No, its not the Imp. November 2018 HNoMS Helge Ingstad, a Norwegian frigate, collided with the tanker Sola TS and sank. Much criticism and many jokes were made on the Norwegian navy following this.
But as it turns, and this has only come to light in the last few days and appears to have been actively suppressed for 4 years now, the duty officer on the bridge was a female US navy officer under training, on a exchange program between the Norwegian and US Navy.
Its one thing that it happened, but this has been rumored for years and the only reason its finally come out is because she has been requested to testify as a witness during court proceedings currently ongoing against the watch chief of Helge Ingstad.
Pussy pass stamped and approved, and a male Norwegian officer is currently getting shafted for a fuckup in part caused by a US navy diversity hire.
Pretty much yes but one needs to use a more... Diplomatic wording when a study is gonna be shared across countries.
So the "could afford to keep" is likely a "ship doesn't sink" but worded nicely. And it is the absolute maximum and not the efficient number of females they could have on a warship. No use making a study about that when it's easy to deduce it's zero
US Marines kept excellent figures on injury rates in basic training.
Women have 30X greater rate of medical discharge for hip ligament injuries under load: eg marching with a pack
That is just one kind of injury. All told women are about half as physically capable as men and much (!) more prone to injury under strain.
I'd love to see that study. Do you still have it to hand?
I'd like to read it as well (and see what 'under load' constituted for men and women in the study).
In my experience, they got hurt at half-pack, while most of us were fine at 120-140%, because we were carrying what they couldn't in addition to our own.
Of course, when units in my field went forward WMs never left the wire except in MRAPs, but they still had to pretend in training, and they never had anything other than individual equipment to carry. No squad gear, just sleeping kit, ammo, weapon, and armor to ruck around with.
That had to have been a huge drain on morale knowing you had women larping in the service
Unfortunately not. Sorry.
I did a bit of a search, and this is the study I found. There are others, including officer training.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9158436/
Most of the data of recruit injury isn't broken down by gender or injury type by gender. I don't think that is a cooincidence.
The broad consensus is that women are much more likely to suffer injuries to the legs and lower legs than men; and that this can be reduced with the correct physical conditioning.
Reduced how much, and compared to what remains unanswered.