Your buddy got bad gouge. Every surface ship can have females as part of the crew.
All the other stuff, welcome to what the rest of the DOD has been dealing with for the last 20-ish years.
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Your buddy got bad gouge. Every surface ship can have females as part of the crew.
All the other stuff, welcome to what the rest of the DOD has been dealing with for the last 20-ish years.
But I could have sworn enlisted women are not aboard FFGs for space considerations.
It really appears that you're grasping at straws - and its rather unbecoming. Many of the arguments you make, while some are sub specific, are very similar to arguments men made to keepthis woman from becoming what she became.
It's also a bit ridiculous for you to assume so many of these women will end up pregnant. Ridiculous, and arrogant to presume they'd be interested in dropping trou with you. Yes, you can cite numbers from initial female-inclusive carrier cruise, but we live in a different culture today. Will it happen at some point? Likely. Is it going to be the end of the world? No.
Your community will pass you by, as happened in the aviation (specifically Tac-Air) community.
Your use of Capt Graf as an example is a poor choice. Her leadership failings were hardly unique to her gender.
Grow up and be the professionals you're paid to be, see my earlier comment about arrogance and assumptions.
You give your existing officers and leaders that little credit?
So you're telling us cliques don't currently exist?
Yeah, that's more correct, but the "why" is still wrong.
The problem isn't "space" per se, it's whether or not they have berthings converted for female habitability. DDGs slated to serve out to 2025+ were getting this retrofit as late as 2009..obviously the Navy wasn't going to bother to retrofit a class of ship that's been neutered and halfway out the door.
And when people throw the "space" issue up, you really gotta ask...does a female crewmember get assigned more space than a male crewmember? Obviously no. Yes, temporarily, there will be inefficiencies while the assigned/designed ratio stabilizes out. But it's not about "space", it's whether or not it's designed into the ship and manned accordingly.
exNavyOffRec
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Isn't the regulation still in effect where a woman that is pregnant has to be within X hours of a facility for treatment of pregnancy issues? When I was on the Lincoln the pregnant females I dealt with were flown down to SD and we would pick them up there and then they were flown back up to Everett when we transited back.
Maybe it is up to the CO to determine what the abilities are to get to a medical facility?
Maybe it is up to the CO to determine what the abilities are to get to a medical facility?
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LSO, it's obvious neither side is going to budge, but I want to clarify something:
Additionally, the top two sub CO firing reasons last year dealt with mishandling classified information and inappropriate relations with women. So when I'm talking about losing leaders to misconduct, I'm talking about men, too.
I recognize that other communities have dealt with this for some time, too. It just doesn't seem like anyone actually gathered objective data one way or another to support (or refute) the notion that women enhance warfighting effectiveness. It's all mental masturbation, as Brett would say, since policy is policy. But there are a lot of skeptics in the community and some data would allow the wardroom and goat locker to toe the line and make Sailors believers more easily than telling us to say women are smart, too, so women ought to serve on submarines.
I am not in the pregnancy crowd. The military loses more men to sports injuries, DUIs, assaults, and other risky behavior mostly undertaken by men than we will ever lose women to pregnancy. My attrition comment was about the empirical fact that much fewer women elect to continue a career in the military after their initial commitment than men. It has nothing to do with pregnancy rates.Recovering LSO said:
Additionally, the top two sub CO firing reasons last year dealt with mishandling classified information and inappropriate relations with women. So when I'm talking about losing leaders to misconduct, I'm talking about men, too.
I recognize that other communities have dealt with this for some time, too. It just doesn't seem like anyone actually gathered objective data one way or another to support (or refute) the notion that women enhance warfighting effectiveness. It's all mental masturbation, as Brett would say, since policy is policy. But there are a lot of skeptics in the community and some data would allow the wardroom and goat locker to toe the line and make Sailors believers more easily than telling us to say women are smart, too, so women ought to serve on submarines.
The obvious follow up questions to your attrition comments, are a) are women "attriting" because they can't handle the job and are kicked out or are they simply saying fuck this shit in greater numbers at the end of their commitments? and b) what are the loss rates among other minorities? If they're higher than your Mk1 Mod0 white male, should we stop recruiting them as well? In the case of subs, unlike special warfare, infantry, etc, there is no good argument why a women is incapable of doing the job. Yes, there are logistical challenges as we've discussed ad nauseum, but saying because a woman is more likely to leave at the end of her time, therefore we shouldn't recruit her into the community, is frankly a bullshit reason.
Does your CO give a "why" with every order?
I hope you're not referring to this. Because it has nothing to do with women serving on submarines.
LET73
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I'm guessing women get out earlier because it's harder for women to maintain a normal family life than for men. How many civilian guys want to be Navy husbands? How many moms want to deploy while Dad stays home with the kids? Aviation has a long training pipeline, too, but I think at this point it's commonly accepted that women will be pilots.