Posted on 09/12/2016 11:40:40 AM PDT by PROCON
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The Navy says a sailor who never reported being pregnant has given birth to a baby girl aboard an aircraft carrier at sea.
U.S. Naval Forces Central Command spokesman Cmdr. Bill Urban told the Virginian-Pilot ( http://bit.ly/2cRnBmO ) the 7-pound infant was recently born on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Persian Gulf. Both mother and daughter are doing well and were airlifted to a shore-based hospital.
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I would not serve these days. What did the Navy expect would happen with men and women on a ship for months at a time? A number of male sailors don’t have to wait until shore leave now. When West Point was told to admit women they found out fast that the cadets were banging like rabbits.
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