The sub tender your talking about wouldn’t be the USS CapeCod would it?
When I was in the ship was known as the love boat. The sailors on that
ship had some crazy stories of love triangles and jealous fights over
women. Not to mention the pregnancies. What a mess that ship
was.
No. It was the Emory S. Land. I imagine every ship that had women on it experienced the same or similar problems. One other thing that you mentioned..pregnancy..back in the 1980’s if a woman got pregnant she wasn’t transferred out of her division. She was put on light/lighter duty and then at some point sent Temporary Assigned Duty to a hospital.
What that did was make the division short handed. They couldn’t get someone else into the division to fill her billet because technically she was still billeted to that division. It was viewed by others in the division as extra leave because being TAD to a hospital meant that the hospital didn’t really keep tabs on you except for doctor appts. It also wound up cutting into and causing other sailors leave being cancelled because after all, you can’t cancel pregnancy.
All in all, it did not make units or the ship operate at a efficient rate. If women weren’t on the ship, I guarantee it would have been far more efficient.