What should be and what is are always two different things.
Sure security should be in the hands of biggest toughest SOBs around. Unfortunately on a ship, and it has always been this way, they are never enough of them to assign to the QD watch all the time. In many cases strongest and toughest are hole snipes that never see a QD watch. So whose left. Anyone on the watch bill, that’s who. I have stood QD watches with 92 lbs. disbursing clerks that my sister could take. I have stood QD watches with men that I would never assign to an ammo working party, because after handling the third 5” 47 lb. projo, they would drop next one. Your point is that it happened because a woman was on watch at that particular time. My point is, that based on my experience, it could have happened just as easily with a lot of men on the same watch.
We will just have to agree to disagree whether or not young girls should be put in these kind of positions.
I think this incident proves without a doubt that the girl lost the fight and that Mayo lost his life because she lost control of the weapon to the perp who then used it to kill Mayo. Surely we can agree on that much?!
We may be gaining a little though because MAYBE, just MAYBE, the Navy has learned from Seaman Mayo’s death that weak little girls standing quarterdeck watches “can” get sailors killed because up against a strong male attacker/terrorist they are defenseless ergo so is the billion dollar ship.
Your continuing argument that the strength of the girl in this incident has nothing to do with Mayo’s death and should not be discussed or considered and could’ve happened to anybody and most naval ships have no big strong men on them are not persuasive to me and seem demonstrative of typical PC mentality. Namely, the PC crowd loves to say in situations like this “look, this is something that is not even permissible to be discussed because you are racist, a homophobe or gender biased to even bring it up”. As Ben Carson says, we have to get over not talking about issues just because The Left starts throwing a hissy fit and slinging personal insults.
Lastly, since you so far have shared little about your experience on this subject, and I have shared mine in detail, I have to presume my experience in the Navy is just as compelling as yours.