In this reverse parallel universe, I have a feeling the Navy will award her a medal, when in reality she should be discharged as unfit for duty or even charged with negligent homicide.
Get off of it.
I believe woman should not be in some of the positions that the military is placing them for obvious reasons. But this womnan in no way “surrendered” her weapon. Do not insult her.
She struggled with the perp who took it away from her.
We do not know enough to say that this perp, who may have been large, pwoerful, and trained...we just do not know...could have also taken it away from a male sailor.
Fact is, he got the gun and Mayo pushed the girl to the deck and was shot. But all of that held this guy up long enough for the other members of the watch to then cut the perp down.
This happened a years back with a female cop in PA; she stopped to check out two unsavory characters that had an accident with a motorcycle. They disarmed her and took her car, which they subsequently crashed. A trucker comes to the aid of what he thinks is a wrecked cop, and they carjack him - forcing him to drive them to Newark NJ - where they kill him. She lives, trucker dies...
I’d be less opposed to women in these roles if they were dying from it; they’d look at other options.
The article says he disarmed her. How do you know how it happened, or what 'disarmed' means? Does the Navy give every person standing a quarterdeck watch a sidearm?
Female petty officer surrenders her weapon to a crazed killer who then kills the man who came to her defense.
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I went to the story, but I did not see that it was a woman, so I guess you got that info from another story.
Interesting. Because as soon as we heard this story on TV, I turned to my husband and said, “I’ll bet the officer who was overpowered was a woman”.
Women should not be in such positions. Political correctness got this brave man killed. Disgusting.