“I work with a submariner.”
So do I! Her name is Cassie.
Your post is a little old…
“He thinks it is crazy to put women on subs, too.”
Uh huh. And he told the Admiral’s staff his objections, I’m sure?
“The amount of money required just to add a bathroom is over the top.”
They don’t add a bathroom. Those that can be split, they do. Women get the forward head in Enlisted spaces, men get the aft head. If they can’t split them, they have shifts. Just like the showers on M*A*S*H.
“The bad air and pregnancy problem is also quite real.”
Bad air? Um, guys fart everywhere. And women fart, too.
Okay, you don’t get pregnant while serving on a ship. Could be a plus to only allow lesbians to serve?
"Me being a female in the military,”
I have to say, my impression is that you’re a lying sack of shit. But let’s pretend you’ve enlisted in an unspecified branch of the service.
"I just don't see why women would want to force their way onto a sub”
If you ARE a wimmen in the service, surely you know that WHATEVER you do, women had to FORCE their way there, right? Just to serve in the military rather than as an auxiliary corps?
The fight against segregation, misogyny, and discrimination does not START with submarines. It’s a continuing process of demanding equality.
“when it is not in the best interest of the country they have sworn to protect and defend.”
HOW is it not in the best interests of the country to let people who want to serve do so?
Just let the numbers dwindle until we have to draft? Go back to a 70’s level of preparedness?
THIS part of your post needs the most support. What’s your source of this opinion? I doubt you’re in the military or talk frequently with anyone currently serving. Just, maybe, WWII and ‘Nam knuckledragging vets.
