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October 21st, 2010, 02:03 PM
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#1 | | Old Salt
Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Tampa
Posts: 1,071
| Navy picks submarines that will carry first women
All I can say is that this ought to get "interesting" to say the least.  Quote: http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/oct...news-breaking/
Navy picks submarines that will carry first women
WASHINGTON The Navy selected four submarines today to carry the first women serving aboard what has been the last class of warship off-limits to them.
Twenty-four female officers are in training for submarine service and are expected to join their ships in December 2011.
The Navy selected the USS Wyoming and USS Georgia, based in Kings Bay, Ga., and the USS Maine and USS Ohio, with their home port in Bangor, Wash. The ships are guided-missile attack submarines and ballistic-missile submarines.
The Navy announced in the spring that it was lifting the ban on women serving aboard submarines. Women had been barred from subs on the theory that the close quarters and long deployments common to these ships were unsuitable for a coed crew.
The initial class of women will serve in teams of three, all sharing a stateroom, Navy spokeswoman Lt. Rebecca Rebarich said. The lone bathroom for officers will bear a reversible sign — letting men know that it's in use by women and vice versa.
They'll be divided up so that women are assigned to each sub's two rotating crews.
Limiting women to officer slots lets the Navy, for a time at least, sidestep the more vexing and cost-prohibitive problem of modifying subs to have separate bunks and bathrooms for enlisted men and women.
Enlisted sailors make up about 90 percent of a sub's 160-member crew.
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October 24th, 2010, 01:44 PM
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#2 | | Old Salt
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: MN
Posts: 1,248
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Bad, Bad news!
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October 24th, 2010, 05:49 PM
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#3 | | Senior Chief
U. S. Navy, Ret
Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: West Coast
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I've said it before and I'll say it again.....
A warship, especially a submarine, is no place for a woman.
Most career Navymen will tell you the same thing.....they don't like this equal opportunity B.S. with women being forced upon their domains. It creates more problems that is solves.
Last edited by MackR; October 24th, 2010 at 06:15 PM.
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October 24th, 2010, 06:57 PM
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#4 | | Designated Marksman
Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central Ohio
Posts: 621
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And just exactly what will happen on the sub that has all three of em doin their PMS thing on the same sub at the same time?
Methinks the forward escape hatch may be used far more in the future than it ever was in the past. 
May God bless,
Dwight
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October 25th, 2010, 05:36 AM
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#5 | | Designated Marksman
Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Florida
Posts: 663
| Heyyyy Wadaminute!
Let me get this straight, the USS Maine is home ported in BANGOR, Washington? I rest my case concerning the USN. 
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October 25th, 2010, 06:42 AM
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#6 | | Designated Marksman
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Epping, NH
Posts: 624
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The home port of the SSN New Hampshire is Groton, CT. Go figure....
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October 25th, 2010, 10:13 AM
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#7 | | Designated Marksman
Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Florida
Posts: 663
| GE "We bring good things to life."
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Originally Posted by rscalzo  The home port of the SSN New Hampshire is Groton, CT. Go figure.... | Probably just a bunch of GE equipment wanting to go home in this case.
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October 25th, 2010, 04:06 PM
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#8 | | Designated Marksman
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Epping, NH
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Don't you mean General Dynamics, the prime contractor? 
I was fortunate enough to get an invitation to the commissioning back in 2008.
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October 25th, 2010, 06:16 PM
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#9 | | Old Salt
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Dixie
Posts: 1,846
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What are those draft dodging pogues doing to my Navy?
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October 25th, 2010, 06:17 PM
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#10 | | Lifer
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Chesterfield, VA
Posts: 2,348
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Unless men and women in the armed forces are more honest and more honorable than they were about 30 years ago this will not work.
Will they cut a cruise short to bring the pregnant women home or will they have a helicoptor come pick them up. Or will has the military come up with some type of long term birth control they can force on members (of the opposite sex) in the armed services working in close proximity to each other?
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October 25th, 2010, 10:20 PM
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#11 | | Squad Leader
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: PA
Posts: 225
|  My new specialty!
The idea of women on a sub makes me wanna go train and be a "NAVAL DOCTOR!" ;)
I'm not a male shovinist, but women in subs is as wrong as women in combat!
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October 26th, 2010, 12:37 AM
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#12 | | Automatic Rifleman
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Washington
Posts: 172
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Do you think it's the shape of the sub that attracts the female submariners? 
Bad taste, I know.
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October 26th, 2010, 05:57 AM
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#13 | | Lifer
Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MackR I've said it before and I'll say it again.....
A warship, especially a submarine, is no place for a woman. | Placing women on warships is nothing but politically correct social engineering. The best that can be said about it is that it is a solution to a problem that does not exist. JMHO
USN MM1(SS) 1979-1987 with honorable discharge
NECs 3355, 3365, 3366
Senior watchstations qualified - Leading Engineering Laboratory Technician, Engine Room Supervisor USS City of Corpus Christi SSN 705 USS Nathan Hale SSBN 623 Gold USS Phoenix SSN 702
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October 26th, 2010, 10:12 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Rhode Island
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Id take all the women I could get if I was stuck in one of those tubes...Sounds like fun... 
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October 26th, 2010, 05:01 PM
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#15 | | Squad Leader
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: PA
Posts: 225
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Perhaps it's the thought of being surrounded by alot of Seaman!!! haha
Sorry that was also in bad taste, but I just had to say it!
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