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Let women work on subs, Navy secretary says
usatoday.com ^ | 9/24/09 | William H. McMichael and Andrew Scutro, Navy Times

Posted on 09/24/2009 10:20:38 PM PDT by Nachum

Edited on 09/25/2009 6:37:36 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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Ah, now we know why Mabus got the nod for the Navy Sec. job.

Link to USA Today reprint of the Navy Times article below-

1 posted on 09/24/2009 10:20:38 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2009-09-24-women-submarines_N.htm


2 posted on 09/24/2009 10:20:59 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, ping


3 posted on 09/24/2009 10:21:23 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

What?! Lock women in a sub full of sea-men? (Sorry, couldn’t resist)


4 posted on 09/24/2009 10:22:18 PM PDT by ironwill (III - Molon Labe)
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To: Nachum

I have no problem with women in the military, but I see only bad things coming from this....
Too close, too confined quarters.

And I think everybody here knows what they don’t publicize about women on Warships.


5 posted on 09/24/2009 10:22:20 PM PDT by tcrlaf ("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
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To: Nachum

It won’t work. It never has and it never will. Too much sexual tension down there. Fer Crissakes...can’t they use their common sense?? SSZ


6 posted on 09/24/2009 10:23:03 PM PDT by szweig (Had it up to here)
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To: Nachum

>> now we know why Mabus got the nod for the Navy Sec. job.

Bingo!


7 posted on 09/24/2009 10:23:08 PM PDT by QBFimi2 (Ve are the New World Order; ve bring to the world dis-order. Spike Jones, 1943.)
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To: Nachum

It will give new meaning to hot racks....that’s for sure. Bunch of maroons.


9 posted on 09/24/2009 10:25:44 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Yonder stands your orphan with his gun)
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To: Nachum

I will not insult women or submariners by making the obvious references to “bubbleheads” or “...going down!”

On a serious note, there is a nice little memorial to submariners on the mainland side of the Cape Cod Canal. It makes you stop and think what a great country we are (were?).


10 posted on 09/24/2009 10:26:28 PM PDT by Former War Criminal (My soon-to-be senior Senator said so.)
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To: szweig

These @sshats know exactly what they are doing. This is purely at attack against our military for the purpose of weakening this nation.


11 posted on 09/24/2009 10:26:56 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a U.S. Army Infantry Soldier whose wife is expecting twins SONS.)
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To: Nachum

I’d like to hear sub-driver’s thoughts (however he spells his name).


12 posted on 09/24/2009 10:27:39 PM PDT by TurtleUp ([...Insert today's quote from Community-Organizer-in-Chief...] - Obama, YOU LIE!)
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To: tcrlaf

The ladies will make A LOT of money.


13 posted on 09/24/2009 10:28:11 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: ironwill
Submarine Sex. That will be group sex, because of confined quarters on a sub.

This is not a good idea, even having female pheromes circulating in the ventilating system of subs with men on board for months at a time, is not a good idea.Unless you have equal numbers of women and men who pair off as seaman couples.Thats the only way it would work as well as what we have now in the submarine service, in terms of operational functionality.

Its idiotic to put women on a sub, unless its ALL women.

14 posted on 09/24/2009 10:31:37 PM PDT by Candor7 (The effective weapons against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (Member NRA)
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Don’t they have cabin boys?


15 posted on 09/24/2009 10:42:28 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Nachum

Not a good idea...lead nothing but to trouble.


16 posted on 09/24/2009 10:46:03 PM PDT by Red Steel
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>> having female pheromones circulating in the ventilating system ... is not a good idea. Unless you have equal numbers of women and men ...

You are a wise man, sir. In the ‘70s, I flew DC-8s for an American a charter carrier. At one time the company flew B-727s for their Caribbean trips. The planes were crewed with three pilots and three flight attendants. To put it mildly, a good time was had by all (except spouses).

Some years later I had a series of long layovers in Dakar; one of the pilots had brought his wife with him. At some point she confided: “Poor Fred, he always came home sooooo exhausted. Those -727 trips took so much out of him”. We all bit our tongues and said nothing.


17 posted on 09/24/2009 10:51:12 PM PDT by QBFimi2 (Ve are the New World Order; ve bring to the world dis-order. Spike Jones, 1943.)
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To: tcrlaf

Women on warships get knocked up, and they charge their superiors with sexual harassment. I see more of the same coming from women in subs. It’s another social experiment. Things are tried out in the military before they are tried out on the rest of us, e.g. integration. It’s about breaking down bourgeois social barriers — taking away privacy, respect for others, the sanctity of sex within marriage. This will degrade professionalism in the subs and take away from operational efficiency. It will just be a big distraction and open another can of worms (and cheese).


18 posted on 09/24/2009 10:51:26 PM PDT by Judges Gone Wild (Who is this uncircumcised, to oppose the armies of The Living God?)
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To: Morgana

Yeah....the men just can’t be trusted.


19 posted on 09/24/2009 10:59:08 PM PDT by TNdandelion (I'd rather have FedEx run my healthcare than USPS.)
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To: QBFimi2
The mile high club, is about to be joined by the 40,000 leagues under the sea club.

LOL.

20 posted on 09/24/2009 11:13:38 PM PDT by Candor7 (The effective weapons against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (Member NRA)
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