This may very well be a step forward for some women. But it is several steps backward for military efficiency and effectiveness. Has anyone run the numbers for the cost of pregnancies? What are the statistics for pregnant sailors on board ships? What is the cost of the pre- and post-natal care? What is the cost of interruption of operations to evacuate the women?
What percentage of dissonance involve women, especially on board ships? I would guess close to 100%.
What is the historical and anthropological basis for women being banned from ships in the days of sailing vessels?
Why do Democrats avoid common sense when it comes to the military? Why do Democrats dangle funding threats to ensure that their pet social experiments come about? These programs have proved to be inefficient and ineffective, yet the Democrats keep pushing them.
I’ll listen to morons like Erbe when we have a draft that requires, for equality sake, 50% of military being women, including combat units.
Put plainly here by me.. a sane person... WE ARE ALL SO FUC#ED! If you are young and considering having babies.. DON’T! Every day that goes by, we become more terminal. China will roll over our homo armies in a day. There is not one of us.. including your beloved Sarah Palin.. who will say no. There is not a one of us with the guts to say no. We are doomed. Oh, all you gun nuts out there... they will either take your little pop guns in a day, or they will simply kill you. All because there wasn’t a one of us who could look at the fuc$ing cameras, point his/her finger at the lens. and say no. Save your last bullet for yourselves.. you’re going to need it.
Real smart. Recipe for disaster:
1. Add 1 World’s most sophisticated Weapons System.
2. Add ship’s compliment of horny dudes who need to be paying 110% attention to what they are doing on watch, all the time.
3. Add females
4. Stir vigorously and enjoy the fireworks.
Idiots. It has NOTHING to do with sexism. It has everything to do with discipline and performance aboard a dangerous vessel, cruising at dangerous depths, carrying more explosive power than was used in the twentieth century.
*head thumping against bulkhead*
heh.... the Star Trek comment above is dead on!
Q: What’s long, round, hard, and full of seamen?
A: A submarine! (Now with seawomen too!)
From Military.com
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.