When someone gets a copy of the new NavOp covering “Hot Bunking”, please post it, as I think it would be highly entertaining...
You Bubbleheads...
Do any of these idiots that think this is such a great idea ever spend time on a sub?
Fire him now! This ain’t a movie.
What a joke.
We will soon subs that have to surface or return to port due to a pregnancy...so much for mission first.
So two months into a deployment she is found to be ah, with child.
Now what, they still have several months under water.
Reported on Jon Stewart? I just heard disturbing news from my Army daughter, new privates, specialists, entry level recruits assigned to their first Army posts are whining their superiors are ‘too mean and being sweared at’ and have been given ‘stress cards’ or time outs if their sarge is ‘too mean’, present the card, and you get a break. Also, there are trauma areas for new recruits on posts if it gets too stressful. My first thought was, ‘oh terrorist, here’s my card, please wait until I’ve composed myself before you cut my head off’. I’m not sure I’m a fan of women on subs. Then again, if it’s gays, what’s the difference other than pregnancy? Until we have a real government that believes in the constitution, we’re screwed.
This statement proves that SecNav has no clue about what he's talking about:
“It will take a little while because you’ve got to interview people and you’ve got to be nuclear trained,” he said, referring to prerequisite steps before a sailor is assigned to a submarine.
There are plenty of female nukes. One of my guys was married to an M Div-er on the Theodore Roosevelt. Furthermore, it's not like every member of the crew is a propay getting nuke.
Besides, boomers have always been full of women. :)
Someone needs to send this idiot a copy of this movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053143/
Sub ping!
This is an extremely Bad idea.
Women ‘Soon’ Will Service on Submarines, Flowerplough Says.
Me brudder, on a LST and a destroyer tender in the 80s, saw his ship/shore rotation go from 3 years/3 years to 5 years/1 year because the Navy’s machine shop women at sea often got pregnant as quickly as possible to get mandated a shore berth.
I would like it if the Navy put women on just one or two subs as a "shake down" to double check the thesis that it's workable.
Just this Navy Dad's opinion.
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“Officials previously have cited a lack of privacy and the cost of reconfiguring subs as obstacles to allowing female crewmembers to serve aboard the vessels.”
If i recall correctly, they needed to make toilet and bed accommodations for females. Since space on a sub is limited, they were discussing decreasing capacity of weapons systems to accommodate the woman’s facilities.
There was a time when every decision of the military would be solved by the question “Does it make us a better fighting force?”
Obviously that question is no longer asked.
I put up this scenerio before: put ten women on a 688. Since I am sure they can’t hot rack you have to put them in lower level berthing which I think has 15 racks. So now 45 more qualified men have to hot rack just so that the petticoat Navy can pat itself on the back. Thats almost half the enlisted on board. The beatings will continue until moral improves.
Former MM1(SS)
We've lost our way, Amerika.
(Do subs even *do* 6 month cruises?)
“It will take a little while because you’ve got to interview people and you’ve got to be nuclear trained,”
and you have to retrofit cramped billion dollar subs with heads and sleeping quarters and you have to dumb down the strength requirements and you have to deal with the jealousy and pregnancy problems on board and the jealousy from wives at home.
But other than that, it will be as easy as relocating Guantanamo
It is beneath the dignity of the office of Navy Secretary to appear on Comedy Central, much less Daly’s show.