Posted on 02/24/2010 1:04:01 PM PST by Bulldawg Fan
The military isn't asking, it's telling.
In a letter to Congress last week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates notified lawmakers that women will be allowed to serve on submarines for the first time in the Navy's 110-year history, ABC News reported. Congress has 30 days to pass a law to stop or delay the policy, but if it remains silent, women could be aboard Navy submarines in 18 months.
The lifting of the ban removes one of the last glass ceilings for women in the military.
Unless Congress steps in, women could be serving on Navy submarines for the first time in the service's history in about 18 months. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus told ABC on Tuesday that allowing women to serve on subs is "a great idea and the right thing to do."
Women have been assigned to surface ships for the past 17 years but were kept off subs in fear that the small space would create challenges. For years, the Navy said it was too expensive to refit submarines with separate living quarters so women could serve.
Tracy Moran, a columnist for USA Today, said the Navy should wait to repeal the ban until its ships were ready to accommodate them. "Allowing female officers to serve on the boomers, as the panel recommended, would be a mistake at this point," she wrote. "Instead, let the Navy first develop vessels that can accommodate co-ed crews, and let them develop a career path for women. This may take many years, but doing it correctly will be worth the wait."
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oh I thought “hot racking” was what I wrote about with the ovens above!
Some might get pregnant during the time at sea......soldiers get pregnant all the time in combat zones in the Army. Quick ticket home for mom, no equality for dad.
I read this wrong at first. Me bad. Very bad.
Politicans are crazy....I sure wouldn’t want to be the only female on a sub for 18 months under the sea’s...but there is probably some idiotic young woman that would love it..totally not necessary..
Third question.....Is there room on a sub for a maternity ward?
When you allow gay men in the military you’re telling straight men who don’t want the potential of unwanted sexual interest to “just deal with it”. I say men and women share crew quarters and the women just “deal with it”.
When you allow gay men in the military you’re telling straight men who don’t want the potential of unwanted sexual interest to “just deal with it”. I say men and women share crew quarters and the women just “deal with it”.
The very same. Equal work means equal pay, right? Mmmm, mmmm, mmmmm.
Hey baby, have I got a submarine for you!
Let’s go ply the deep blue sea and see if we can raise some waves.
If this was truly about the "glass ceiling" then they would allow all women subs. This is about further perverting the military by throwing more distractions in. God help us.
So today officers get their own bunk? I am guessing it is still in a common area though? On a ship there is plenty of room for separate gender quarters, but on a sub no square inch of space is wasted.
Big mistake. When you have a lot of men working together you get a lot of what men do when they are together - breaking each other’s stones. All is good-natured camaraderie and it helps make a stressful situation tolerable.
Add women to the mix, and it’s disaster. VERY FEW of them can take the friendly banter and will whimper and cry and run to their local EEO officer and say “they’re harassing me!”
"Aye, Aye Sir!".
“”I am furious that i am not allowed to be on Latrine Duty for months at a time, in the enlisted men’s barracks!” It’s discrimination against women in the military!”
I have heard of Buiker Chicks pulling the train, These gals may pull the sub.
This is NOT going to sit well with a lot of the submariners wives. This is not good.
Officers get little cabins, typically holding three.
Most crewmen get their own bunks.
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