I was never a bubblehead, (i.e. never served on subs for you non-Navy) but I may try to be reinstated on a boomer if this actually goes anywhere.
Where do I sign up!?!? I would like to be the torpedo guy too cuz workin w/women around a giant torpedo for hours on end has gotta get to them sometime! Originally Posted by RodramRod, this is not directed towards you specifically. I know that you are mainly kidding around, but it's attitudes like this that makes it hard for women to work around men while in the military.
Schnell is the 12th commanding officer to be relieved in 2010. The Navy removed seven commanding officers between Jan. 1 and March 15 alone. Seventeen commanders were relieved in 2009.I remember a time when only one of those was cause to be relieved of your command.
Reasons for the firings this year have ranged from public alcohol abuse and prostitute solicitation to running a ship into a pier
Things may have changed aboard the Peleliu...No shit! Fucking idiots everywhere. Yeah, things were a little different in 97. We were under very strict orders. Wog day was canceled during that cruise (pissed me off at the time, because I was a shell back by then).
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I remember a time when only one of those was cause to be relieved of your command. Originally Posted by oshins
Rod, this is not directed towards you specifically. I know that you are mainly kidding around, but it's attitudes like this that makes it hard for women to work around men while in the military.Oh no problem JJ, I know exactly what you are talking about. I recently left a very large telecommunications company here in SA(you know who that is) where sexual harassment was a huge problem. The incidents were posted(no names of course) in the company intranet under the Code of Business Conduct.
I was aboard the USS Peleliu during my second deployment and we had three females on board. One Marine (a maintenance controller with the harrier community), and two Navy (a helicopter pilot with the SAR unit and one flight surgeon attached with the helo community).
There was constant lack of respect towards these women. There wasn't a day where I didn't hear a sexist comment. There were always rumors about who the women were having affairs with (mind you all of these women were commissioned officers and if true and caught there would be dire consequences). If indeed there were relationships on-board ship, that was their business and no one else's.
Each and every time that I had to interact with them, they were always very professional (more so than their counter parts). I wish we (as men) just get over ourselves and start treating women with a little more respect.
I'm not denying that there are times when people indulge in this kind of behavior. All I'm saying is that professionalism and respect in the workplace is a must to have a good working relationship. Especially when people's lives depend on your decisions. Originally Posted by JJ