Ask any Chief Petty Officer, Senior Chief or Master Chief about the impact of co-Ed crews on training, deployment manning and readiness. It has wreaked absolute havoc; just like clockwork, a certain percentage of a ship’s female crew members get pregnant just before deployment, knowing they must be replaced. So, the Navy has to reach into the ranks of shore-based sailors or crews of similar vessels and pull someone to replace the pregnant sailor. So, multiple commands are affected.
Unanswered in this case: is the sailor single? Who is the father and why did she try to hide her pregnancy? In any case, she’s off the ship in the middle of a Persian Gulf deployment and her department is short-handed until they get a replacement. She’s quite a shipmate
Absolutely spot on. We waited nearly a year with a gapped billet for a certain weapon system tech. The replacement (a Fire Controlman First Class) reported on a Monday morning and was gone by Wednesday afternoon - pregnant. Big Navy will tell you they don’t keep those stats - because the news is abysmal.