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Monday, November 30, 2009

Female cadets raring to serve on submarines

Maria AbreuIn her freshman year of high school, Maria Abreu asked if women were allowed to serve on submarines.

"Sorry, kid, no," was the response from the Navy chief who was visiting her Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps unit at New London High School.

"My heart just, like, sunk," Abreu, 17, said.

Now a junior, Abreu was ecstatic to learn that military leaders are working on a plan to allow women to serve in the Submarine Force. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has said the change could happen in two to three years, which means that Abreu and other teenagers who are NJROTC cadets now may be among the first women to serve on submarines.

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