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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Royal Navy may lift ban on females serving on submarines

Vanguard-classThe Royal Navy may lift a ban on women serving on submarines, the Ministry of Defence said today. A decision will be made later this year.

Last month the United States moved to relax similar rules preventing women from deploying on submarines.

The Sun reported that four groups of five women officers will initially be deployed with Britain’s four Vanguard-class, nuclear submarines, which each have a crew of 135.

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