I never had the opportunity to serve with women on ships.
The Navy was gearing up for it, but I retired before it actually happened. It has been my experience in life that hormones trump common sense almost ever time. Don’t doubt that is true at sea as well as on land. That is bad for building a solid ship’s crew.
Same here.
I’m not sure I ever even talked to a female sailor. I KNOW I can’t remember ever seeing one.
Quick story: I had an attorney who was working on some litigation for me, and still does 20 years later, who, one day, got up from the table we had been working at in his office and said to a female employee of mine who was both uber smart and uber gorgeous.....”would you come with me, I want you to help Linda (not her name) with something”.
The attorney was in his thirties then. He then came back and sat down and with the door closed he looked at me and said...... “don’t you EVER bring her into my office again”. That is a textbook example of how a hot female in the room distracts the boys in the room! No legislation or regulation or feminist fantasy imaginable will ever change that!