First female submariners find few obstacles

Kitsap Sun (WA) ^ | June 16, 2012 | Ed Friedrich

[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."

[QT3.14]

What would the guys say off the record?

[pops88]

ROFLMAO. Sure....

[laweeks]

Absolutely nothing to celebrate, but rather to rue.

How sad to put women in harm’s way to satisfy a PC agenda from a bunch of female politicians who’d never serve anyway.

A very sad thing.

[the invisib1e hand]

female submariners

this is a really bad idea.

[x]

First female submariners find few obstacles

Beards growing out just fine?

[Venturer]

One of the best things about the female anatomy : It is designed to fit most everyone.

[Hammerhead]

except when they get their gd kotex clogged in the ball valves when trying to blow sanitaries overboard.

[martin_fierro]

This won’t end well.

[section9]

I can understand a petticoat crew, maybe on a boomer. But what happens on a long term cruise when some rating gets pregnant.

Especially if you’re on a boomer and you can’t just come in off a classified cruise.

Jeebus.

Best,

Chris

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

"The men adjusted to us being there, and we adjusted to them..."

Of course they did. It beats having to wait until shore leave to scratch the itch...

[Desron13]

"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."

As if there were any problems anyone from the top down would dare say a word. PLEASE!

[j_tull]

I am glad I retired when I did.

[353FMG]

Now, now, now, bite your tongue seaman.

[j_tull]

clogged in the ball valves when trying to blow sanitaries overboard.

It's even worse on the T-hulls (Tridents). Dirty sanitaries are pumped, not blown. The dirties have dedicated pumps (not the Main Drain Pump),but still.

[LibLieSlayer]

We will see the first pregnancies within the next 12 months.

LLS

[QT3.14]

How sad to put women in harm’s way to satisfy a PC agenda from a bunch of female politicians who’d never serve anyway.

Political Correctness is intellectual AIDS. Everything it touches it sickens and eventually kills.

-- William S. Lind

[twister881]

It must be like this, just one big, happy, PC, socially-engineered crew. ("Girls are what you sleep with after the game...not what you coach during the game.")

[jazusamo]

25 women who broke one of the Navy's final gender barriers have gone on patrol and been accepted among their crews.

Ahh, peachy keen, just like the repeal of DADT has gone so smooth. /sarc

[rottndog]

But what happens on a long term cruise when some rating gets pregnant.

Especially if you’re on a boomer and you can’t just come in off a classified cruise.


Even a boomer doing 3 knots to nowhere will have to break off patrol and bring a pregnant female back to port. Submarines simply aren't equipped to deal with pregnancy and the potential complications thereof. Same reason submariners aren't allowed to go to sea with their wisdom teeth. Not to mention the fact that, IIRC, it is illegal to expose a fetus to occupational radiation.

[Bratch]

You mean the gals will be collecting seamen?

[Tanniker Smith]

“We sunk a truck!”

[rabidralph]

That’s gross.

[AU72]

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!

[rlmorel]

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.

[RedsHunter]

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

[Snickering Hound]

[DaxtonBrown]

[What would the guys say off the record?]

Something, something, filled with seamen.

[central_va]

Female submariners = Sperm whales.

[central_va]

[jazusamo]

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.

[SharpRightTurn]

“how you fit on the boat”

She put her finger on the key issue.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

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.

[jazusamo]

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

[Squantos]

Make a hole !

[Drango]

Join the Navy to ride the Waves.

(an oldie but a goodie)

[70times7]

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

[QT3.14]

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

[QT3.14]

Apologizing to pirates everywhere.

[gfbtbb]

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.

[Ditter]

I am so claustrophobic I can't even read this article! I am such a wimp.

[grobdriver]

We’ll see how long it takes for the first one to turn up pregnant.

[JimWayne]

But what happens on a long term cruise when some rating gets pregnant.

Sue the Navy and call for more regulations and grant $$$ to liberal professors to study the system.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

PMS Post menstrual submariner

[savagesusie]

Yep-—the reason they should never be on board to “serve”. They are a hinderance and liability and take up the same space as one male who they can NEVER be equal to-—in strength or emotional calm. A woman is not a man and no matter, how hard they try——they are never interchangeable.

This is a “utopian” Marxist ideal.....to destroy us from within and destroy Natural Laws-—to force the Big Lie that men and women are interchangeable-—the reason for homosexual “marriage” insanity.

Marx wanted no differences between the sexes and no mothers and fathers-—the state would raise all children and shape their worldview. This is to kill the mother instinct and the male instinct to “protect” women. It is to destroy the complementary cohesion of male and female. You never treat male and female the same-—they are not. It is fact!

The conditioning and brainwashing continues and the military has been infiltrated by Marxists to destroy it.

[Chode]

whats the over/under for when the first one gets pregnant???

[nascarnation]

Surely there’s some bookmakers in Vegas or Britain that will offer that betting line?

[QT3.14]

PMS Post menstrual submariner

New submarine classification. Here's an idea for the first hull number with an all-
female crew:

[DoughtyOne]

The men adjusted to us being there, and we adjusted to them," said Lt. j.g. Megan Bittner of the USS Ohio gold crew.

Can she please explain what adjusting she had to do, since she wasn't even on the sub before?

I'm more or less resigned to this, but there are still some comments that cause me to want to kick someone's ass.

[Chode]

prolly InTrade... 8^)