Posted on 10/29/2014 11:33:54 AM PDT by QT3.14
The Navy said it will deploy enlisted female sailors in 2016 aboard submarines with female officers already assigned to them.
In July, the Navy announced that enlisted female sailors will begin deploying on submarines in 2016. The enlisted women will be placed on ships with female officers where those naval officers can function as role-models and mentors, Connor said.
"We will build upon the ships that have women officers to lead and bring in senior women at the chief petty officer level just like we did with the women supply officers," he explained.
There are currently more than 100 female Navy officers serving on submarines, Vice Adm. Mike Connor, commander Atlantic submarine force, said Thursday at the Naval Submarine League's annual symposium in Falls Church, Va.
"They are doing well," Connor said.
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They don’t need no stinkin’ Seamen!
Where they will be submerged for months at a time.
Someone at the Pentagon needs to Google “menstrual cycle synchronization”.
I wonder if they’ll have a pizza delivery guy...
hey, as long as we have diversity, what difference does it make if we’re less secure.
Female Sailors to be Assigned to Submarines with Female Officers...
What could possibly go wrong??
Do “top” and “bottom” correlate with rank?
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Before criticizing the Navy, you Freepers should ask yourselves what could possibly go wrong?
More INTENTIONAL destruction of morale in our military. Yeah, by all means, let us put females in long tubes filled with seamen.
Let the jokes flow forth!
Put ‘em on attack subs. They’re genetically superior in that area.
USS PMS
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The jokes are busily writing themselves even as we speak.
Real question: will there actually be Navy submarines with all-female crews? I’m not a sailor but it seems like there is more hard physical lifting & levering kind of labor on a sub than even on an aircraft carrier.
Emergency Bon-Bon and Death by Chocolate ice creame resupply...
Women DO NOT belong on submarines. Unfortunately, it will take something tragic or criminal for the military to understand that.
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So once every month we'll be on the "brink"
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