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>>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.

If the Pentagon would give it an honest shakedown, I’d agree. Unfortunately, political correctness mandates that any problems with women on submarines will be the fault of the men.

I served on subs for 8 years. It’s a stressful environment 24/7 and requires a certain amount of informality to keep people sane. Adding women and all the issues that involves would be disastrous.

Having a woman standing watch in Manuevering would make about 80% of the conversations we had off-limits. I’d hate to think what a couple months underwater would be like when you can’t talk about anything but the weather.

Having a woman standing watch in Manuevering would make about 80% of the conversations we had off-limits.

AT LEAST 80 percent, and that's if you weren't including the outside watchstanders like ERS, RT, and AEA. Sorry, but guys would be walking on eggshells so bad that morale would tank, retention would go to zero, masts would go sky-high, and I don't even wanna THINK about the ball-busting that would go on at Beeman's when guys from "that boat" showed up.

Then again, someone has to make the duty-section dinner run to Santana's, right? (Shameless Sandy Eggo reference...)