Posted on 05/15/2015 11:14:04 AM PDT by C19fan
The Navy is proceeding with its plan to increase the number of women in the service to 25 percent with a similar goal of attaining that ratio in each ship and squadron, the vice chief of naval operations said Thursday. Women currently make up about 17 percent of the Navy, said Adm. Michelle Howard, who made a stop in Honolulu on her way to the International Maritime Defense Exhibition in Singapore, where she will meet with her counterparts from other nations in the region.
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>>My father was on the Marblehead, he described a situation that needed men, torn twisted metal, men and bodies that needed hauling up ladders, chaos and bloodshed all over the ship, heavy temporary repairs desperately needing to be done quickly, fire hoses, all kinds of things that needed upper body strength as the systems and order, and machinery was destroyed or failing.
I served on a submarine in peacetime. But, things break. Fires and flooding happens. When they do, you need people who can manhandle heavy objects up and down ladders and through doors that are 18” off the deck.
Nah. The rest just are threatened by men and feel like they have to prove themselves physically equal to them—which they can’t. All these women fail to meet basic standards.
The admiral’s first name is Michelle.
Active Duty ping.
I agree with one caveat; if other nations accept the PC nonsense for their military’s then the mess will cancel out. If we are the only PC military we are dead.
Are you suggesting the likes of Baltimore Mayor and Prosecutor”
“the uber-competent but young and beautiful woman protagonist,”
The answer to your question may be found within the selective service system website; please check-out the first question in the on-line registration page.
https://www.sss.gov/RegVer/wfRegistration.aspx
There has to be a reason for its inclusion
Marblehead and other American warships then joined with those of the Royal Netherlands Navy and the Royal Australian Navy to patrol the waters surrounding the Netherlands East Indies and to screen Allied shipping moving south from the Philippines. On the night of 24 January 1942, Marblehead covered the withdrawal of a force of Dutch and American warships after they had attacked, with devastating effect, an enemy convoy off Balikpapan. Six days later, in an attempt to repeat this success, the force departed Surabaja, Java, to intercept an enemy convoy concentration at Kendari. The Japanese convoy, however, sailed soon after, and the Allied force changed course, anchoring in Bunda Roads on 2 February. On the 4th, the ships steamed out of Bunda Roads and headed for another Japanese convoy sighted at the southern entrance to the Makassar Straits. At 0949, 36 enemy bombers were sighted closing in on the formation from the east.
In the ensuing Battle of Makassar Strait, Marblehead successfully maneuvered through three attacks. After the third an enemy plane spiraled toward the cruiser, but her gunners splashed it. The next minute a fourth wave of seven bombers released bombs at Marblehead. Two were direct hits and a third a near miss close aboard the port bow causing severe underwater damage. Fires swept the ship as she listed to starboard and began to settle by the bow. Her rudder jammed, Marblehead, continuing to steam at full speed, circled to port. Her gunners kept firing, while damage control crews fought the fires and helped the wounded. By 1100, the fires were under control. Before noon the enemy planes departed, leaving the damaged cruiser with 15 dead or mortally wounded and 84 seriously injured.
Marblehead 's engineers soon released the rudder angle to 9° left, and at 1255, she retired to Tjilatjap, steering by working the engines at varying speeds. She made Tjilatjap with a forward draft of 30 ft (9 m), aft 22 ft (7 m). Unable to be docked there, her worst leaks were repaired and she put to sea again on the 13th. Some of her wounded crew were taken off the ship to be cared for by Dr Corydon M. Wassell; he received the Navy Cross for protecting from capture by the invading Japanese. When the ship left Tjilatjap it was on the first leg of a voyage of more than 9,000 mi (14,000 km) in search of complete repairs.
Still steering with her engines, she made Trincomalee, Ceylon on the 21st. Repairs could not be made there or anywhere in India for several weeks. So Marblehead departed for South Africa on 2 March. After touching at Durban and Port Elizabeth, Marblehead arrived at Simonstown on 24 March. There she underwent extensive repairs and on 15 April sailed for New York. Steaming via Recife, Brazil, she finally arrived in New York on 4 May, completing a journey of over 16,000 miles from where she was damaged in action and immediately entered drydock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
A few years ago I was at a bar talking to 2 Navy Chief friends about this, when I asked them how they would make up for the weakness of the females if a missile hit their ship and all that was going on, their answer was that they would call for more men to go to the area to help out, and I blurted out in exasperation that “you fools, another missile hit the other end of the ship, the battle is still raging, the fires are burning, the death toll is rising, the ship is in danger of being lost, there are no “extras” to spare anywhere.
On a ship, especially today as crews are smaller, every ounce of manpower counts, to replace our seamen with smaller weaker, less aggressive and capable versions of them, is insanity.
Where have you been for the past 25 years?
A new strategy for force reduction...
Women 25%, Homosexual 25%, illegal alien 25% and other 25% well they will just go AWOL!
Does that include newborn infants?
That’s a bit like saying, in early october of 1929, “I don’t think this stock market thing has much steam at this point.”
Men dressed as women or what?
Oh, happy days. An admiral named Michelle. I’m sure she got there through dedication and hard work and exceptional leadership skills.
I’m sure FReepers are intelligent enough that I don’t need a sarc tag for that.
My own experiences with female officers has me thinking negatively on them all.
“Are you suggesting the likes of Baltimore Mayor and Prosecutor””
Whatever they did to get into their positions seems unrelated to competence. I’d suggest it was a who-they-knew and/or who-they-blew.
If Hollywood cast them, they’d not only be beautiful people, but articulate, clever, witty and great moms of special needs children. They’d perform each of these roles without interfering with the other demands on their time, and they’d still be home in time to host a seven course dinner party for eight close and multi-cultural friends. (I have to stop now. I’m getting ill.)
Well, they will need maternity wards on the carriers.
“What do you think is good about it? “
The characters and the twisting plot.
But I led you astray. Here is a link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justified_(TV_series)
I was in military intelligence, which is very female-heavy, due to it being “sexy” and one of the best places to work in the service. Almost all of our female officers were failed or burned-out school teachers.
Thanks for your service brother. I am sorry you were exposed to a hostile work environment.
I spent my years in the infantry (2PPCLI), then I made the mistake of going airforce for a few years. I think a guy would be far better off joining the airforce with no combat arms experience. The brotherhood just wasn’t there.
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