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- From: buckley@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (BUCKLEY CHARLES RAY)
- Subject: Re: Women in Combat
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.083505.204@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 08:35:05 GMT
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- In article <1e0nupINN50v@FUNCTOR.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU> loosemore-sandra@cs.yale.edu (Sandra Loosemore) writes:
- >dpe@inel.gov (Don Palmrose) writes:
- >
- > 3. For women to serve on warships, major changes are required in
- > delineating the normal day-to-day procedures, for making proper
- > berthing arrangements, etc. [...] Also, special care must be
- > taken that privacy can be enforced. US Navy warships are not
- > currently designed to keep someone walking down a passageway and
- > not be able to look into a berthing compartment or shower area
- > without seeing people in their birthday suits. [...]
- >
- >Oh, horrors! I'm sure that being seen in your "birthday suit" is a
- >fate worse than death. :-)
- >
- >Seriously, I think *anybody* who joins the military has to be prepared
- >to deal with loss of privacy and individuality and less than ideal
- >living conditions. I don't think that the gender of the persons
- >involved necessarily has a major impact on this.
- >
- Given the social dynamics of a very small resticted group, I would favor an
- all female ship to a mixed ship. To date, the navy has not had much success
- in integrating its ships. Gender plays a hell of a lot of impact after a few
- months at sea.
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- >BTW, a couple of weeks ago I saw a show on TV about life on the Danish
- >merchant marine's training ship, the tall ship Danmark. There
- >appeared to be absolutely no segregation of living quarters; they
- >showed both men and women clad in underwear climbing in and out of
- >their hammocks, all in the same crowded compartment. Both the cadets
- >and the TV crew seemed to treat the living arrangements in a very
- >matter-of-fact manner.
- >
- >-Sandra
- As an aside, I seem to recall that the USAF has female personell assigned
- to missle silos. The navy, however, regards a boomer as a combat position
- - it seems to me that a boomer is a hell of alot safer than a silo.
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- No offence meant to our reside sub-hater :-)
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