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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On the USS California (CGN 36) we had a “urinal” in the middle of a work space in engineering. Not sure if it really was used as purposed, but it did make a great spittoon.
I posted the lyrics to the old cowboy ditty, “Tie My Pecker To A Tree” and an outraged mod read me the Riot act.
That was a few years ago.
Classic!!!!
LOL, big time.
I must have missed the original, so it appears you are overdue for a repeat.
They do indeed make it. Primarily for propulsion. Any excess is for the crew. But I would Not describe it as ‘loads’. Woe be to the sailor found wasting water.
I would imagine a nuke vessel would have much higher capacity to make fresh water than a diesel
Space, as always, is at a premium on a ship or boat. Machinery is sized to fit the space and need, not the other way around. Nuke or diesel, makes no difference.
Had a roomie. For about a year in the 1970s. Tin can sailor and also on a missile cruiser.
When he first moved in he would fill the sink with water to wash and shave. It would drain and there’d be little whiskers all over the sink. ‘Sorry’ he’d say. ‘Was trained not to waste water in the navy’.
Not having that particular training and living in a well watered state I enjoy luxuriating in the shower and keep the water running while I shave. The waste goes into cesspools and filters through a mile of sand to get back into aquifers.
I can understand not wasting water out at sea, though.
What about women who forget to put the seat back up when they’re done?
What about women who forget to put the seat back up when they’re done?
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