Navy's new gender-neutral carriers won't have urinals

CNN ^ | July 11, 2012 | Unattributed

[QT3.14]

Updated at 6:17 p.m. ET] The U.S. Navy's new class of carriers will be the first to go without urinals, a decision made in part to give the service flexibility in accommodating female sailors, the Navy says.

The change heralded by the Gerald R. Ford class of carriers – starting with the namesake carrier due in late 2015 – is one of a number of new features meant to improve sailors' quality of life and reduce maintenance costs, Capt. Chris Meyer said Wednesday.

Omitting urinals lets the Navy easily switch the designation of any restroom – or head, in naval parlance – from male to female, or vice versa, helping the ship adapt to changing crew compositions over time, Meyer said.

[Sporke]

That’s cool. I seem to remember spending a lot of my time making paint chips, and sparks. lol

[OldNavyVet]

Carriers make their own fresh water out of seawater.

s Been like that for a long time.

In my daye, sewage eas carried off in seawater.

[SampleMan]

Saltwater is used in the toilets

[Argus]

Check wind direction, choose your rail and let fly.

Could also use the deck bucket.

[NormsRevenge]

Geesh, whatever happened to peeing over the side? they scared a fish might bite or saltspray might irritate their uhh skin.. bunch of wusses .. yup.

[SampleMan]

All ships make fresh water, and fresh water is always a concern on carriers (nukes not so much), but toilets use seawater.

[super7man]

What’s wrong with having a urinal there and still letting the women use the head.

Haven’t these people been to a Stanford football game?

[USMCPOP]

Would this be the new Sitzen Pissen class carriers?

[QT3.14]

Will there be a Kotex™ dispenser in every head?

Kamo Kombat Kotex?

[bayoung18]

It seems to me like you could put 3 urinals in the same amount of space as two sit downs. On a ship were space is premium can a woman not use a sit down in the same room as a urinal. A room that has 2-3 urinals and a few sit downs is still gender neutral as long as both sex don't occupy at the same time.

[aomagrat]

I hope they all get sticky buns.

[morphing libertarian]

How does a regular toilet force you to sit while urinating. I don’t have urinals in my house and I stand to urinate.

[Carriage Hill]

What are they going to do with all those 0bummer Urinal Cakes in the warehouses?

[Aleya2Fairlie]

I wonder how long the male population is going to let this Liberal nuetering of the male gender continue.

[R. Scott]

The LCUs I served on – some launched in the 1950s – had no urinals. When women joined the crews in the 1970s we had a flip sign on the door of the head. There were no problems.
I sometimes wonder about the men who object to women serving on ships. Did they prefer the company of men and dislike women?

[morphing libertarian]

Haven’t worn out my Jane Fonda one yet.

[Lx]

I’ve never served but look in post #37 and see if these are the ‘women’ you want to serve with?
/s

[Aleya2Fairlie]

Men who have signed their organ donor cards may soon contribute more to the gay agenda than they intend to.

Can’t we stop this lunacy before it destoys us?

[Sudetenland]

Wow, talk about wrongly focused anger. You might want to take a quick look at the make up of Congress during Fords tenure. YOu really blame him for what the Democrat Congress did?

You're right about the egregious and hateful way America treated her former allies, but lay the blame where it belongs, on the Democrats in Congress and their liberal Republican buddies like Jake Javitz, Mark Hatfield, Charles Percy, Bob Packwood, and Lowell Weicker who voted to abrogate their obligations under the Paris Peace Accord.

To blame an unelected, caretaker President for not acting decisively and forcefully to do anything beyond hold the nation together is a bit much. Gerry Ford was just fine for what America needed.