So what? Are urinals that vital to our nation’s defense that a ship can’t function without them?”
It is a great blessing to watchstanders to have a urinal near the bridge.
Betcha the women howl about piss on the toilet seats until certain stalls, or even certain heads, are reserved for women.
Some years back, when they started to put women on ships and shifted into overdrive with all this PC bullcrap, a navy pilot once said, “They’re not going to be happy until they make us all pee sitting down!”
Once again, the 99.999% have to bow to the .001%.
The Engineers have hairy ears,
They go without their britches,
They pop their c*cks with jagged rocks,
They're hardy sons of b*tches.
They screw the whores right through their drawers,
They do not care for trifles --
They hang their b*lls upon the walls
And shoot at them with rifles.
Much joy they reap by diddling sheep
In divers nooks and ditches;
Nor give they a damn if they be rams --
They're hardy sons of b*tches.
As Eastwood’s character Dirty Harry said in the Enforcer: what do you think this is some kind of encounter group. Well, we now have an answer, it is, but not an encounter group for the enemy.
Did what his "sweet" mother couldn't do in 21 years. "
Well, you do have some inducements that only you can use to reward or punish, eh?
Did you ever make little paper boats, light them on fire and launch them upstream of your shipmates?
As a Navy vet I just have no words.
I’m just glad I was able to serve my sea time on an all male combat ship right before woman were forced on. Women being forced onto combat ships has contributed mightily to the neutering of the US Navy.
ditto
This has been on the works a long time.
The USS Ranger (CV-61) had a urinal on the flight deck, hanging on the side of the island. A sign over it read, “DO NOT USE IN PORT.”
A friend worked in the engine room on a 70s missile cruiser off of Vietnam. Fresh water was at a premium but as an engine room guy they had dibs on fresh hot water and would shower In The engine room (or vicinity), at the end of their shift.....even when it was restricted to the rest of the crew.
That reminds me. My wife’s nephew is a nuclear engineer and a newly minted ensign on a sub somewhere. Next time I see him I’ll ask him the current state of ‘turlits’.
This is a government problem in search of a government
solution. Obviously the urinals need to be redesigned
at horrendous cost to be usable by both sexes.
I guess they just couldn’t use rocket tubes like in
Vietnam.
The side and fantail of a ship make a pretty good relief station...for men.
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