Posted on 07/30/2014 10:02:58 AM PDT by 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."
(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...
In before the pregnancy.
"Tap into"...indeed!
Loading a torpedo into a tube, no doubt, will have a new meaning now.
Leave it to the morons in Congress to pass a law that attempts to change human nature. Can’t you just see it now - an executive comes down to fire and the feminine side says, “No we can’t kill innocents so disobey.”
Also I suppose there will be a OB/GYN assigned.
Look on the bright side, with all those enlisted honeys, who’ll need shore leave ?
I've been onboard submarines, albeit conventional ones, and I'm damned if I can figure out where they'd find the privacy to do it.
I can see no downside to this idea. /S/
aquatic babies ahoy!
Have the NCI watch the women’s bank accounts. I remember several isolated outposts in the USAF where the women after a year’s tour could retire with the money they made.
Even in the USAF for medical specialties, the women would take a week off for their personal problems and the men would have to do double duty the week they were having their monthly visitation. I hated being assigned with women because it meant we were going to have to work likely twice as hard.
Of course, for those sailors who prefer to keep their marriages and careers intact, there is a simple solution involving a certain appendage and its spacial relationship to their pants.
That is at the individual responsibility level, which does not absolve whatever powers that be involved in this idiotic and catastrophic decision.
What is the standard loadout of fish for deployment?
War Time Reserve Mode (WARM) fish....
Does the command “dive, dive, dive” change to “go down, go down, go down”? ;)
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“Blow Negative”
The old joke comes to mind:
Q. What is long and hard and filled with seamen?
A. A submarine.
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Q. Why are camels referred to as “Ships of the Desert”?
A. Because they are filled with Arab semen.
Chief wants you to go aft and see if there are any torpedoes that need polishing.
Not when they have a muzzie commanding officer.
There may even be a subsea stoning with pots and pans.
Served at Campion AFS in Alaska in 1959.
There were NO WOMEN, believe me.
Does this mean a pregnancy test before deployment on a sub to make sure they are not at week 20?
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