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Pentagon to Allow Women to Serve Aboard Navy Submarines
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Posted on 02/23/2010 4:57:11 PM PST by Bottom_Gun
The Pentagon will lift a decades-old policy that prohibits women from serving aboard Navy submarines.
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon has moved to lift a decades-old policy that prohibits women from serving aboard Navy submarines, part of a gradual reconsideration of women's roles in a military fighting two wars whose front lines can be anywhere.
At issue is the end of a policy that kept women from serving aboard the last type of ship off-limits to them. The thinking was that the close quarters aboard subs would make coed service difficult to manage.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates notified Congress in a letter signed Friday that the Navy intends to repeal the ban on women sailors on subs. Congress has 30 days to weigh in.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhodod; cluelessindc; militarywomen; pheromone; pheromones; submarine; usnavy
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OK, Just saw this on fox, found the story at the web-site. As a retired bubblhead Myself and my Wife Navy_Gal, also a Navy retiree, sat here shaking our heads knowing they're opening a whole new can of warms now!
Comments at the source are starting to get good!
To: Bottom_Gun
It will certainly give the term, hot bunking, a new meaning.
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posted on
02/23/2010 5:01:18 PM PST
by
Nosterrex
To: Bottom_Gun
Wow....another bad idea..... go have junior born on board before the tour is over.
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posted on
02/23/2010 5:01:22 PM PST
by
pointsal
( try MagicJack if you have had enough of Verizon)
To: Bottom_Gun
I’m sure they’ll be homosexuals also.
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posted on
02/23/2010 5:04:43 PM PST
by
donna
(SarahPAC has donated money to...(wait for it)...Lindsey Graham!)
To: Bottom_Gun
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posted on
02/23/2010 5:05:04 PM PST
by
ought-six
( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
To: Bottom_Gun
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posted on
02/23/2010 5:05:51 PM PST
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
To: Bottom_Gun
Gates & Mullen are trying to turn the Navy into a giant whorehouse. They are extreme PC whores, and both certifiably crazy.
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posted on
02/23/2010 5:06:06 PM PST
by
molybdenum
((A nation without borders is not a nation......Ronald Reagan.))
To: Nosterrex
No more extra socks! MM! SSN621
To: Bottom_Gun
They already did this on Down Periscope. And the lady on that sub, she ended up getting promoted to Director of NCIS.
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posted on
02/23/2010 5:07:54 PM PST
by
Raider Sam
(They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
To: donna
“I’m sure they’ll be homosexuals also.”
Unfortunately there already are. These degenerates will never be happy and won’t stop until everyone is forced to acknowledge that homosexuality is “normal and honorable.”
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posted on
02/23/2010 5:08:38 PM PST
by
ViLaLuz
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
To: Bottom_Gun
"... shaking our heads knowing they're opening a whole new can of warms now!" Warms. What are they?
(Smile!)
To: Bottom_Gun
This is stupid and does does not spell ‘national security’. Good grief! What is wrong with these people. Never mind; we all know what is wrong.
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posted on
02/23/2010 5:11:53 PM PST
by
cricket
(Proud to be the 'Party of NO')
To: James C. Bennett
Arrrghhhh...you got me ;)
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posted on
02/23/2010 5:11:59 PM PST
by
Bottom_Gun
(Crush depth dummy - proud NRA member & Certified Instructor)
To: Bottom_Gun
Robert Gates has been a lousy Sec of defense.
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posted on
02/23/2010 5:12:20 PM PST
by
mylife
(Opinions: $1.00 Halfbaked: 50c)
To: Bottom_Gun
"Hey, sailor - is that a Mark 48 torpedo in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"
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posted on
02/23/2010 5:13:05 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(Old fishermen never die. They just smell that way.)
To: Bottom_Gun
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posted on
02/23/2010 5:13:42 PM PST
by
Gipper08
(a real conservative for Congress... travishankins.com)
To: Bottom_Gun
Like hot biscuits at the breakfast table. Mmm mmm mmm.
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posted on
02/23/2010 5:15:56 PM PST
by
TruthHound
("He who does not punish evil commands it to be done." --Leonardo da Vinci)
To: donna
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posted on
02/23/2010 5:17:34 PM PST
by
TruthHound
("He who does not punish evil commands it to be done." --Leonardo da Vinci)
To: Bottom_Gun
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posted on
02/23/2010 5:24:24 PM PST
by
karnage
(worn arguments and old attitudes)
To: Bottom_Gun
Unfreakin’ believable! This is one of the dumbest ideas yet.
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posted on
02/23/2010 5:30:12 PM PST
by
ladyvet
(WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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