Submarine Community Can’t Meet Demand From Female Sailors
By: Ben Werner
November 11, 2019 2:37 PM
ARLINGTON, Va. — The Navy has more women seeking to serve on submarines that it has room for, according to both the Atlantic and Pacific submarine force master chiefs.
Master Chief John Perryman, the force master chief for the submarine force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, and Master Chief Kevin Scarff, the force master chief for the submarine force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, detailed some of the staffing challenges facing the Navy’s submarine community during the annual Naval Submarine League Symposium on Friday.
“We are having to turn women away from the submarine force,†Perryman said. “We don’t have enough billets for female officers. We have much higher demand than we have billets for, and the same thing is true at the recruiting command for enlisted females.â€
https://news.usni.org/2019/11/11/available-submarine-billets-outpaced-by-demand-from-female-sailors
