female submariners in 2009

[insanebikerboy]

http://www.subsim.com/new_york_times_sub_article.htm

Would've been better if you'd hyperlinked it without the address visible :icon_tong

 

[Uncle Fester]

 

[Ecureuil444]

"...the Navy plans to get women into submarines and avoid mixing with seamen by making two US Virginia class subs consist of all-female crew and officers."

Poor wording or a bit risqué?

 

[eddie]

What is the official rationale for not having women on subs? Hygiene? Facilities?

 

[haubby]

Heads are the biggest reason I would believe. The Ohio Class could probably pull it off (and we do for midiops) but it sucks only having 3 toliets/2 showers for 120 guys.

 

[WIDGET]

doesn't pregnancy play its role?

 

[eddie]

limited space to provide the extra seperate facilities, sexual harasment, and if it was an all girl sub if you group girls together for long enough their periods all match up at the same time... can u imagine hell? well thats prolly it!

Anything that bleeds for five days and lives cannot be trusted...

 

[Praying4OCS]

I showed the article to my command (Submarine Squadron 11) including my Commodore. The reaction was great . I then showed them the april fools. Everyone got a kick out of it. Especially the last line from the Chief about his mother-in-law.

 

[Tom]

I hear their menstruation attracts bears.

 

[WIDGET]

Well, that's just great. You hear that, Ed? Bears. Now you're putting the whole station in jeopardy.

 

[scoober78]

Anything that bleeds for five days and lives cannot be trusted...

I hear their menstruation attracts bears.

Ok guys...maybe its me..but this stuff seems a bit out of line. "Knock it off" and debrief at the O-club eh?

 

[DanMa1156]

doesn't pregnancy play its role?

That's what I always thought... a woman comes on board and doesn't know shes pregnant, and a possibly very sensitive mission is compromised because it has to surface... or she hooks up with a male if they have mixed crews, same thing.

 

[scoober78]

That's what I always thought... a woman comes on board and doesn't know shes pregnant, and a possibly very sensitive mission is compromised because it has to surface... or she hooks up with a male if they have mixed crews, same thing.

The real issue is that all submarine officers are NUC officers and that there are special Navy and Federal requirements for ionizing radiation exposure to unborn children and pregnant women.

 

[haubby]

The real issue is that all submarine officers are NUC officers and that there are special Navy and Federal requirements for ionizing radiation exposure to unborn children and pregnant women.

So these requirements don't apply to female surface nukes?

 

[scoober78]

No...they do. Leave me alone...Codeine good.

By the way...I can't remember if we had this discussion before or not...were we on PA at the same time?? I suspect so. PM me...