We will just have to agree to disagree whether or not young girls should be put in these kind of positions.
I think this incident proves without a doubt that the girl lost the fight and that Mayo lost his life because she lost control of the weapon to the perp who then used it to kill Mayo. Surely we can agree on that much?!
We may be gaining a little though because MAYBE, just MAYBE, the Navy has learned from Seaman Mayo’s death that weak little girls standing quarterdeck watches “can” get sailors killed because up against a strong male attacker/terrorist they are defenseless ergo so is the billion dollar ship.
Your continuing argument that the strength of the girl in this incident has nothing to do with Mayo’s death and should not be discussed or considered and could’ve happened to anybody and most naval ships have no big strong men on them are not persuasive to me and seem demonstrative of typical PC mentality. Namely, the PC crowd loves to say in situations like this “look, this is something that is not even permissible to be discussed because you are racist, a homophobe or gender biased to even bring it up”. As Ben Carson says, we have to get over not talking about issues just because The Left starts throwing a hissy fit and slinging personal insults.
Lastly, since you so far have shared little about your experience on this subject, and I have shared mine in detail, I have to presume my experience in the Navy is just as compelling as yours.
Never once did I state that this woman’s lack of upper body strength had nothing to do with PO2 Mayo death. What I said was that many men would have been equally unable to defend themselves when presented with a surprise assault at 11:30 at night on a ship’s quarterdeck. Nothing more, nothing less. With your wide experience in the Navy, which ships have you served on that could man a quarterdeck 24 hours a day six day in a row, with linebacker size male petty officers. That seems to be the point that you are trying to make. In the 30 years I spent in our Navy, on eight ships, only the carrier could might have been able do that, but probably not at both brows. Never stood QD watches when I was an enlisted snipe. As a Junior officer I have stood probably hundred or so QD watches. That enough experience for you. This is not “PC” BS, merely facts as I have seen them.