'This was the first wartime deployment of a mixed male-female crew on a U.S. Navy combat vessel with just over one-third of her crew being women. During this time, the ship was branded as the "love boat" when 36 of the crew's women (about 10%) discovered that they were pregnant.'
Pregnancies become a bigger problem on submarines because of the limited space for medical facilities and the difficulty of transferring crew on/off the sub.
Is that the one where, when you dig into the details, you find that most of them were either pregnant before they joined, or became pregnant while on leave with their spouses/boyfriends and only a small percentage actually became pregnant while aboard?
The Wikipedia article says 22 of the 36 became pregnant with a fellow crew member during the deployment. All of them had to be transferred off the ship so they could be closer to an obstetrician in case of complications.
I think you might have misread that, it says 22 with a fellow crewmember or while on shore leave in Hawaii/Philippines/Singapore/Thailand/other ports (and the source [1] doesn't mention crewmembers but it's implied).
I don’t think this is quite describing mixed bathrooms, it seems like they are addressing the issue by making bathrooms unisex single toilets, which is hardly a radical concept in public facilities.
As a submarine veteran, I can already tell the U.S.S New Jersey is going to get the nickname “U.S.S Jersey Shore” by the crew one of my shipmates was on an SSGN and he said there was always some kind of intersex drama when there’s both male and female on a boat
I can just imagine the drama. I know from experience in STEM circles at uni, the gender imbalance caused a lot of drama. The relatively few girls would basically be kingmakers, crowning the couple of guys who were handsome enough. That caused a lot of drama because as you can imagine, each girl had a whole entourage of guys all of which were secretly in love with her. We were of the exact same age as the people serving on this sub.
I can just imagine that drama but 200 feet under the sea.
I didn't mention sexual assault. If anything we were the most mild mannered of all the faculties. The more extroverted faculties had more issues along those lines. But there was a lot of drama and resentment that originated from that gender imbalance and the social dynamics that it evoked. And tbh, I find it hard to believe that it would be different anywhere else if you have the same gender imbalance issues.
'This was the first wartime deployment of a mixed male-female crew on a U.S. Navy combat vessel with just over one-third of her crew being women. During this time, the ship was branded as the "love boat" when 36 of the crew's women (about 10%) discovered that they were pregnant.'