Posted by Tina
When political correctness threatens the soundness of our military it has gone way to far. Putting women and men together on submarines is one of those PC ideas that is just plain stupid:
“Navy moves to put women on submarines,” by Russ Bynum and Pauline Jelinek (AP)
ST. MARYS, Ga. — Submariners sleep nine to a bunk room. There are four showers and seven toilets for the roughly 140 enlisted men. The passageways on board the vessel are so narrow that crew members can barely squeeze by each other without touching. ** And that’s on the roomiest submarines. ** The Navy is considering allowing women to serve aboard submarines for the first time, 16 years after bringing female sailors onto surface combat ships. ** Some sailors and wives warn that putting men and women together in extremely close quarters underwater for weeks at a time is just asking for sexual harassment cases and wrecked marriages. But supporters of the idea say it is a matter of fairness and equal opportunity, and what worked on ships can work in subs.
Ok all you feminists blast away!