[rottndog]

There have been some cases of girls getting pregnant somehow on Navy ship deployments.

Try 30-40% of women on surface ships get pregnant and must be transferred off or miss deployments. This leaves ships undermanned...the men then have to step in and carry the extra load.

On Submarines, this will be disastrous. It's hard enough to fully man a boat as it is now. After awhile, retention of men well drop like a stone. The Submarine force will be far worse off.

[vetvetdoug]

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.

[QT3.14]

Getting pregnant is one thing. But, it is my understanding that women cannot serve aboard a ship after their 20th week of pregnancy or serve in a forward-deployed location.

Does this mean a pregnancy test before deployment on a sub to make sure they are not at week 20?