08.10.2009
A Navy spokesman at the Pentagon told The Kitsap Sun it's preparing a notification to Congress, a necessary administrative step.
Lt. Cmdr. John Daniels says women officers could begin training as early as next year.
Many of the women could be sent to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, home to eight
Trident ballistic missile submarines and two cruise missile subs. Six other
Tridents and two more cruise missile subs are based at Kings Bay, Ga.
Daniels says the conversion to mixed-gender crews would begin with
Tridents because of their size - 560 feet long with a beam of 42 feet.
Women have been allowed to serve on Navy surface ships since 1994.
Source: , picture from bowdoin.edu
