Eu diria que, muito mais do que uma cultura naval, trata-se de uma cultura
nacional. As FA's, queiramos ou n�o, refletem a sociedade. Se as fragatas
holandesas, por exemplo, possuem tripula��es mistas isso demonstra o estado
social daquela na��o. Outro exemplo extremo s�o as tripula��es indianas,
onde o sistema hier�rquico � t�o arcaico (segundo o ponto de vista
ocidental) que parece coisa do s�culo XVI.

Pergunte sobre o embarque de
mulheres em navios da marinha do Ir� para um iraniano e voc� ter� um inimigo
para o resto da vida.

Apenas uma quest�o cultural ... e n�o naval.

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De: Alexandre Moraes de Castro e Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Data: Segunda-feira, 15 de Novembro de 1999 23:13
Assunto: Re: [naval] NYT de hoje: Mulheres nos Submarinos Americanos


>mas a questao, poggio, � que a marinha tamb�m tem sua pr�pria cultura.
>cultura naval � um assunto naval tanto quanto cultural.  senao... eu
escrevo
>sobre historia naval e vc vai dizer que isso � um assunto que deve ser
>tratado em hist�ria, e nao em marinha.  que discutir sobre a revolta naval
>de 1893 n�o � um assunto naval?  dif�cil de nao ser...
>
>amcs
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>-----Mensagem original-----
>De: Guilherme Poggio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Data: Segunda-feira, 15 de Novembro de 1999 13:53
>Assunto: Re: [naval] NYT de hoje: Mulheres nos Submarinos Americanos
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>>Eu acho que � um assunto muito mais cultural do que naval. Devem existir
>>f�runs de discuss�o por a� que levariam a coisa mais para o lado da
>>igualdade de oportunidade, quest�es legais/sociais, etc. A minha opini�o
>>sobre esse assunto seria a mesma dada pelo Capt. Michael Tracy:
>>
>>"Making submarines bigger would limit their speed and maneuverability.
>>Squeezing in additional bunks would mean losing something else, like
>>weapons."
>>
>>e ponto final.
>>
>>
>>-----Mensagem original-----
>>De: Alexandre Moraes de Castro e Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Para: Lista Naval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Data: Segunda-feira, 15 de Novembro de 1999 10:38
>>Assunto: [naval] NYT de hoje: Mulheres nos Submarinos Americanos
>>
>>
>>>Pros que acham que a discuss�o de homossexuais na marinha n�o � um
assunto
>>>naval (n�o entendo isso! o que poderia ser mais assunto naval que isso?!)
>>>talvez v� achar que esse tamb�m n�o �.  Enfim...  Eu acho muito mais
>>>interessante discutir essas quest�es de �tica e comportamento nas
marinhas
>>>do mundo do que comparar sidewinders com piranhas ou coisas assim.  At�
>>>entendo nego n�o gostar, tem gosto pra tudo, n�o entendo � nego vir dizer
>>>que � off topic!!
>>>
>>>    November 15, 1999
>>>
>>>
>>>    New Debate on Submarine Duty for Women
>>>
>>>    By STEVEN LEE MYERS
>>>
>>>    ORFOLK, Va. -- Women in the U.S. Navy today command warships and
pilot
>>>combat jets off aircraft carriers, but there remains one part of the
fleet
>>>where they cannot serve: aboard the nation's nuclear-powered submarines.
>>>
>>>    Now, an influential military advisory committee has reignited the
>>debate
>>>over the exclusion, recommending that the Navy plan to revamp existing
>>>submarines and begin building new ones with the separate bunks and
>>bathrooms
>>>necessary to allow women to join one of the service's most storied and
>>>traditional fraternities.
>>>
>>>    "It's important we re-examine what is still closed to women," said
>Mary
>>>Wamsley, the chairwoman of the group, the Defense Advisory Committee on
>>>Women in the Services, the Pentagon's main body that recommends policies
>on
>>>the issues that face women in the armed forces.
