http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-18158980
Posted on 05/24/2012 4:35:56 PM PDT by QT3.14
A woman yesterday took command of a frontline warship for the first time in the Navy’s 500-year history.
Commander Sarah West, 40, is now in sole control of HMS Portland, a Type 23 frigate and its mostly male crew of 185.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
Is it true this ship is being painted pink? /s
You are Biden
“None of this is in the US Navy. Yet.”
Come on man, where you been? Ya didn’t read about
CAPT Holly Graf?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-18158980
Holly Graf
All female ship. That would called a tuna boat.
All female ship. That would be called a tuna boat.
This woman has earned this command.
Whats your naval experience, Nelson?.
This woman has earned this command.
Whats your naval experience, Nelson?.
Somehow the name Lt. Grace Hopper comes to mind.
USS Sea Tiger
Lieutenant Commander Matthew T. "Matt" Sherman, USN
On this date (May 24) 1941, the German battleship Bismarck sank the British battle cruiser HMS Hood in the North Atlantic, killing all but three (3) of the 1,418 men on board.
I knew a guy whose father was a company commander of a German unit during the battle of Berlin in WWII.
He took a slaughterhouse in East Berlin defended by a Russian WOMEN’S BRIGADE of infantry.
The Russian women had hung their German prisoners up on the meathooks ALIVE.
His father’s comment, “Women make fine infantry. You just have to find the right women.”
I knew a guy whose father was a company commander of a German unit during the battle of Berlin in WWII.
He took a slaughterhouse in East Berlin defended by a Russian WOMEN’S BRIGADE of infantry.
The Russian women had hung their German prisoners up on the meathooks ALIVE.
His father’s comment, “Women make fine infantry. You just have to find the right women.”
I could salute her, where it not for the prostate surgery.
Liberals like to pretend that sex won't happen, then they pretend that it doesn't matter if it does happen, then they pretend the baby doesn't matter and can be tossed out with the garbage (which has become a rite of passage for liberal women).
Reminds me of the fellow who told Mark Steyn that we could afford to be stupid (fiscally). People who think that way wind up finding they vastly underestimated the price of stupid.
Operation Petticoat?
There is some historical facts in the movie.
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