The LOVE boat . . . . something exciting and new!
The LOVE boat . . . . promises something for everyone!
Set your course for adventure your mind on a new ROmance!
It’s why we called female members - ‘morale gear’ and why dependents HATE coed deployment doctrine.
Not familiar with the term “morale gear” but the Love Boat certainly popped immediately into my head when I read this.
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.’
I didn’t see anything in the article that said the sexual assaults were on females............
I am so glad that my Navy days ended before coed warships. I cannot imagine the headaches involved. I was at NTC Orlando in the wake of their little scandal in the early 90’s. Human biology cannot be over-ridden with a lawful order.
I never heard it called that.