[mylife]

Im bored. the reactors are all hermetically sealed.

[FreedomPoster]

Oh, I know, and I know you know. You were just a cc: on that one.

I never served, but they did try to recruit me for the NUPOC program when I was in college, many moons ago. I have a much better idea about the hardware involved than most.

[Travis McGee]

Let me post the most important reply on this thread again. From the time women were put on combatants until today, it's all been blue skies and butterflies for our Navy.

Now, recall naval reality from the fire on the Forrestal to ships torpedoed and burning in WW2. That is naval reality, and it will happen again. War at sea is not an episode of Star Trek, folks!

“When everything is going right, the sun is shining, nothing is burning and no one is dying, then women can handle most jobs, or have a male lift something for her, or turn something, or push or pull something for her without a problem, but when a third of the crew is dead or dying, metal is twisted and warped, the ship is burning and at threat of being lost, when hydraulics are out and ammunition and fighting equipment has to be muscled and wounded carried up and down ladders, then the 50% lessor, upper body strength of the female and the 1/3 less leg strength of the female, comes into play.”