Who knows how expensive this will be and challenging for new rules and culture shifts. They new Virginia’s have “gender neutral” bathrooms. Basically, everyone gets a private stall to themself.
Gaucher added, per the outlet, that all future nuclear-powered attack submarines and all new Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines are to be designed “gender-neutral from the keel up.”
For the New Jersey, that meant adjusting many details, from the height of overhead valves to the privacy of washrooms and berths, the outlet reported.
Since admitting women onto submarines, the US Navy has faced the challenge of retrofitting and reorganizing vessels for co-ed use.
Last year, the Navy announced plans to expand the number of submarines taking on co-ed crews from 30 to 40, the Navy Times reported.
Lieutenant Commanders Andrea Howard and Emma McCarthy, who joined the influx of women to the fleet, wrote last year about the adjustments needed — both physical and social — in integrating them on ships designed for all-male crews.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/09/10/us-navy-about-launch-submarine-built-mixed-gender-crew-first-of-its-kind.html?ESRC=eb_240911.nl
If a shipmate does their job and is reliable, I don’t care how they stow their mating tackle.
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In the article below, the Navy is spending 2.4 billion dollars for a five year consulting job by the politically correct firm of Deloitte.
That’s 500 million a year for consulting.
500 million dollars.
PowerPoint slides and Word documents and nicely worded justification at the end of each year on all the contributions to improve, then at the end of five years, none of the advice is followed and shipbuilding is still in an existential crisis on the sole exquisite platform advantage, nuclear submarines, the US military has in the 21st century.
Roughly half the cost of a new submarine and there aren’t enough submarines.
Oh, and to make you feel even better:
Deloitte in 2024 ranked #1 in global diversity, has consistently placed well in Human Rights Campaign corporate equity index, and often receives recognition for its efforts in DEI. It has paid for this too, investing $75 million in 2021 to establish its Making Accounting Diverse and Equitable and committing over $1.5 billion to creating an equitable society. Its own corporate DEI report belies an emphasis on racial quotas and identity, an approach that has cratered military recruiting.
Deloitte is number one in the galactic wrecking ball of IED that has spawned a competency crisis and a chaos avalanche cascading through first world civilizations.
Imagine the efficiencies that will be achieved by the helms-humans in those C-suites!
That’s 2.4 billion debt-bucks to build PPT decks and let’s suppose they finish around 2028/29 and we are five years farther into the chaos avalanche of the competency crisis and shipbuilding infrastructure is even worse than now.
They will either adopt the recommendations or do what they always do, refuse to make hard choices and continue to fight the PTO in WWII. Fire every flag officer on deck in the US Navy tomorrow and don’t forget to cashier all the SES dross that got us into this mess in the first place. As a USN alumnus, I am sad to say by 2030, the US surface navy will be in tatters.
Consider the $2.4 billion deal administration inked in July with Deloitte Consulting to boost submarine construction, by an administration that had claimed there isn’t enough money in the budget to fund two needed nuclear attack submarines.
Deloitte will get $2.4 billion over five years to: “… provide labor, materials, and equipment needed to develop and expand the size and capability of the maritime submarine workforce and industrial base and speed the development of improved manufacturing technologies to supply chain.”
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the cost of building a new nuclear attack submarine today is $4.3 billion. At a day and age where the Navy’s requirement for submarines is 66 but only has 50. So why not just spend that money to buy a submarine?
The Department of Defense’s $2.4 Billion ‘Submarine’ Mistake
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