Posted on 02/07/2019 2:58:58 AM PST by blueplum
Well, I see you missed the point of the story.
In every one of those career fields, absolutely.
The purpose of the military is to go to war. Period.
Anyone not able to do is not an asset, they are a hindrance.
Do the damned job - ALL OF THE JOB, or get out.
The navy argument was this. She was cancer-free now, and so deployable, and her unit was deploying.
She had applied to be sent back to a school, at considerable expense, to become a clinical psychologist.
The Navy looked at her cancer (in remission), and decided it could come back at any time, and if it did, she would then be discharged, and the money they put into training her would go to waste. So, they rejected her request.
My guess is the “change” the admiral discussed is to stop rejecting candidates for expensive additional training based on the risk that a cancer might come back. It will mean that once in a while, we will waste money training someone who never serves in the new position, but will stop the navy from being attacked for being insensitive to cancer survivors.
Wouldn't that be every one of the career fields the Navy has?
Her medical history said she was cancer free and so not eligible for a medical waiver. It appears she was the one claiming unfit by filing for a deployment waiver.
I'm not sure why her parents are asking for 'justice'. The soldier certainly could have pursued a degree outside of her military specialty post-service with the GI Bill like most folk do or even inservice like my dad did going to night school. Nowadays, more than a few on-line Universities specialize in handing out doctorates. I forget the name of the on-line U that serves A Lot of military but a friend got her doctorate in about 16mo - all on-line. (she already had her bachelors tho)
No, there are still careers in echelons of supply which have to do with obtaining new vessels, mothballing ships, and returning ships to service which obviously are not combat fields, and which work with civilians in the Department of the Navy more than other military personnel.
Some of the medical fields probably don’t deploy overseas due to the size of the equipment.
But mostly, the military deploys and offloads noncombat duties to civilian contractors.
It isn’t a charity. Serving isn’t a right, either.
But if women are doing that then that means men can't get those shore billets and instead have to deploy at sea. And isn't that your original complaint?
As I mentioned (had you bothered to read) the billets I am talking about never deploy. They are largely in procurement and in vessel storage, with a few esoteric medical fields throw in.
There are people at Bethesda who are never likely to serve at any other facility.
I've never been in the Navy but I find it hard to believe that there are any jobs in the Navy that never deploy. Isn't that what the Navy does? Go overseas?
I can understand that there are jobs in the Navy that have positions in the U.S. that don't deploy. Those are the ones you complained that women are taking up, preventing men from being able to stay home.
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