KINGS BAY NAVAL SUBMARINE BASE, Ga. – The first U.S. women allowed to serve aboard submarines will be reporting for duty by 2012, the Navy said Thursday as the military ordered an end to one of its few remaining gender barriers.
The cramped quarters and scant privacy aboard submarines, combined with long tours of up to 90 days at sea, kept them off-limits to female sailors for 16 years after the Navy began allowing women to serve on all its surface ships in 1994.
There were some protests, particularly from wives of sub sailors, after the military began formulating a plan last fall. But it received no objections from Congress after Defense Secretary Robert Gates notified lawmakers in mid-February that the Navy intended to lift the ban. The deadline for Congress to intervene passed at midnight Wednesday.
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Anything goes in our corrupt and vile society. Now we are trying to convince ourselves it is OK to allow women to serve on Submarines. It sounds like a Raquel Welch movie - are they going to sail through a person's capillaries?
ReplyDeleteAny moral and decent society would laugh this off as a crude sex joke. Not our Country. Our Leaders are so morally bankrupt that they would think this is a good idea.
Unbelievable!
I am a former service member, not Navy, but was is wrong with women serving on subs. How is it different from the ship?
ReplyDeleteI say let the women stay and make the men go!
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