New U.S. Navy Carriers Opt for Gender-Neutral, Urinal-Free Bathrooms
BY Camille Beredjick
July 11 2012 8:01 PM ET
http://www.advocate.com/politics/military/2012/07/11/new-class-navy-carriers-will-forego-urinals (http://www.advocate.com/politics/military/2012/07/11/new-class-navy-carriers-will-forego-urinals)
For the first time ever, a new class of U.S. Navy carriers will set off with no urinals on board, reports the Navy Times.
Urinals are omitted from the Gerald R. Ford class of carriers, due to hit the fleet in 2015, as both a cost-saving measure and an attempt to make bathrooms more gender-neutral. Urinal-free ships allow the Navy to easily switch a bathroom's designation between male and female, helping the ship adapt to changing crews. The U.S. Navy has deployed women on ships since 1994, but every carrier built since then has included urinals.
Hey, it will stop the guys pee on their shoes (or their neigbours?) in heavy seas...
I can't belive I ever used one of those nasty things LOL
Hurrah's for the U Navy, Way to go!!!
Quote from: Axélle on July 13, 2012, 01:38:48 PM
Hey, it will stop the guys pee on their shoes (or their neigbours?) in heavy seas...
Never happened. We just swayed with the motion. We tried to avoid heavy seas, but there were times that most of the crew were in their racks, seasick, during that time and we had a modified routine. These guys rode the porcelain bus. A large flat bottomed carrier such as the JFK really swayed when the seas got rough enough. You can feel the gravity change as you walked down the passageways or across the hangar bay. I never got seasick, but I went out into a covered weather deck once and saw some dolphins play in the 60' to 80' waves in the North Sea.
Joelene
I guess the true outcome of this policy is that the girls are going to learn to pee standing
Quote from: Joelene9 on July 13, 2012, 04:06:48 PM
Never happened. We just swayed with the motion. We tried to avoid heavy seas, but there were times that most of the crew were in their racks, seasick, during that time and we had a modified routine. These guys rode the porcelain bus. A large flat bottomed carrier such as the JFK really swayed when the seas got rough enough. You can feel the gravity change as you walked down the passageways or across the hangar bay. I never got seasick, but I went out into a covered weather deck once and saw some dolphins play in the 60' to 80' waves in the North Sea.
Joelene
:laugh:
Never happened on "Cans" or Cruiser's either!
...and Eeeewww! Brings back memories of that Ammonia smell! I hate the smell of Ammonia in the morning...smells like...
Eeewwww! Brings back some smelly memories!
Quote from: peky on July 13, 2012, 04:15:52 PM
I guess the true outcome of this policy is that the girls are going to learn to pee standing
Can be done, I already practice - just in case, eh? :)
Axélle
Yeah this does not change the fact I got DQ'd twice, once from the Marines which I still very much want to be part of, and once from the Army National Guard. I could have served and still be serving the Marine Corps since I was 18. I am 21 now.
Do any of you know when trans people are going to be accepted into the US Military? I figure it is not too late to join at 21/2.
Quote from: SandraJane on July 14, 2012, 03:02:14 AM
:laugh:
Never happened on "Cans" or Cruiser's either!
...and Eeeewww! Brings back memories of that Ammonia smell! I hate the smell of Ammonia in the morning...smells like...
Eeewwww! Brings back some smelly memories!
I missed as well in the morning. You aim straight in it, the stream decides to do a lateral. Some of the heads were quite bad. Especially the ones off of the forward mess deck and bomb elevators/processing area on deck 1. Our shop unit ship's company berthing is in that area and we had to use that shower/head. The squadron ones were clean when I was berthed a couple times there. HEY! Bang, bang, bang! Navy shower in there!
Joelene
This brings up the original purpose of the famed 'Plank' :laugh:
A fine place where seafaring barnacles, crustaceans and the like could make their contribution to the great mother ocean and they and others could applaud or boo and hold up numbered signs regarding performance should they be remotely literate
Your guys, where'd you LEARN all this stuff ???
Well, not in the Air Force wearing a tie...
Axélle
Quote from: Axélle on July 15, 2012, 12:56:05 AM
Your guys, where'd you LEARN all this stuff ???
Well, not in the Air Force wearing a tie...
Axélle
US Navy....accelerate your life
Quote from: Axélle on July 15, 2012, 12:56:05 AM
Your guys, where'd you LEARN all this stuff ???
Well, not in the Air Force wearing a tie...
Axélle
Quote from: peky on July 15, 2012, 10:38:30 AM
US Navy....accelerate your life
...that's right! THE NAVY....Not just a Job...its...
5 yrs at Sea, 1 yr on a Guided Missile Destroyer (DDG-aka "Can") and 4 yrs on a Guided Missile Cruiser (CG)!
Now you will only have to clean toilets and shower stalls. Progress takes time! :laugh:
join the navy ride the waves :o if your a lesbian ;D
Quote from: Amazon D on July 15, 2012, 06:34:53 PM
join the navy ride the waves :o if your a lesbian ;D
Yes, but do you remember what the female Marines were called?
Joelene
Quote from: Joelene9 on July 15, 2012, 08:42:59 PM
Yes, but do you remember what the female Marines were called?
Joelene
Can you tell? May you? Progress takes time, so... I'm learning.
Oh, ...
"accelerate your life"... really?!
OK, maybe in an F-14 Tomcat?
We did F-104 Starfighter and F-4 Phantom - only with a tie on ;D
Exhilarating (accelerating?) enough that was, and no one got seasick either, see? ::)
Axélle
Eugh! I have a slight phobia of water so there is no way you could get me to serve on a ship. I'll stick with the Royal Air Force, thank you. ^_^
In the Navy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InBXu-iY7cw#)
Quote from: AbraCadabra on July 16, 2012, 12:08:57 AM
Can you tell? May you? Progress takes time, so... I'm learning.
Oh, ... "accelerate your life"... really?!
OK, maybe in an F-14 Tomcat?
We did F-104 Starfighter and F-4 Phantom - only with a tie on ;D
Exhilarating (accelerating?) enough that was, and no one got seasick either, see? ::)
Axélle
Luftwaffe?
Only time I wore a tie (USAF) was on parade, when the wing King retired. And Basic, but that doesn't count LOL...
Quote from: AbraCadabra on July 15, 2012, 12:56:05 AM
Your guys, where'd you LEARN all this stuff ???
Well, not in the Air Force wearing a tie...
Axélle
Where else ...
In the Navy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InBXu-iY7cw#)
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fsmileys.on-my-web.com%2Frepository%2FAnimals%2Fferret-3.gif&hash=f49e2f86761323f2abd9c33941920389dbb3b10f)
What a copycat! If I were VM, I'd be pissed at you! Hugs, Devlyn
LOL... Who can't get enough Village People? :D
Quote from: Joelene9 on July 15, 2012, 08:42:59 PM
Yes, but do you remember what the female Marines were called?
Joelene
Bad Ass Bitches?
FF-1063 USS Reasoner
Named after a posthumous recipient of the CMH.
Quote from: Joelene9 on July 15, 2012, 08:42:59 PM
Yes, but do you remember what the female Marines were called?
Joelene
Quote from: Jamie D on November 09, 2012, 12:57:15 AM
Bad Ass Bitches?
BAMs Broad Assed Marines.
Joelene
This may pose new issues, like slippery toilet seats, or leaving them up for that matter.
Quote from: bubbles on November 09, 2012, 07:13:37 AM
This may pose new issues, like slippery toilet seats, or leaving them up for that matter.
or pee on the seat.
Responses from a bunch of "Wogs ", Polywogs that is! :laugh: