Posted on 06/03/2014 8:51:52 AM PDT by QT3.14
First Lady Michelle Obama has agreed to sponsor a future submarine named after her home state that will be staffed by an all-female crew.
The White House has announced that Mrs Obama has accepted an invitation to be the backer of the USS Illinois, a Virginia-class submarine being built in Groton, Connecticut, and Newport News, Virginia.
The new nuclear-powered boat is expected to join the fleet in late 2015.
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not even close. Quite classified. But getting panties in a wad from being lost would be a true concern if under battle orders.
And that is another point— this is not about battle— it is about fairness to ....”all”. A literal joke of academic thought.
Damn the torpedoes! I have a headache!
From a practical perspective, I don’t see the problem here at all. They might need to build more toilets (to prevent long lines), but that’s about it.
was joking about the Windshield mounted navigation device. :)
Soon you can check it out on W00kipedia, Wøøkiepedia and w°°kipedia under USS Vagina.
The submarine will be very irritable and uncommunicative for about 5 days every month.
Also picturing the “success” stories the WH already has written about this once the sub is well into it’s deployment. First emergency they meet will have them coming home to medals all around. Write ups of the awards will have all long time submariners yawning about how mundane their scare was.
Too too funny...
A Vagina class sub, the PMS Illinois
So when she plays with her torpedoes, is it just envy?
[They write themselves...]
There is considerable freely accessed literature on this subject about the many insurmountable (from the perspective of the the purpose of a combat submarine— readiness for combat). It is NOT about the number of heads or long lines.
Technical systems that require physical strength to maintain, fire control that cannot be performed, weapons readiness.... a slew of items, aside from the synchronized hormonal cycles and clear capability differences from males.
Not to mention battery operated...
All of them... on the same 5 days, not available for defense of the country.
They'll have to be twice as big...(they go in pairs...)
Got it... no prob. Course it is speculated the qaida could use automobile sat nav for guidance of their homemade missiles.
I was just going to say, they better have a bunch of bull dykes on board for the all-hands stores loading working party. That's some manual labor involved there.
That's going to get pretty expensive. They'll have to create two classes of this particular sub. One that fires torpedoes and one that catches torpedoes.
It’s called the PMS attack sub!! No defenses, just full scale attack mode.
Fine. Let them have their “All Girls, All The Time” Sub, that sets a new precedent, so we men can go back to having our All Men” run businesses and operations too. Michelle has never even been in the service. This must concern her because her name will attract attention. Now this would make quite a reality show.
They still have plans to put females on male crew subs. Well, I think there are already subs with a few females on board.
1/2 of the crew will be 9n leave for reasons related to pms and other female issues.
Vagina class sub.
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