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To: RinaseaofDs

Can’t beat the USS Acadia (AD-42) from Gulf War I.

On 5 September 1990 the ship departed San Diego for first war-time deployment of male-female crew on a U.S. Navy combat vessel, to the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. Just over one third of her crew were women.

In 1991, when the ship returned to San Diego from the deployment, thirty-six women were missing from the ship, the result of medical transfers for pregnancy. It was a particular embarrassment for the Navy, who had to look at the success on the battlefield of the other military branches during the Gulf War while hearing one of its vessels was derisively called ‘The Love Boat.’


27 posted on 12/04/2009 12:12:37 PM PST by Ro_Thunder ("Other than ending SLAVERY, FASCISM, NAZISM and COMMUNISM, war has never solved anything")
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To: Ro_Thunder

My ship, USS McKee (AS-41) came back from that trip almost in the same shape. I checked on board right after the return from GWI.

Some of my unmarried friends (and a couple of married ones) enjoyed the “duty booty” in port. But most wanted nothing to do with them.


36 posted on 12/04/2009 12:42:57 PM PST by EricT. (Can we start hanging them yet?)
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