[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”.

[COBOL2Java]

[FrankR]

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

[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.

[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

[Last Dakotan]

In before the pregnancy.

[hattend]

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

"Tap into"...indeed!

[WKUHilltopper]

Loading a torpedo into a tube, no doubt, will have a new meaning now.

[JayAr36]

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.

[Jim from C-Town]

I can see no downside to this idea. /S/

[drypowder]

aquatic babies ahoy!