[rottndog]

This is total BS....there is NO possible way the Navy can fully man (no pun intended) a submarine with a 100% female crew. You would have to have fully qualified women from all ratings from E-1 all the way up to Commander. It would take a decade or more of a fully integrated submarine service training pipeline to produce such women. They don’t exist now, and will not by the specified 2015 date.

And, this will ultimately end in disaster. EVERY US Navy seagoing platform that has allowed women to serve has had a 30%-50% pregnancy rate—pregnancies occurring both on and off ship. Pregnant women can NOT serve on submarine, or any other combatant vessel for that matter. The instant a medical determination of pregnancy exists, that woman has to be transferred to a shore billet. What you will have is a boat that is insufficiently manned to deploy. Ain’t gonna happen.

And, BTW, have served on a submarine, I will state as fact that MOST women simply don’t have the physical stamina to do the job.

[mylife]

The timeline is just the first problem.
The most senior officer among this women is a Lt.
Who gets fast tracked to CMDR SS in 3 years? LOL

[xrmusn]

And, BTW, have served on a submarine, I will state as fact that MOST women simply don’t have the physical stamina to do the job.
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Well, we can definitely name this the

USS FIRST SWOB

it would be the protoype

Better be careful if the galley demands an unusual amount of turkey basters.

In the ‘old days’ we weren’t allowed personal radios or other electric devices.

Would imagine a whole compartment would be needed to store the ‘other’ batteries....

[USNBandit]

You are correct. The first women go into submarines this year and three years later they are going to be running a boat by themselves. If I was the CO (which I can't be because I'm a man) and they gave me a crew where nobody had more than three years of experience, I would refuse to go to sea.

You need experienced people to teach new sailors, a Chief of the Boat and a Chief's mess to run things, diving officers, a good Chief Engineer. None of those exist with only three years in submarines. You may be able to get a competent CHENG from the nuke surface fleet, but she isn't going to know anything about making a submarine go other than making steam with the reactor.