Well finally getting over the flu...yay. Went to the ER, and you know what they say..."well there's not a whole lot we can do for you. You're just going to have to get over it." (I have been doing this for about a week) 

What is confusing to me, why was the media portraying the flu as the huge awful disaster, go to the doctor if you have flu symptoms, oh no! The ER is just going to say, well go home and drink plenty of fluids and take some pain meds.  I have had the flu for a week and a half so we were curious to see how they were treating it now...

Ha...not so different, go home and rest, drink plenty of fluids.  Yep the Pandemic of the 21st century, don't you just love our politicians?

http://www.military.com/news/article/navy-set-to-crew-subs-with-female-sailors.html?col=1186032325324&ESRC=navy-a.nl

So the Submarine service wants to do the politically correct thing and allow women on submarines...

I think this is a bad call for a few reasons. 

As a wife I'd definitely be worried about fraternization and infidelity you name it. The motto for a lot of sailors is "what happens in port stays in port." This doesn't go over well with your spouse, no matter how understanding she may be of military life.

Physically, women are smaller than men. We don't have the stamina to work the long shifts that men do. Aaron works 12 - 13 hour days right now. Some days its 16 hours of nonstop labor. 

Women can get pregnant when they have sex, fact of life. Sorry guys...  but a pregnant woman cannot work around potential radioactive equipment, she'll have to air lifted off the sub, and a new under experienced person will be evac'ed in. 

And then there's the camaderie that is at stake here.  Why do we as women feel that we need to invade? Give them their own submarines, for all women. Men do not act the same as women period, they don't like the same jokes, and sometimes they don't even have the same sense of humor. 

Having some hot 18 - 25 year old working with you on a sub, under water for 3 months with no other contacts, I mean are you really going to be concentrating on your job?  As professional as they think they can be, nature will take over.

Ask Aaron, he got off the boat for a week in Hawaii on my birthday, and told me quite gleefully that he was going to take pictures of girls in their bikinis at the beach(guys do forget that wives don't necessarily like hearing this).  His naturally understanding wife, told him to go to hell, and hung up on him. Nature takes over, after a few months at sea, men come back...well they come back really in love their wives. 

Let's put the temptation right there with them...I think that's probably my biggest problem with it.  And you might give me a hard time, that I don't trust my husband, but in the bible it teaches us to flee that kind of temptation. And on a sub, lets face it, there's no place to flee to.  I'm a wife.  I don't want or need the added stress of wondering if my husband is banging, or even 'falling in love with someone who understands military life better than you do' when he's out to sea.  The latter incident actually did happen to a lady up here, her husband left her and their kids for a another woman from the boat. Fraternization is a huge problem on surface ships. You think they'd take a lesson from the book, but lately the idiots in Washington keep on moving forward.