Posted on 03/03/2017 7:05:53 AM PST by rktman
A record 16 out of 100 Navy women are reassigned from ships to shore duty due to pregnancy, according to data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group.
That number is up 2 percent from 2015, representing hundreds more who have to cut their deployments short, taxing both their unit’s manpower, military budgets and combat readiness. Further, such increases cast a shadow over the lofty gender integration goals set by former President Barack Obama.
Overall, women unexpectedly leave their stations on Navy ships as much as 50% more frequently to return to land duty, according to documents obtained from the Navy. The statistics were compiled by the Navy Personnel Command at the request of TheDCNF, covering the period from January 2015 to September 2016.
The evacuation of pregnant women is costly for the Navy. Jude Eden, a nationally known author about women in the military who served in 2004 as a Marine deployed to Iraq said a single transfer can cost the Navy up to $30,000 for each woman trained for a specific task, then evacuated from an active duty ship and sent to land. That figure translates into $115 million in expenses for 2016 alone.
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The men have a zero per cent pregnancy rate.
These women just can’t control themselves.
Throw them out.
It would be interesting to follow up and find out how many of these women got an abortion after they got ashore and off of sea duty.
During 18 months on a DDG with 68 women (2000-2001), we averaged one pregnancy per month. Really hurt us when some of those were ‘1 of 1’ NEC.
Lets be fair. Men get pregnant too. /s
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/14/pregnant-man_n_5676845.html
But that really isn’t the issue. The issue is they won’t be available for an deployment and a sailor will have to be taken from another boat to fill the void. Especially if it is in the engineering department. The only have so many billets and the watchbill is planned accordingly. n
Young men and young women on ships equals sex. :-)
I think it’s fine to want to have a family. But it seems to me that if a woman lets it be known she is pregnant then it wouldn’t make sense to deploy her. Put her on some other duty temporarily.
In Obama’s Navy, it was more like, young women and young women on ships equals sex.
Just have “All Gay” ships, problem solved.
The men have a zero per cent pregnancy rate.
= = =
Better factor in the Trannies.
And a lot of em just get busy because deployment isn’t fun and they wanna go home. Well know fact.
We were always shorthanded in the engine room, boiler room, IC/gyro room. Well just about any engineering post. 4 on, 4 off, plus your regular duty. Good times. ;-)
Some women purposely get pregnant to get out of duty that they don’t want. I am a woman Navy veteran and it happened when I was in quite frequently. I was in when you could get out of the service completely and I know women who did just that.
No. “Deployed” (married females, ALWAYS married to a person off of the deploying ship - whose schedule is known 8-10 months in advance (often longer)) do NOT plan on “deploying” pregnant for a 4-6 months overseas deployment.
Yes, there may be a few. What? 10?
And here you reads of hundreds being pulled back from deployment to “go home” and take a shore billet from a male who has go “back out to sea” rather than being stateside with HIS wife and family!
I was a Navy Corpsman as well as my husband. That was pretty standard. They didn’t mind admitting it either.
I was a submarine officer. We were 6 on- 12 off. So it was much better than 4 on 4 off. Before, I was an officer, I was assigned to an aircraft carrier. When it got closer and closer to deployment they got pregnant. Carriers can absorb the man-power loss more than a submarine.
Females on submarines is a bad idea.
Yep
Hmmmmm, Somebody has put the wrong meaning to Ride The WAVEs.
Men and women cannot be friends. God built the tension into us.
It is worse than folks let on.
In every rating there are a certain number of ship slots and land slots. So with that rating you spend so many years on a ship, and then so many years at shore, when you can have some sort of normal home life or perhaps pursue and marry a young lady.
Women getting pregnant take away the shore slots, which means sailors who were supposed to have a 18~24 month slot on dry land suddenly get shipped out to fill the empty berth. Totally unfair and a reason you cannot keep a lot of good personal in for a career, especially in some rating where there are not a lot of excess personnel.
It also causes all sort of difficulties on ship. Men together form deep male friendships and a lot of comradeship under adverse circumstances. Lasts a lifetime. Stick a few young fertile women in and it becomes a fight to see who gets laid by whom. No number of harassment classes can defeat basic biology. The comradeship goes by the wayside when every swinging d—k is trying to get entry into the few females around. It is very bad for discipline.
It is bad for the women. You take a objectively 4 or 5 attractiveness female and suddenly in a position where the males outnumber them 4 to 1 and guess what, they are , in that close quarters a 8 or a 9. They have never had such attention before and many act accordingly, they go full slut. Then they get out of the service and find that the inevitable wear and tear, along with the masculine manners they have unknowingly adopted make then a 3.5 or a 4.5 in the real world. It is very sad all round.
The entire social engineering is weakening the military, I expect it will take a real defeat, due to loss of cohesion under fire to cause reality to intrude on this utopian leftist dream of gender equality.
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