20 year USN here, who deployed with women 8 times,starting in 1996.
Some of them can hack it, but some can't, and cause endless drama where there doesnt need to be. On average every time a carrier deploys it loses 20 female sailors to pregnancy. Women are not allowed on ships if they are pregnant, they get sent to shore duty if they get pregnant. Women can and do get pregnant deliberately to avoid deployment. I had a girl in my shop do that, and she did it at least twice that I know of. She waited until she was 3 months into her pregnancy to tell the command, and she told the command on the last working day before we were set to board planes to deploy.
The fraternization problems are huge, and cause endless discipline problems. Every port call people go up to see the captain for article 15 discipline proceedings due to shacking up together and getting caught.
20 year USN here, who deployed with women 8 times,starting in 1996.
Some of them can hack it, but some can't, and cause endless drama where there doesnt need to be. On average every time a carrier deploys it loses 20 female sailors to pregnancy. Women are not allowed on ships if they are pregnant, they get sent to shore duty if they get pregnant. Women can and do get pregnant deliberately to avoid deployment. I had a girl in my shop do that, and she did it at least twice that I know of. She waited until she was 3 months into her pregnancy to tell the command, and she told the command on the last working day before we were set to board planes to deploy.
The fraternization problems are huge, and cause endless discipline problems. Every port call people go up to see the captain for article 15 discipline proceedings due to shacking up together and getting caught.