Enlisted Women to Join Sub Crews Starting in 2016

Military.com ^ | July 28, 2014 | Johanna Somers

[QT3.14]

The Department of the Navy plans to add enlisted women crewmembers to seven Ohio-class submarines starting in 2016 and to four Virginia-class attack submarines beginning in 2020.

"I think this is just the next step in a process that started a number of years ago to tap into a talented part of the Navy to help run very sophisticated vessels, and to me that's a real huge advantage that the Navy is capitalizing on," said U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District.

"... Women sailors do a great job on surface ships. They have been doing it for a long time, and obviously, with good planning and accommodation, I think the submarine force stands to gain from having women serve in the enlisted rank as well."

[QT3.14]

Opportunities for enlisted women are changing because in 2013 the DoD retracted the 1994 Direct Ground Combat Definition and Assignment Rule, which excluded women from being assigned "to units below the brigade level whose primary mission was to engage in direct combat on the ground."

Now that the barriers are down, in the name of equality when is Congress going subject females to the draft?

[ogen hal]

Interesting times ahead in the shared beds and in sailors’ precruise discussions with their spouses.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Does Joe know that one of the three legs of our nuclear deterrent is on board submarines? Oh, never mind.

[Bogey78O]

And when the first romantic triangle causes an issue... then what?

[mfish13]

Subs will have to pop up every now and then to unload the babies.

[AU72]

Will give a whole new meaning to the term “hot racking”.

[dfwgator]

Well now you don’t have to have members of the opposite sex to have “romantic triangles.”

[COBOL2Java]

[FrankR]

Does the command “dive, dive, dive” change to “go down, go down, go down”? ;)

[TurboZamboni]

Equal responsibilities for equal rights was never part of the feminazi equation.

[tbpiper]

One of my all time favorites.

[fieldmarshaldj]

...and 9 months later...

[sickoflibs]

Its party time!

Coming in future :
‘Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand alarmed at the number of rapes on US Navy submarines demands investigations by independent investigators and rulings independent judges, says the military can not be trusted to discipline their own’

Just wait

[Dilbert San Diego]

There have been some cases of girls getting pregnant somehow on Navy ship deployments. I think the same could happen on a submarine. There’s something about people being in close quarters which pulls the trigger on it.

[detective]

Hundreds of sexual harassment cases in the making. When sex inevitably occurs the lawyers will be unleashed and peoples careers will be ruined.

[detective]

The old joke comes to mind:

Q. What is long and hard and filled with seamen?

A. A submarine.

[yuleeyahoo]

The males involved will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the UCMJ.

[discostu]

Probably the same way they already handle it. One of the jokes of the submarine force is “200 men go out, 100 couples come back”.

[BwanaNdege]

In related news, I have just patented a “Subsurface Crew-Ejection Capsule” capable of being launched from a torpedo tube.

It will allow pregnant female enlisted crew members to be able to leave the boat while on patrol.

/sarc