From USA Today:
"Navy seeks enlisted women for sub duty starting in 2016"
Enlisted women will join the submarine force in 2016 and recruiting for the first integrated crews is now underway. Navy personnel officials on Wednesday outlined the plans and rules for female enlisted sailors to volunteer for the Silent Service. The move begins then next step in full integration of women into the previously all male sub force, with the integration taking cues from the surface fleet's integration decades before. One of the lessons is the importance of having female leaders in place before junior enlisted women arrive, to provide them with a strong support network. The first enlisted women to hit the sub force will be seasoned chief and senior chiefs recruited from five ratings — information systems technician, yeoman, culinary specialist, logistics specialist and independent duty corpsman. "(Chief petty officers) with these ratings will be chosen to bring their current expertise and leadership skills aboard submarines quickly, which will be essential in the follow-on integration of junior female sailors," said Vice Adm. Bill Moran, the chief of naval personnel. As with female officers, enlisted women will start their integration on guided- and ballistic-missile submarines. Two crews will be integrated in 2016, with another two to four crews added each year through 2021. The move is dependent on getting enough volunteers from all eligible enlisted pay grades to make each crew viable. Officers began serving this month aboard Virginia-class attack submarines. But the arrival of female enlisted on those subs is slated for 2020, when new Virginia-class subs are delivered that will be built to accommodate enlisted women in berthing.
Those selected chiefs will first attend basic enlisted submarine school and any needed rate-specific training prior to reporting to their first boat. Female officers began reporting to the submarine force in late 2011. The first of the six female officers to join attack boat crews reported in January, with the rest expected to arrive within the next few months. Officials insist the integration is going well, even as the effort has hit its first scandal with the disclosure that female officers aboard the ballistic-missile submarine Wyoming were secretly filmed undressing over a yearlong period and the videos were shared among as many as a dozen shipmates.
^ While this is a step in the right direction the US Military needs to do a lot more to fully integrate women in every aspect of service in each branch. It is taking longer to give women the same responsibilities than it did to give black men in the 1940s after the US Military ended segregation (considering that back then as now the majority of soldiers are/were Southerners where segregation didn't end until the 1960s it was a major change.) It's now long overdue to give women (of an color and race) the same advancements, training, skills and opportunities as the men have long had. ^
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/01/22/navy-seeks-enlisted-women-for-sub-duty/22194817/
"Navy seeks enlisted women for sub duty starting in 2016"
Enlisted women will join the submarine force in 2016 and recruiting for the first integrated crews is now underway. Navy personnel officials on Wednesday outlined the plans and rules for female enlisted sailors to volunteer for the Silent Service. The move begins then next step in full integration of women into the previously all male sub force, with the integration taking cues from the surface fleet's integration decades before. One of the lessons is the importance of having female leaders in place before junior enlisted women arrive, to provide them with a strong support network. The first enlisted women to hit the sub force will be seasoned chief and senior chiefs recruited from five ratings — information systems technician, yeoman, culinary specialist, logistics specialist and independent duty corpsman. "(Chief petty officers) with these ratings will be chosen to bring their current expertise and leadership skills aboard submarines quickly, which will be essential in the follow-on integration of junior female sailors," said Vice Adm. Bill Moran, the chief of naval personnel. As with female officers, enlisted women will start their integration on guided- and ballistic-missile submarines. Two crews will be integrated in 2016, with another two to four crews added each year through 2021. The move is dependent on getting enough volunteers from all eligible enlisted pay grades to make each crew viable. Officers began serving this month aboard Virginia-class attack submarines. But the arrival of female enlisted on those subs is slated for 2020, when new Virginia-class subs are delivered that will be built to accommodate enlisted women in berthing.
Those selected chiefs will first attend basic enlisted submarine school and any needed rate-specific training prior to reporting to their first boat. Female officers began reporting to the submarine force in late 2011. The first of the six female officers to join attack boat crews reported in January, with the rest expected to arrive within the next few months. Officials insist the integration is going well, even as the effort has hit its first scandal with the disclosure that female officers aboard the ballistic-missile submarine Wyoming were secretly filmed undressing over a yearlong period and the videos were shared among as many as a dozen shipmates.
^ While this is a step in the right direction the US Military needs to do a lot more to fully integrate women in every aspect of service in each branch. It is taking longer to give women the same responsibilities than it did to give black men in the 1940s after the US Military ended segregation (considering that back then as now the majority of soldiers are/were Southerners where segregation didn't end until the 1960s it was a major change.) It's now long overdue to give women (of an color and race) the same advancements, training, skills and opportunities as the men have long had. ^
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/01/22/navy-seeks-enlisted-women-for-sub-duty/22194817/
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