Posted on 02/26/2010 4:44:12 PM PST by SandRat
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 2010 – Female sailors will begin serving on submarines by the end of next year, with Naval Academy graduates leading the way, Navy leaders told a Senate committee yesterday.
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Navy is in a good position to move forward with integrating women onto submarines.
“We think we learned a lot about integrating women in the services years ago, and those lessons are relevant today,” Mabus said. Those lessons, he said, include having a “critical mass” of female candidates, having senior women to serve as mentors, and having submarines that don’t require modifications: the SSBN ballistic missile and SSGN guided-missile subs.
Finally, Mabus said, “We have the lesson learned to make sure any questions are answered, … and we’re very open and transparent on how we’ll do this. We think this is a great idea that will enhance our warfighting capabilities.”
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates notified Congress on Feb. 19 of the intended change to Navy policy. Mabus had pushed for the change since taking office in May. Adm. Gary Roughead, chief of naval operations, endorsed the change, saying in a statement released in September that his experience commanding a mixed-gender surface-combatant ship makes him “very comfortable” integrating women into the submarine force. The Navy changed its policy to allow women to serve on combatant ships in 1993.
“We have a great plan, and we’re ready to go for the first women to come aboard in late 2011,” Roughead told the Senate committee yesterday. In a prepared statement to the committee, he said the change would enable the submarine force “to leverage the tremendous talent and potential of our female officers and enlisted personnel.”
Besides the incoming officers from the academy, the first women submariners will include female supply corps officers at the department head level, Roughead said. The change will be phased in over time to include enlisted female sailors on the SSBN and SSGNs, he said. Women will be added to the Navy’s SSN fast-attack submarines after necessary modifications can be determined, he said.
“This initiative has my personal attention, and I will continue to keep you informed as we integrate these highly motivated and capable officers into our submarine force,” Roughead told the committee.
Here is what we do on subs...
We ask that every sailor leave that shit on the shore.
Even without a fight, it’s a distraction.”
Amen
Never seen NCIS
Never seen NCIS
Do not like dealing with homosexuals pushing themselves on you.
LOL, Biker Chick do you write your own material?
Either have I.
Either have I.
Wise acre
Actually,bobbing up and down in an un-dignified living death in Puget Sound,along with all of her Sturgeon class sisters, with her reactor compartment guts cut out and buried in the desert of easten Washington state.
Laugh now, okay, fine.
The 637-class won the cold war.
The Los Angeles class has kept the post-cold-war peace and killed several high-value Al-Qaeda assets in East Africa.
As for the Seawolf and Virginia class?
With women aboard?
So being truthful is funny...OK
I was a 637 sailor.
They were fine boats
IrishCatholic has nailed it. LPD 12 (USS Shreveport) was the largest ship the Navy has had the privilege of toting my sorry ass around. The berthing is spartan. Privacy, zero. When I lay down to sleep, 13 inches separated me from the next jarhead above, 5 layers deep.
With a CVN (aircraft carrier) space can be made.
When you get to boat as small as an SSBN (ballistic missile sub), dry goods are stacked in the passageways.
Drop down to SSN (fast attack sub), junior crew share racks (bunks). One gets out of bed to man his post, and one coming off duty crawls in. Hotbunking, they call it.
Can ya almost see where he is coming from?
Semper Fi!
Rob
Wise hectare (we’ve gone metric)
L Mendel Rivers used to be ported in Charleston wasnt it?
Ive been aboard but never rode it
Now they will be womaning their posts.
So did one of those homosexuals “push herself on you”? LOL
My friend had it happen to her so I chose not to go there to work.
I was unaware that they had pre natal care on subs!
I guess now they will be "personing". It used to be "All hands man your battlestations". I guess now it will be "All hands person your battlestations".
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