EXCLUSIVE: Deployed US Navy Has A Pregnancy Problem, And It’s Getting Worse

[rangerrebew]

EXCLUSIVE: Deployed US Navy Has A Pregnancy Problem, And It’s Getting Worse
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Richard Pollock
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A record 16 out of 100 Navy women are reassigned from ships to shore duty due to pregnancy, according to data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group.

That number is up 2 percent from 2015, representing hundreds more who have to cut their deployments short, taxing both their unit’s manpower, military budgets and combat readiness.  Further, such increases cast a shadow over the lofty gender integration goals set by former President Barack Obama.

Overall, women unexpectedly leave their stations on Navy ships as much as 50% more frequently to return to land duty, according to documents obtained from the Navy.  The statistics were compiled by the Navy Personnel Command at the request of TheDCNF, covering the period from January 2015 to September 2016.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/01/exclusive-deployed-us-navy-has-a-pregnancy-problem-and-its-getting-worse/#ixzz4aB4P3bLA

[Maj. Bill Martin]

EXCLUSIVE: Deployed US Navy Has A Pregnancy Problem, And It’s Getting Worse
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Richard Pollock
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9:28 PM 03/01/2017
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A record 16 out of 100 Navy women are reassigned from ships to shore duty due to pregnancy, according to data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group.

That number is up 2 percent from 2015, representing hundreds more who have to cut their deployments short, taxing both their unit’s manpower, military budgets and combat readiness.  Further, such increases cast a shadow over the lofty gender integration goals set by former President Barack Obama.

Overall, women unexpectedly leave their stations on Navy ships as much as 50% more frequently to return to land duty, according to documents obtained from the Navy.  The statistics were compiled by the Navy Personnel Command at the request of TheDCNF, covering the period from January 2015 to September 2016.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/01/exclusive-deployed-us-navy-has-a-pregnancy-problem-and-its-getting-worse/#ixzz4aB4P3bLA

This is the deep, dark secret that everyone is nervous to discuss.  Truth is, troops have done all sorts of stuff throughout history to get out of deployments, war zones, or bad situations.  It's why deliberately harming yourself to get out of combat is a court-martial offense.

But pregnancy is a get out of jail free card for any woman who wishes to use it.  Maybe a lot of guys would do the same if Mother Nature gave them that option, but it didn't.  Having a significant part of the deployment force be female opens us up to being literally decimated - or worse -- before a shot is fired.

[dfwgator]

Gee, who didn't see this coming?

[Smokin Joe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_wFEB4Oxlo...

And that's all I have to say about that.

[driftdiver]

Heck I saw this with remote assignments when I was in.  The women who get pregnant should be facing disciplinary action.

[geronl]

Gee, who didn't see this coming?

I know, right?

This was just unforeseeable. lol

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Time to stop the social justice crap with the military.


Grandfather in the women already there and put a stop to it.

Nothing made me angrier than when Obama did it.

[dfwgator]

I know, right?

This was just unforeseeable. lol

Even Stevie Wonder could have seen it coming.

[Smokin Joe]

Even Stevie Wonder could have seen it coming.

Yeah, but he looks around a LOT!

[thackney]

Time to stop the social justice crap with the military.


Grandfather in the women already there and put a stop to it.

Nothing made me angrier than when Obama did it.

Obama?

http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2003/december/women.htm

In October 1978, in the wake of a court ruling that overturned statutes that forbade women from serving at sea, the Navy launched their Women in Navy Ships program and announced that they would assign 55 women officers and 375 female enlisted personnel to 21 ships during the next year.

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https://www.navalhistory.org/2012/03/07/first-women-assigned-to-a-combat-ship

The U. S. Navy issued the first set of orders to women for duty aboard a combat ship, the USS Eisenhower (CVN-69) on March 7, 1994.

[rodamala]

Gee, who didn't see this coming?

[rangerrebew]

When I was in, we never had a single pregnancy aboard the ship I was on.  Of course, women weren't allowed aboard in those days which may have something to do with it.

[Joe Wooten]

Gee, who didn't see this coming?

The libs who pushed it. I remember the debates back 30 years ago and how those who talked about human nature when young men and women are put together in close quarters for months at a time were derided as Neanderthals for such outdated attitudes.

[truth_seeker]

This is the deep, dark secret that everyone is nervous to discuss.  Truth is, troops have done all sorts of stuff throughout history to get out of deployments, war zones, or bad situations.  It's why deliberately harming yourself to get out of combat is a court-martial offense.

But pregnancy is a get out of jail free card for any woman who wishes to use it.  Maybe a lot of guys would do the same if Mother Nature gave them that option, but it didn't.  Having a significant part of the deployment force be female opens us up to being literally decimated - or worse -- before a shot is fired.

Bradley Manning came up with a new way. Just say you feel like a (pregnant) woman.

[Rivergirl]

For years now our naval vessels have been referred to as LOVE BOATS

[Rivergirl]

When I was in, we never had a single pregnancy aboard the ship I was on.  Of course, women weren't allowed aboard in those days which may have something to do with it.

Thanks for your service.