Let me guess.....at a rate of pay that is 75 cents on the dollar that the men are getting? /sarc
“I believe women should have every opportunity to serve at sea, and that includes aboard submarines.”
Why should it be about the employees? It should be about the mission, and what best serves the mission. Not what serves the employees.
All I can say is that I wouldn’t want my sister going down on a submarine.
Most navies prohibited women from serving on submarines, even after they had been permitted to serve on surface warships. The Royal Norwegian Navy became the first navy to allow female crew on its submarines in 1985. The Royal Danish Navy allowed for female submariners in 1988. Others followed suit including the Swedish Navy (1989), the Royal Australian Navy (1998) and Canadian Navy (2002). In 1995, Solveig Krey of the Royal Norwegian Navy became the first female officer to assume command on a military submarine, HNoMS Kobben.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine
Have fun when they all start cycling together.
Gates is a bit of a stooge sadly
I’d like to see the rules about how pregnancies will be handled - standard monthly/bimonthly crew exchanges?
No good can come of this
Interesting. I understand that there are plenty of women out there who are attracted to long, hard cylindrical objects filled with seamen.
Sex City on the subs, then. Guess I was born too soon! Can’t the women at LEAST not get pregnant, though?