Well, if shortcomings in size and upper body strength ever do become a real and immediate issue in a damage control incident on a sub, we'll probably never know about it. Major damage control failures on subs in blue water generally don't end in a way that tells much of a tale.
OMG-------They would have to be Officers, few Normal males can qualify for Subs, I cannot see how any Enlisted woman could handle the job.
I do not see how a woman could earn her Dolphins much less drink them.
Woman have the brains and the guts to serve but this is an extraordinary part of the Military.
It is nothing like going into space, there are freaking Windows to look out, and constant contact with Earth via radio.
What kind of woman could head out to stay underwater for 3-9 months, the male crew are not going to treat her as a woman--the language and pranks pulled on her and each other will disgust her.
I do hope there is a video made of the first Skipper to have a woman aboard his boat. May be he will have a nervous breakdown 3 weeks out.
