I wonder how many bubbleheads were involved in this decision making process. My guess is none.
This is an absolute disaster in the making. It will do NOTHING to improve the war fighting readiness of US submarines, and statistics in fact PROVE that the opposite has occurred on all other co-ed sea going platforms. What then is the point? This is obviously PC BS!!
One guaranteed result of this is that there will be an exodus of highly qualified extremely competent submariners from the force. Submarine life is incredibly stressful as it is. This decision will force many good men to simply leave, rather than tolerate such an increase in hostility and antagonism. It’s a cost/benefit calculation....and many will just come to the conclusion that it’s simply not worth it anymore.
BTW...the idea that we can correct human nature and biology by fiat is a purely socialistic and insane one.
Maybe the idea came from here.
Just like our post secondary educational establishment.