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Pentagon to Allow Women to Serve Aboard Navy Submarines
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Posted on 02/23/2010 4:57:11 PM PST by Bottom_Gun

The Pentagon will lift a decades-old policy that prohibits women from serving aboard Navy submarines.

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon has moved to lift a decades-old policy that prohibits women from serving aboard Navy submarines, part of a gradual reconsideration of women's roles in a military fighting two wars whose front lines can be anywhere.

At issue is the end of a policy that kept women from serving aboard the last type of ship off-limits to them. The thinking was that the close quarters aboard subs would make coed service difficult to manage.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates notified Congress in a letter signed Friday that the Navy intends to repeal the ban on women sailors on subs. Congress has 30 days to weigh in.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhodod; cluelessindc; militarywomen; pheromone; pheromones; submarine; usnavy
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To: Pan_Yan

Oh....I said Bubbleheads....not Bobbing head...


41 posted on 02/23/2010 6:19:49 PM PST by rottndog (WOOF!!!)
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To: MikeWUSAF
I could literally smell them and I don’t mean their perfume.

If it was that strong for you in open air, imagine what recycled air in an enclosed space will do. Wow

42 posted on 02/23/2010 6:19:50 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: AFreeBird

The women were just as bad as the guys when it came to unauthorized sexual activity. Girls who you would never think would cheat on their husband or boyfriend back home were getting their fair share...

They called it “bunker love.”


43 posted on 02/23/2010 6:25:22 PM PST by TSgt (RE-ELECT NOBODY - VOTE THEM ALL OUT!)
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To: MikeWUSAF
No BS, one Marine spent a year as a single Dad while his wife deployed. He was a great Dad, he was on my base soccer team and the kids came to the practices and games. Wife came home, told him she found her “soul mate” in Iraq and divorced him. No worrier on the subs, just before deployment, females that do not want to deploy can get pregnant and take their million dollar nuke training on the open market.
44 posted on 02/23/2010 6:32:17 PM PST by OldGoatCPO
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To: MikeWUSAF
Yea, I imagine the smell of men would be just as strong for the girls, probably more so since they generally have better sense of smell, than the guys.

Yea, this is a bad idea.

45 posted on 02/23/2010 6:33:39 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: MikeWUSAF

In Saudi we had to run along the flightline, we had to pass to female heads. We smelled them too and it was not perfume.


46 posted on 02/23/2010 6:34:54 PM PST by OldGoatCPO
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To: Bottom_Gun

What does Gates and Mullen’s have against the Navy?


47 posted on 02/23/2010 6:36:04 PM PST by OldGoatCPO
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To: Bottom_Gun
Destroying the military is a big part of the America-hating left's agenda to destroy traditional America.

Congratulations, America, on your "historic" election.


48 posted on 02/23/2010 6:38:00 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

Just what do the wives and girlfriends of the submariners think about this policy change?


49 posted on 02/23/2010 6:40:06 PM PST by hal ogen
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To: Bottom_Gun

So let’s see— take an Ohio class SSBN (submersible ship ballistic nuclear) a missile boat. These have 24 missile tubes each with a missile tipped with 8 multiple reentry warheads (MRV) each one of which is 475 kilotons, or 24 times the tonnage of Fat Man (Hiroshima atomic bomb). So that’s 8x24x475kilotons=91,200 kilotons of firepower. You put into this submarine a mixture of single, married and otherwise attached mixed crew of both sexes and you place them in 400 plus feet underwater. Mix generously during 3 month patrol as part of our nuclear deterrent triad (bombers, land missiles, subs). This is NOT a carrier, it is so sophisticated that any ONE little thing can go wrong and the vessel is LOST, immediately. The Israelis abandoned any attempt of this sort of thing, and also of an all female crew, even switched out (Blue and Gold crews both all female). The discipline effects of this have been well documented. Anyone within the submarine community (who were not asked, I assure you) will tell you HOW BAD THIS IS. We should all write to the appropriate congress people. This is NO place for social experimentation. It was Patsy Schroeder that started all this, and it has weakened our readiness— period. That is all.. (family of submariners from before WWII) This is simply insane. An entire crew with all the females with synchronized PMS?!! No other country does this, except maybe New Zealand. Incredible. And what are our enemies doing? Not this you can be sure.


50 posted on 02/23/2010 6:44:50 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Bottom_Gun
Terrible idea as was the pc decision to allow women to serve aboard ships.

If the libs, NAGs and pc elite desire for women to serve in these fields, why not assign them a ship or sub "for women only."

Of course, that will never happen just as the fire departments do not assign an all woman fire trucks - women cannot carry the entire load and must depend on men for the "heavy lifting."

To put women on board a sub is just a terrible idea for both the women, men, wives, husbands and "significant others."

51 posted on 02/23/2010 6:45:17 PM PST by zerosix (A)
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To: hal ogen
Just what do the wives and girlfriends of the submariners think about this policy change?

LOL, I was wondering what the fathers of the Miss Piglettes who want to serve on Navy subs think about it.

52 posted on 02/23/2010 6:48:24 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: zerosix

Obama is trying hard to ruin our Military (all arms) and I believe he is being successful. Open queers in the barracks, women serving on surface warships and now submarines? WTF is wrong with our “go along to get along” Top Brass?
This is not to mention the cancelation of vital programs such as the F-22 and others.
When do the unisex showers start? (Maybe I’ll re-up!) LOL!


53 posted on 02/23/2010 6:57:54 PM PST by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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To: Kickass Conservative

“I’ve heard that when a group of Women are together in a confined space for a period (pardon the pun) of time, their Menstrual Cycles synchronize. If that’s true, the Ruskies and Chicoms had better hope they don’t start trouble during the wrong time of the month.”

MadTV predicted this years ago, in the movie spoof “Crimson Tide 2”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGqwh_0gUvY


54 posted on 02/23/2010 6:58:18 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
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To: MrPiper

Once women get on these subs, I doubt anyone will do much sleeping. Egads!


55 posted on 02/23/2010 7:09:00 PM PST by whatisthetruth
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To: BnBlFlag
WTF is wrong with our “go along to get along” Top Brass?

In Catholicism (traditional) it has been observed that a human state called "Diabolical Disorientation" can occur. Evidently this has infected many leaders in civil government and the military.

56 posted on 02/23/2010 7:18:12 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: Bottom_Gun

Morale is going to sink to a whole new low!


57 posted on 02/23/2010 7:34:12 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine
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To: molybdenum

The Train of Insanity continues to roll on. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!


58 posted on 02/23/2010 7:35:37 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine
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To: Bottom_Gun
DAMN THE TORPEDOES (or bumper bullets)FULL SPEED AHEAD.

59 posted on 02/23/2010 7:36:13 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: rottndog

Just like our post secondary educational establishment.


60 posted on 02/23/2010 7:39:07 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine
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