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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: QT3.14
I am so claustrophobic I can't even read this article! I am such a wimp.
41 posted on 06/18/2012 6:28:22 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: QT3.14

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


42 posted on 06/18/2012 6:28:45 PM PDT by grobdriver (Proud Member, Party of NO! Nobama, No Way, No How!)
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To: section9
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.

43 posted on 06/18/2012 6:29:18 PM PDT by JimWayne
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To: QT3.14

PMS Post menstrual submariner


44 posted on 06/18/2012 6:30:06 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (REPEAL OBAMACARE. Nothing else matters.)
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To: Hammerhead

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.


45 posted on 06/18/2012 6:31:01 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: QT3.14
whats the over/under for when the first one gets pregnant???
46 posted on 06/18/2012 6:41:44 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Chode

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


47 posted on 06/18/2012 6:44:24 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
PMS Post menstrual submariner

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


48 posted on 06/18/2012 6:48:46 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
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.

49 posted on 06/18/2012 6:48:56 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Republicanism: Y1 Rant Y2 Rant Y3 Rant Y4, Oh nevermind, vote for him anyway. Rinse & Repeat!)
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To: nascarnation
prolly InTrade... 8^)
50 posted on 06/18/2012 6:55:29 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: 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.


Obviously, we’ll just have to add a daycare section to the sub then, won’t we?


51 posted on 06/18/2012 7:10:10 PM PDT by bramps (Newt was the one, but Romney will do.)
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To: LibLieSlayer

They’ll have to go to all female crews.

Then there won’t be any seamen onboard.


52 posted on 06/18/2012 7:14:23 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: jazusamo

That is what I meant when I wrote this. It is what they will SAY.

And to them, in a weird Orwellian way, it will be true, because to them the definition of “successful” is entirely plastic to suit their needs.

And that definition won’t have anything to do with system capability, but all to do with some other political goal.


53 posted on 06/18/2012 7:22:50 PM PDT by rlmorel ("The safest road to Hell is the gradual one." Screwtape (C.S. Lewis))
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To: smokingfrog

Just imagine how the wives of the men who are at home feel about having their husbands ship out where they have limited communication with a bunch of other women.
My wife worked as a family counselor to Navy Submariner’s and it was bad enough with the long silent separations.


54 posted on 06/18/2012 7:28:37 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Bratch

That there is funny... I don’t care who you are!

LLS


55 posted on 06/18/2012 7:38:59 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: smokingfrog

Literally!

LLS


56 posted on 06/18/2012 7:40:13 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: rlmorel
I know that's what you meant and should have made that clear.

How good it would be to have another strong president for our military and foreign affairs in the WH.

There would undoubtedly be a fair sized exodus from the higher ranks or at least a sudden change of opinion on these matters by many of them.

We can only hope.

57 posted on 06/18/2012 7:41:28 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

50 millimeters, um, you aren’t working with much effective range, seaman dribbler...


58 posted on 06/18/2012 7:58:17 PM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suck at the tit of Capitalism.)
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To: QT3.14

It would just be cruel if those were the two women on the boat.


59 posted on 06/18/2012 7:59:40 PM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suck at the tit of Capitalism.)
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To: QT3.14
"It was just learning as a junior officer how you fit on the boat."

Kinda like a man in the boat?

60 posted on 06/18/2012 9:40:46 PM PDT by Roccus
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