I’ve served on fast attack subs and ballistic subs. I have no words to express how absurd I think that the idea of women serving on subs is. It is bad enough now having women serve in the Navy. As a retired senior officer, I had to deal with the fact that women have a far higher absentee rate than males due to “hormonal” problems. The pregnancy rate, even among officers, is a huge problem. Most of them are single mothers. Every ship on which I served with women would make the love boat look tame. There is more screwing going on in a mixed crew auxiliary ship in the Navy than in a Bangkok brothel. I can’t even begin to list the number of divorces I have had to deal with over these mixed crew experiments. It is one gawd awful mess. What is really and truly aggravating is that if you want to make a career out of the Navy, you don’t dare say anythingnegative about women serving in the Navy. It you do, you’ll never get promoted.
Someday, I hope we'll wake up. Unless I'm appointed dictator, we'll still be battling this crap for years, or unless the repugs wake up, (LOL) We've cut off our funding of the RNC completely, donate directly to conservative candidates. LOL, I'm dreaming, I know. Elect me as your dictator. We will solve our problems in under a year if I'm dictator!
You know this idea came from a Skimmer it the originator served at all.
I made it through six ships with male crews only before I finally got to a ship with women. Thank God it was my last ship. The best way to describe it was like being in high school again, with all the attendant drama. The esprit de corps from my previous ships just wasn’t there. It’s hard to form a real team when 3/4 of the crew is competing for the favors of the other 1/4. They certainly wouldn’t be doing the sub force any favors putting women aboard.
Let me guess...it was all due to a deficiency in your ability to lead.
Hey, I'm an expert on bull$hit like that. I was an Air Defense Artillery officer, whose motto is:
We Eat Our Young.
My last job in the Army was Battery Commander in the HQs Command at Fort Bliss. There were so many women that got pregnant it was ridiculous. I never did like the idea of separate standards for PT tests...after all, it was the effin' Army!
I feel your pain and know exactly what you are talking about. I am a female and served on a ship as a YNC.
Marking 2 read in AM when I can laugh without waking up my guests!