Women have a place on submarines, cigarettes do not, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said Tuesday afternoon during a visit of Kitsap facilities.Mabus, the Navy’s top civilian leader, addressed policy changes and the Navy’s future during an interview at the Puget Sound Navy Museum.
Integrating women onto submarine crews is “absolutely the right thing to do,” he said. Congress has a few more days to reject the change, otherwise women will be serving beneath the sea within two years. Mabus said he’s gotten nothing but positive response from Congress and the community.
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Mr. Mabus apparently is misinformed when he says:
ReplyDelete"... he’s gotten nothing but positive response from Congress and the community."
I have been in close contact with the submarine community recently. Many people have written to Congress to oppose lifting the ban.
Mr. Mabus apparently has not read this article in the April 5th edition of the Washington Times:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2...
Mr. Mabus might want to consider investigating the soundness of his chain of command. Please see these inputs to Commander, Submarine Group 10 (RAdm Bruner):
http://csg10.wordpress.com/2010/03/02...
Mr. Mabus apparently has not read the information provided by the Center For Military Readiness:
http://cmrlink.org/womensubs.asp
Mr. Mabus apparently has not read the comments from current folks in the submarine community, including current submariners, former submarines, spouses and other family members, and concerned citizens.
A sampling of these comments is available here:
http://www.14olcott.net/images/storie...
Links to these comments have been provided to leadership, including members of Congress.
I have done extensive research on this issue and collected my data here:
http://www.14olcott.net/index.php?opt...
For those that would like to respond to Mr. Mabus' statement that that there is 'nothing but positive support in the community', please feel free to make your inputs know here:
http://www.14olcott.net/index.php?opt...
I'm all for a reasonable, open, and transparent discussion of this issue. However, when someone as senior and influential as the Secretary of the Navy says "he's gotten nothing but positive response from Congress and the community" I seriously worry about the integrity of our political system.
Very respectfully,
John A. Mason, ETCS (SS/SW)(USN Ret.)