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To: tumblindice

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.


15 posted on 10/29/2014 12:00:35 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: elcid1970
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.

I'm not a sailor either, but I read about them in a book :-) Each torpedo weighs between 1,000 and 1,500 lbs, and has to be worked on in constrained space. Failure of the powered loader won't be correctable by the muscle power of sailors. Furthermore, in battle conditions all the hatches are closed and secured; if you started with six sailors in the compartment, that's all you are going to have until the end. You cannot trivially summon more.

33 posted on 10/29/2014 12:45:13 PM PDT by Greysard
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