>>>
>>>    The recommendation has provoked a flurry of protests from those
inside
>>>and outside the Navy who believe that putting women side by side with men
>>in
>>>the extraordinarily tight confines of a submarine would disrupt the crew
>>and
>>>compromise its war-fighting ability.
>>>
>>>    It has exposed a significant rift between the Navy's civilian
>>>leadership, led by Richard Danzig, the secretary of the Navy, and some of
>>>its senior officers.
>>>
>>>    Danzig signaled support for integrating the submarine fleet in a
>speech
>>>to the Naval Submarine League last summer, but in the ensuing controversy
>>>over his remarks, he retreated. In the speech, he warned that the
>>"submarine
>>>community" -- a tightly knit cadre of crewmen and officers -- risked
>>>becoming dangerously out of touch with society if it did not adapt to
>>>include women, as well as more minority submariners.
>>>
>>>    "The most Narcissus-like thing about creating something in your own
>>>image, about being in love with your own image, is the continued and
>>>continuous existence of this segment of the Navy as a white male
>preserve,"
>>>he said.
>>>
>>>    But here in Norfolk, home port for the Navy's Atlantic Fleet and 12
of
>>>its 57 nuclear-powered attack submarines, the "white male preserve" has
>>been
>>>largely unmoved by Danzig's concerns and the committee's recommendations.
>>To
>>>them, the singular experience of spending weeks submerged in tense,
>>>claustrophobic conditions -- with little space and no privacy -- makes
the
>>>introduction of women virtually unthinkable.
>>>
>>>    "I only know one way, the way I was brought up," said Cmdr. James
>Foggo
>>>III, the commanding officer of the USS Oklahoma City, an attack
submarine.
>>>"I've been doing this for 18 years, and it works well."
>>>
>>>    Danzig's aides insist that he merely hoped to spawn a debate with his
>>>remarks last summer, not impose a change, but no sooner had he delivered
>>the
>>>speech than the Navy's top admiral, Jay Johnson, flatly rejected the
idea.
>>>"For us, for me as chief of naval operations, I do not intend to change,"
>>he
>>>said.
>>>
>>>    Navy officials have not publicly responded to the committee's
>>>recommendation, saying that they must first provide additional
information
>>>the committee requested. The officials said the issue was not dead,
noting
>>>that the Navy reviews the restrictions annually, but they emphasized
that,
>>>for now, the service has no intent to lift them.
>>>
>>>    The advisory committee, however, said that the issue cannot wait --
>not
>>>only because of questions of sexual equality, but also because of
>>>practicality.
>>>
>>>    Despite offering extra pay, the Navy has had difficulty recruiting
>>>enough men to serve aboard submarines, in part because of the more
>rigorous
>>>intellectual and psychological standards they must meet. Permitting
women,
>>>who today make up 14 percent of the Navy's 370,000 personnel, would
vastly
>>>expand the pool of potential recruits.
>>>
>>>    The Navy has also begun building the next generation of submarines,
>>>known as the Virginia class, which, like today's submarines, will have
>>>berthing areas designed for an all-male crew. Not including
accommodations
>>>for women now, the committee said, would make installing them in the
>future
>>>significantly more expensive or keep women off submarines for decades to
>>>come.
>>>
>>>    "Because submarines currently in the fleet are expected to stay in
>>>service as long as 40 years, plans must be made now for gender-integrated
>>>crews," the committee wrote in its recommendations. "This would allow the
>>>assignment of the most highly qualified personnel regardless of gender."
>>>
>>>    Many of the arguments on both sides are the same as those made when
>the
>>>Navy first allowed women on support ships in 1978 and on combat ships in
>>>1994. Since then, women have joined crews even on ships once considered
>too
>>>small for mixed crews, most recently the Navy's mine hunters.
>>>
>>>    The Navy prohibits women from serving in 33,000 positions, about
>25,000
>>>of which are aboard submarines. The other areas are in the Seals and in
>>jobs
>>>that directly support Marine combat forces deployed aboard Navy ships.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>    Other navies, including those of Australia, Norway and Sweden, have
>>>removed sexual barriers on submarines, but U.S. Navy officials quickly
>>point
>>>out that those crews are not subjected to the arduous cruises of American
>>>submarines, which can remain submerged for days or weeks at a time.
