Navy Set to Crew Subs with Female Sailors

Navy Times | 10/2/09

[pabianice]

Link Only.

PC rules!

[pabianice]

The many comments are interesting.

[Non-Sequitur]

I would be very surprised if it actually happens.

[StandUpChuck]

Nine month tour of duty.

[2banana]

Hots cots and hot bunking will have a whole new meaning

[NativeNewYorker]

[colorado tanker]

This would give the term “hot-bunking” a whole new meaning.

[Recon Dad]

They need an Obstetrician on call.

[ArrogantBustard]

Looks like they’re doin’ something painful to the electrician and the chief.

[Army Air Corps]

Must...resist...one liners...

[Incorrigible]

 

 

[ejonesie22]

Figure it would be Ray Mabus pushing this.

Sorry America, but MS feels your pain.

[OBXWanderer]

Nine month tour of duty.

OB-GYN clinic and doc aboard a boomer,,,,LOL

[BobinIL]

The mile deep club??? “oop’s did I say that?”

[anymouse]

Whoa, down parascope men.

[anymouse]

[RatBastage]

This story is unbelievable without pictures of female soldiers.

[GOYAKLA]

I wonder what the hydrophone recordings will be sold for on the black market?

[mdmathis6]

I know ....I know.....I’m having trouble resisting....

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Awaiting the book: “Twenty Thousand Licks Under the Sea”.

[SlowBoat407]

Dive!!! Dive!!! Dive!!!

[mylife]

Heyup

[mylife]

They will be given special treatment and it will lead to a rift in the crew

[ColdWater]

This story is unbelievable without pictures of female soldiers.

Sailors.

[mbarker12474]

Female soilder sailor:

[Non-Sequitur]

I think that the Village People like the gender of the crew just the way it is.

[snowsislander]

The Kenyan Clown intends to destroy our military.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Better?

[dusttoyou]

Will REALLY be hot-bunking.

[YankeeReb]

All kidding aside, this will be a major disaster. Once a female is found to be pregnant she must be rotated off the ship. We just had an instance of med-evacing a sailor off an at sea sub, the sub must surface and the person must be taken out on a gurney.

Lets say the woman gets pregnant and she doesn't want to go ashore because she won't be showing till after the deployment... Want to bet they'll be huge lawsuits should the baby be born with birth defects. It's not only radiation you are dealing with on a sub, it's lead from the batteries, potential elevated CO2 levels, possible hull breaches (USS Thresher) ...and this is during peacetime.

This is a terrible idea so leave it to "The One's" administration to come up with this.

[Oratam]

The photographer in the foreground on right appears to be saying “I am not worthy! I am not worthy!”

[babygene]

Couldn’t they just have a few all female subs? Oh, never mind....

[Buckeye McFrog]

I would be very surprised if it actually happens.

The Obama Administration seems all about taking bad ideas and FORCING them to happen

[Neidermeyer]

related article from first gulf war ,, April 30 , 1991

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1062342.html

[Buckeye McFrog]

we’re getting close to a second page and so far no remarks about torpedoes being loaded in the tube, ready for launch. I’m proud of y’all!

[RatBastage]

Much better,

After staring at that picture for about 5 minutes, I just noticed the camera man on the lower right. Perv!

[lilycicero]

OH YOU!!!!

[swarthyguy]

Check out the chick on the far right with her marching “sandal” heels!

[Question_Assumptions]

The problem with an all female crew, just about anywhere in the military, is one of strength. It’s a nasty subject that the politically correct love to pretend doesn’t exist but women are generally not as strong as men because they are not as big as men, carry around more body fat as a proportion of their weight, and don’t have as much natural testosterone. That creates problems because working with big heavy machinery and doing things like damage control favor the strong.

[swarthyguy]

Is this how you raise your periscope, sir?

My, is that torpedo armed?

[NativeNewYorker]

Couldn’t they just have a few all female subs? Oh, never mind....

Recall that women in close quarters have their menstrual cycles sync up. Then imagine a crew of women "at that time of the month" with nukes...

[montomike]

I’ll take your duty day for a poke.

Gus “Bubblehead” McRae

[OB1kNOb]

I’m not sure why a female sailor would want any part of a big tube full of seamen.

[ArmstedFragg]

Hopefully, they’ll keep track of menstral cycles. Picture life on a sub where twenty percent of the crew has PMS at the same time. We’d have to lock up the ‘launch’ button.

[ArmstedFragg]

See 43. All great minds....

Yours is better written, though.

[Snickering Hound]

Shower time for Machinist Mate Bridget will be very popular.

The shower in a sub is tiny so you have to strip in the corridor and then get in the shower. When you're done you reverse the process.

[RSmithOpt]

What's long and hard and has seamen in it?

'We all live in the yellow submarine.'

[dfwgator]

Dive!!! Dive!!! Dive!!!

*Ahem* I wonder what kind of "diving" you were referring to there.

[Shethink13]

Hopefully, they’ll keep track of menstral cycles. Picture life on a sub where twenty percent of the crew has PMS at the same time. We’d have to lock up the ‘launch’ button.

Given the scientific fact that women who live together tend to cycle together, your scenario is not far-fetched. Yow!

[AreaMan]

From the article:

"Having commanded a mixed gender surface combatant, I am very comfortable addressing integrating women into the submarine force," said Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead in a statement to Military.com. "I am familiar with the issues as well as the value of diverse crews."

The unfortunately named Adm. Roughhead let slip the PC "tell"......the value of diverse crews.

WTF? I would hope the military valued ability over diversity.

Hey Adm when did you notice that you stopped being an officer and started being a full time politician?

[SlowBoat407]

*Ahem* I wonder what kind of "diving" you were referring to there.

I wish I could tell you, but the rest of the command was muffled.