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First female submariners find few obstacles
Kitsap Sun (WA) ^ | June 16, 2012 | Ed Friedrich

Posted on 06/18/2012 5:13:53 PM PDT by QT3.14

Female submariners are fitting right in.

Since reporting to their boats in November, 25 women who broke one of the Navy's final gender barriers have gone on patrol and been accepted among their crews.

"The men adjusted to us being there, and we adjusted to them," said Lt. j.g. Megan Bittner of the USS Ohio gold crew. "It was quick. There were no big problems. No stumbling blocks along the way. It was just learning as a junior officer how you fit on the boat."

(Excerpt) Read more at kitsapsun.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: military; navy; submarine; troopsupport; women
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To: LibLieSlayer
You mean the gals will be collecting seamen?
21 posted on 06/18/2012 5:37:19 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: twister881

“We sunk a truck!”


22 posted on 06/18/2012 5:42:53 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: Hammerhead

That’s gross.


23 posted on 06/18/2012 5:46:16 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: QT3.14
I guess the following song is obsolete:

Men, men, men,
We're a ship all full of men,
So throw your condoms over board there's nothing here but men!

24 posted on 06/18/2012 5:46:16 PM PDT by AU72
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To: jazusamo

There was a rather extensive thread over the past several days about women getting into Ranger School. My final take on it was this:

In 5 years after women join the Rangers/SEALS/Delta/(I add in Subs here) you will hear talking heads in and out of the military who will say things like:

NEWS ANCHOR/POLITICIAN/MILITARY COMMANDER: “When we integrated women and homosexuals into these units, people were saying it was going to be a disaster, that it would hurt mission capability, morale and such. We are more capable now than we have ever been, and have the moral buttress of diversity and equality. Remember how they said the same thing about the military when blacks were going to be integrated back in 1946? Same result here...the world didn’t end, and it won’t. It was the right thing to do, and we can all be proud of the diversity we now see.”

I HATE it when I am right, and this quickly, too.


25 posted on 06/18/2012 5:46:47 PM PDT by rlmorel ("The safest road to Hell is the gradual one." Screwtape (C.S. Lewis))
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To: All

In the sewer pipe service, there’s nothing that can’t be accomplished with an appropriate CNO order and a few cases of FDS.


26 posted on 06/18/2012 5:52:42 PM PDT by RedsHunter
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To: QT3.14

27 posted on 06/18/2012 5:53:45 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: QT3.14

[What would the guys say off the record?]

Something, something, filled with seamen.


28 posted on 06/18/2012 5:54:13 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: Bratch

Female submariners = Sperm whales.


29 posted on 06/18/2012 5:59:53 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: jazusamo

30 posted on 06/18/2012 6:04:00 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: rlmorel
I've little doubt you're correct about what the talking heads will be saying, but that sure doesn't make it true.

I doubt seriously we'll be hearing about the tragedy's this will cause and the cost regarding military readiness.

Flying fighter planes is one thing, even being a part of crews in larger aircraft but when it comes to subs, ground pounders, Rangers/SEALS/Delta it's a whole different story.

31 posted on 06/18/2012 6:06:13 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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To: QT3.14

“how you fit on the boat”

She put her finger on the key issue.


32 posted on 06/18/2012 6:07:44 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn ( White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: QT3.14

Women on a sub.

Range, 50 milimeters. Ready torpedo tubes one and two.

Fire one.

One away, sir!

Fire two.

Two away sir!

Direct hit! It’s twins, sir.


33 posted on 06/18/2012 6:09:37 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (REPEAL OBAMACARE. Nothing else matters.)
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To: central_va

At least she learned to keep the pockets buttoned. :)


34 posted on 06/18/2012 6:10:05 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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To: QT3.14

Make a hole !


35 posted on 06/18/2012 6:10:14 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: QT3.14

Join the Navy to ride the Waves.

(an oldie but a goodie)


36 posted on 06/18/2012 6:10:38 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: QT3.14

It will give a whole new meaning to the term “Hot Racking”


37 posted on 06/18/2012 6:13:17 PM PDT by 70times7 (Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
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To: All
Ahh, peachy keen, just like the repeal of DADT has gone so smooth. /sarc

Speaking of DADT and women in the Obama Navy…

Avast ye! Ye shiver me timbers……Arrrrgh matey...

/sarc


38 posted on 06/18/2012 6:18:53 PM PDT by QT3.14 ( USA: Likely only country in world history to adopt policies and laws that ensure self-destruction)
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To: QT3.14

Apologizing to pirates everywhere.


39 posted on 06/18/2012 6:21:05 PM PDT by QT3.14 ( USA: Likely only country in world history to adopt policies and laws that ensure self-destruction)
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To: laweeks

Never did serve, never would serve, just blow smoke and BS.
That’s all you need to push other girls into places they do not belong.Hypocrisy has no limits.


40 posted on 06/18/2012 6:26:30 PM PDT by gfbtbb (The answer to your question will not be found here.)
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