ST. MARY’S, Ga. (AP) — The Navy is considering allowing women to serve aboard submarines for the first time, 16 years after bringing female sailors onto surface combat ships.Some sailors and wives warn that putting men and women together in extremely close quarters underwater for weeks at a time is just asking for sexual harassment cases and wrecked marriages. But supporters of the idea say it is a matter of fairness and equal opportunity, and what worked on ships can work in subs.—-Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]
U.S. Navy to consider allowing women aboard submarines
October 12, 2009