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Exclusive: Navy to Lift Ban on Women Serving Aboard Submarines
ABC News ^ | February 23, 2010 | DAVID KERLEY and LUIS MARTINEZ

Posted on 02/23/2010 11:15:53 AM PST by SloopJohnB

Women are a big step closer to serving on U.S. Navy submarines. ABC News has learned that the Navy has decided to lift the ban on female submarine crew members. Subs are one of the last places in the military from which women are excluded.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: agenda; bhodod; cluelessindc; dumb; idiocy; militarywomen; navy; pc; sink; submarine; usmilitary; usnavy; women
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To: ken5050
"...there's the Wahoo!, Barracuda, Bonefish, Plunger, Pompon, and of course Bang to choose from.."

I'm sorry, but in quickly reading through your posting, I thought the list of ships read, "Wahoo!, Barracuda, Bonefish, Plunger, Tampon, and of course Bang to choose from.."

Well, it is in keeping with the subject matter of this thread.

61 posted on 02/23/2010 12:08:42 PM PST by BlueLancer (I'm getting a fine tootsy-frootsying right here...)
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To: Altura Ct.

“In declining states the leadership intuitively choses the most harmful course of action.”- A Great Historian 1888


62 posted on 02/23/2010 12:11:13 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: from occupied ga
Most nuclear plants have unisex facilities for the refueling and outage crews. Never heard of any problems arising even though they work long and hard.

They go home after work. For submariners, the sub is their home.

63 posted on 02/23/2010 12:11:37 PM PST by ColdWater ("The theory of evolution really has no bearing on what I'm trying to accomplish with FR anyway. ")
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To: Pajama Blogger

One thing I found in the miltary is that no matter how homely the girl was, there were always at least two guys that wanted to sleep with her, and were willing to fight about it.


64 posted on 02/23/2010 12:12:20 PM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: SloopJohnB; All

OH CRAP! This is plain STUPID! I’m not a navy man, but I’ve certainly heard their thoughts on the subject.
Submarine duty is tough; those in it look forward to their time in shore duty. Women, when they find the sub business tougher than they expected, will simply get themselves pregnant and get reassigned to those precious few shore duty positions!


65 posted on 02/23/2010 12:15:10 PM PST by ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY (It's the spending, Stupid!)
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To: SloopJohnB
whats long and hard and full of sea men?


66 posted on 02/23/2010 12:17:11 PM PST by Revelation 911 (How many 100's of 1000's of our servicemen died so we would never bow to a king?" -freeper pnh102)
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To: SloopJohnB

that’s hot!


67 posted on 02/23/2010 12:18:21 PM PST by Oratam
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To: King_Corey

Puts a whole new meaning to...’going down on a long, hard tube filled with seamen’...


68 posted on 02/23/2010 12:21:18 PM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different)
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To: SloopJohnB
Women are a big step closer to serving on U.S. Navy submarines. ABC News has learned that the Navy has decided to lift the ban on female submarine crew members. Subs are one of the last places in the military from which women are excluded.

The insanity of women on ships continues! I wish that the U. S. Navy would publish the cost of this social experiment, in dollars, in loss of effectiveness, in loss of readiness, etc. It is a bad idea gone worse IMO.

69 posted on 02/23/2010 12:23:27 PM PST by olezip
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To: SloopJohnB

What will most likely happen is that it will only be for women officers only, and on ballistic missile submarines, or on guided missile submarines. So that they can put 3 women in a stateroom together of their own. I believe this concept will work very well. Smaller surface ships do nearly the same thing.


70 posted on 02/23/2010 12:24:45 PM PST by castlegreyskull
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To: Doohickey; SmithL; PogySailor
{{{ping}}}
71 posted on 02/23/2010 12:27:36 PM PST by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress!)
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To: USNBandit

2 guys??? At least 100 hundred guys would sleep with the ugliest girl in the Navy.


72 posted on 02/23/2010 12:28:26 PM PST by castlegreyskull
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To: BIGLOOK; SloopJohnB

Prepare to Snorkle!


73 posted on 02/23/2010 12:31:35 PM PST by SmithL
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To: ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY

Stupid big time.
What other country does this?
It does nothing toward the real goals of the military.
Practical reality has been completely ignored.
There is nothing wrong with women in the military, but front line service is not the place to be. It is bad enough to expect men to go the horrors of war, but why put women through it also? My grandfather was in trench warfare in WW1. Never spoke a word on his time in Europe. It was too painful and he could not live with the memories of what happened there. The doofuses who are promoting this want to see more female general officers, but do they also want to see more females in military hospitals, mental institutions or in graves? They always leave that part out.


74 posted on 02/23/2010 12:36:16 PM PST by Texas resident (Hunkered Down)
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To: SloopJohnB

Give the corpsman (corpse man, for those in the WH) the tools to perform abortions and C-sections and you are set.

Not like you can medi-evac a submariner off a sub.

I guess you can make a policy, that what goes on during sub missions stays on sub missions.

You could call it ‘Run Silent, Run Deep’


75 posted on 02/23/2010 12:41:41 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: Jessarah

Yeah they have to come up to get messages from home. anyway I shouldn’t talk about it.


76 posted on 02/23/2010 12:47:02 PM PST by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: SloopJohnB

Subs are almost entirely without the space and privacy to make fooling around very attractive. For those same reasons, a more likely scenario are massive charges and suits against male sailors for not respecting their privacy, making crude remarks, telling offensive jokes and touching while maneuvering through the very tight passages of the boat. For all of those reasons it’s a poor idea.


77 posted on 02/23/2010 12:47:46 PM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: MinorityRepublican

My thoughts exactly.


78 posted on 02/23/2010 12:48:53 PM PST by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: SloopJohnB

An they will all be named Amiee......:o)


79 posted on 02/23/2010 12:49:04 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: RJS1950

Well one thing that will stop this is when mass murder happens because women are having a PMS moment.


80 posted on 02/23/2010 12:50:45 PM PST by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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