EXCLUSIVE: Deployed US Navy Has A Pregnancy Problem, And It’s Getting Worse

The Daily Caller ^ | 3-1-2017 | Richard Pollock

[libertylover]

such increases cast a shadow over the lofty stupid gender integration goals set by former President Barack Obama.

[jonno]

Well said.

[caligatrux]

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.

So true, so very true. We used to understand this as a matter of course, but somehow we got talked out of it.

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.

Again, so true and well-said. It hurts the men, it hurts the women, and worst of all, it hurts the Navy and its effectiveness. But if you dare say any of that, you're a hate-filled bigot.

[Thibodeaux]

sailors copulate

[PLMerite]

Someone with experience needs to come up with a desert/deployed/at-sea version of the hot/crazy matrix.

[Polyxene]

Well said! I agree!

[DakotaRed]

It amazes me how those supporting abortion claim it is unrealistic to teach or expect abstinence for High School students, yet believe young people out of High School only a couple years should refrain from sexual contact once they join the Military and serve in high stress situations

[arthurus]

It was once the general wisdom on the waterfront that it is bad luck to sign a woman on to the crew.
Some sailors regard women in the crew as recreation. Some get horny on long deployments. Some are jerks and women, for the most part, are women.

[arthurus]

Easy. It will be in the area of 95%. 5% will be unable or really butch lesbians.

[arthurus]

The only sane procedure is to remove the women, along with “transgenders” and homosexuals from the military, at least from the combat wings.

[Nachoman]

Gives new meaning to the term “hot bunking”.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Men are just going to have to learn to control themselves, or they will continue to be taken advantage of like this.

Note that being taken advantage of, in this context, does not make them victims.

[ChicagahAl]

No method other than abstinence is 100% guaranteed.

Abstinence fails quite a lot. You might have to think about that, but it's true.

And, unfortunately, when abstinence fails, the participants usually don't have a backup plan.

[packrat35]

I’ll known several women in the Navy and all of them admitted they got pregnant to avoid deployment and to get it cut short. ALL OF THEM!

[gundog]

I know a couple that got pregnant to avoid her deployment to Afghanistan. Not impressed.

[Sergio]

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.

Even sadder and more unfair is when you consider that a lot of these men that have to spend more time at sea may also have a wife and kids that now have a husband/father away from home longer than expected.

I know that this will never be done, but it would be interesting to study the number of divorces of Navy men caused by having to fill a slot vacated by Navy women who became pregnant while on sea duty.

[blueunicorn6]

Impossible.

Men and women are the same.

[rigelkentaurus]

I don’t really see any significant different between a person self-inflicting a wound to get out of duty/service and getting pregnant. Charges should be brought or at the least a dishonorable discharge to blot their record forever.

[Sergio]

Agreed.

[suthener]

“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.”

Unless things have changed what you wrote is not correct. Pregnancies wills not change sea/shore rotation. Shore duty will not be terminated on a routine basis such as pregnancy. I will say that watch rotation will be significantly adversely affected which would have a detrimental effect on retention. Before women were assigned sea duty there was a serious problem with sea/shore rotation. I have been retired long enough to not know how it is now.