I always said the first issue would be that 80 men are gonna get pissed off if 14 women get their own shower and head, and the 80 men lose one of theirs.
So whats the brass do? They say, “well, we’ll make em officers and that will put an end to that crap”
Now were gonna have 14 greenhorn splittails on board demanding respect and ordering around career sailors.
This is gonna get ugly, hell we generally have to teach male Jr officers how it works.
“You need to stand down butterbar”.
People who have never been on a boat just to not understand how it all works.
One big eval criteria for officers is enlisted retention within their command.
It’ll be interesting to see if the enlisted males (and, iirc, enlisted submariners cost the Navy a LOT more to train than their non-bubbleheaded bretheren) start voting with their feet when their enlistments run out. And if so what happens to the careers of the female officers.
Truly. I worry about the danger to the crew— the people who volunteered for this duty, worked long and hard to learn the technical skills to do it, so that the whole crew will be safely conducted to their combat area if/when the time comes.
There is NO room for the prima donnas (male or female) in command structure. They cannot flaunt or accomodate biologic differences and expect to get the degree of readiness and capability this sophisticated vessel demands. Someone is going to get killed— maybe a lot of someones.