Posted on 05/28/2015 11:41:44 AM PDT by QT3.14
A second submariner pleaded guilty Wednesday to sharing videos of female officers undressing for a shower, continuing a case that a prosecutor calls a "black eye" for the Navy's integration of women into the nation's sub fleet.
Electronics technician Joseph Bradley entered his guilty pleas in a court-martial and was sentenced to 30 days' confinement and a reduction in rank.
Bradley received the videos after they were secretly recorded by another sailor aboard the USS Wyoming nuclear submarine based at Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia, prosecutors say.
Bradley admitted in a plea agreement to sharing the images with other sailors.
(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...
Women take showers? Who knew?
Best case scenario with both sexes on subs is that all the men are respectful non-creeps, they will still resent the hell out of the women. Subs are already cramped with little privacy possible. How many men don’t get to shower after a 12hr shift because they were unlucky enough to have personal time conflict with “women’s bathing” time. How many men are cramped into smaller quarters so that the women can have their own area. Once the navy gets it’s 20% women sub they are shooting for, how long until you have a pregnant sailor on a sub? Anybody doubt the man will be punished worse than the woman.
If the navy must have females on subs, why not an all female sub crew?
I've been on a nuke sub, some of the food, mayonnaise for instance, comes in jars.
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ok... took me a bit, but I got it...
as a bit of advice -
you know those wide rubber bands that come on vegetables?
Save ‘em. When you get a tough jar lid, put the band around the lid and it will come off far more easily.
how long until you have a pregnant sailor on a sub?
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There have already been female sailors who got pregnant on US Naval vessels...
don’t remember if they were on subs, but when the women had no choice about whether or not they got assigned onto ships, the only way off was to be pregnant...
and so they did..just to get shore duty again...
I think you muffed that post.
I heard one of the women officers quoted as saying she couldn’t look her men in the eye and do her job, because she didn’t know which of her men had seen the video.
I do not condone or excuse this behavior at all. However, is a woman naval officer really so delicate that she is squeamish that somebody saw her naked??? How the hell will she function in an actual war theater?? Maybe such a person is not really cut out for command????? Am I full of it to bring this up???
That scene was hysterical!
OMG I see what you are getting at, the old joke about how to tell if a girl is a natural blond..........
Make him walk the plank...at periscope depth.
Well what the heck did they expect from something that was long, hard and filled with seamen?
If I get pregnant on sea duty, when will I have to leave the ship?
Pregnant servicewomen may remain onboard up to the 20th week of pregnancy while the ship is in port. A servicewoman discovered to be pregnant while underway/deployed should be transferred ashore as soon as possible given the constraints of the ship’s location, current mission, next port call, health of the servicewoman and/or unborn child(ren), etc. Under no circumstance shall a pregnant servicewoman remain onboard past the 20th week of pregnancy.
A pregnant servicewoman may continue to serve aboard ships only while in port or serve during short underway periods onboard a ship (e.g. local operations including, but not limited to, changes in ship’s berth, ammunition anchorages, and transits to and from local shipyards) provided an evacuation capability exists and the time for medical evacuation to atreatment facility capable of evaluating and stabilizing obstetric emergencies is less than six hours; this requirement includes TAD orders. The six-hour rule is not intended to allow pregnant women to operate routinely at sea, but rather to provide the CO flexibility during short underway periods, as described above.
They even have a maternity uniform!
More....
Baby Aboard: The Navy Responds to High Rates of Unplanned Pregnancies Among Sailors
“Operation Petticoat” was never like this!
That took about 30 seconds to sink in then I laughed my butt off. I’m in my office so I had to pretend to be coughing. Lol.
Here is the New York Times.
36 Women Pregnant Aboard a Navy Ship That Served in Gulf
AP
Published: April 30, 1991
SAN DIEGO, April 29— Thirty-six crew members of the supply ship Acadia were pregnant and had to be transferred during the ship’s deployment to the Persian Gulf, naval officials say.
More than half became pregnant after the ship was under way, but a Navy spokesman, Lieut. Comdr. Jeff Smallwood, said there were no indications of improper fraternization between men and women on the ship.
“These women have a right to get pregnant,” Commander Smallwood said. “The conclusion somebody is jumping to is that the Acadia is a love boat, and that’s not the case.”
“Irreconcilable differences.” Grant the Navy submarine units a no-fault divorce from women. What’s good for the goose...
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