With women now serving aboard ships, I have no idea how that has affected the rotation rates. When I was in, each woman in the Navy represented one lost shore duty billet for male sailors.
Shore duty billets are increasingly being filled by civilian contractors (aka retired Chiefs). Shore-based weapons departments, personnel departments and on and on, it's getting rare to see uniforms anymore. All retirees double dipping.
Ideally, Big Navy wants to get rid of all shore duty completely and open up all sea billets to everyone.
I got out just as our women were being assigned to combat ships.
I had friends on the USS CAPE COD aka the love boat. Everyone knew women serving combat ship was gonna be a cluster F. Ive heard the stories from friends still in. It’s a shame we’ve given in to political correctness.
If readiness was number one on the militaries plate then women would not be allowed on ships or in combat units.