>>>
>>>    "In addition to personnel stress inherent in all combat vessels,
>>>submarine crews must endure long periods of submerged operations,
>>>unrelenting crowding, lack of privacy, infrequent communications with
>>family
>>>and the outside world, no ability even to go topside for fresh air and a
>>>view," a 1995 assessment by the Navy said. That report also cited a
higher
>>>incidence of health problems with women, among other things.
>>>
>>>    Ms. Wamsley and others dismiss those concerns. "It is ludicrous to
say
>>>the living conditions and psychological conditions have more of an impact
>>on
>>>women than on men," said Ms. Wamsley, the deputy chief of police in
>>Commerce
>>>City, Colo.
>>>
>>>    Even proponents concede that submarines pose unique challenges for
>>>integration, all of which were evident aboard the Oklahoma City, whose
>crew
>>>is preparing to head to sea on a training exercise on Monday.
>>>
>>>    At 360 feet long, tip to tip, the submarine seemed impossibly
crowded,
>>>even without its full crew. The Los Angeles class of submarines was built
>>in
>>>the 1980s for a crew of 108; with additions like Tomahawk cruise missiles
>>>that require additional personnel, the Oklahoma City now has 145.
>>>
>>>    Passageways are so narrow that crewmen have to turn sideways to pass
>>one
>>>another, chest to chest. The enlisted men share two bathrooms and sleep
>>>stacked three deep in racks small enough to make turning over
problematic.
>>>
>>>    When at sea, the lowest-ranking crewmen have to share bunks, sleeping
>>in
>>>shifts. To minimize that unpopular practice, known as "hot racking," the
>>>submarine has installed mattresses in its torpedo room. Only the
commander
>>>and executive officer have private rooms, each no bigger than a closet.
>>>
>>>    "The thing about submarines is, space is a commodity," Foggo said,
>>>sitting in the officers' ward room, which serves as dining hall,
>conference
>>>room, chapel and, in case of medical emergencies, operating room.
>>>
>>>    Capt. Michael Tracy, chief of staff for the Atlantic fleet, said the
>>>constraints complicated the integration of women. Making submarines
bigger
>>>would limit their speed and maneuverability, he said. Squeezing in
>>>additional bunks would mean losing something else, like weapons.
>>>
>>>    "Anything we give away for bunks, we're giving away combat
>capability,"
>>>he said.
>>>
>>>    Even the seemingly simple alternative of putting women in the smaller
>>of
>>>the submarine's existing enlisted-men's berthing areas would raise
>>problems.
>>>A recent Navy report noted that fewer women would share one of the two
>>>bathrooms, forcing more men to share the other, raising questions of
>>>equality. That would also not answer the question of what to do with
women
>>>who are officers.
>>>
>>>    Also, because of submarines' design, crewmen have to operate critical
>>>electronic, hydraulic and air systems that pass through berthing areas,
>>>meaning they would need access at all times to areas where women would
>>>sleep. Even the commander's room has a valve for the submarine's ballast
>>>tank, which can be operated only by reaching over his fold-out bed.
>>>
>>>    Then there is cost. The Navy estimates it would cost $300,000 per
bunk
>>>to integrate submarines because of wholesale design changes that would be
>>>needed. Converting aircraft carriers costs $4,000 per bunk.
>>>
>>>    Still, some in the Navy think a change is inevitable. "If they want
to
>>>make it happen, it can happen," one senior Navy official said. Another
>>noted
>>>that Johnson's tenure as chief of naval operations ends in June, and the
>>>Navy's civilian leaders could raise the issue again under a new chief.
>>>
>>>    Even in the fleet, opposition is not universal. Aboard the Oklahoma
>>>City, Fireman David Cross, an enlisted man, said that as a matter of
>>>equality, it would be a good thing to introduce women into submarines'
>>>fraternal world. As for potential problems with privacy, he said, "It's
>>just
>>>like anything else in life: You have to adjust."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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