Women fighters will share rooms with male Royal Marines commandos for the first time under controversial plans put forward by the head of the navy.
Of course, it rather depends on what you think the definition of “working” is.
Ah, waitta minute. This is for the initial training course only. Will all be too shagged to shag.
In Nelson’s time women often put to sea with the royal Navy, hence the term “son of a gun”.
There’s lots of sitting around bulling boots and shoes, ironing and generally cleaning anything that does run away.
Plenty of time for nookie.
Energy? These are 17-20 year olds. Of course they’ve got the energy.
A daft idea from a couple of blokes who can’t remember when their libidos were the controlling elements of their minds.
There’s lots of sitting around bulling boots and shoes, ironing and generally cleaning anything that does not run away.
They’ll be doing the ironing obviously…
BiC,
I didn’t meet any squaddies who would let their wives in to the same room as their uniform and an iron let alone iron it.
Before we got married I was away for a day helping a friend. I specifically told her not to touch my uniform, I’d do it when we got back. She ignored me and it took hours to get the tramlines out. She claims to this day she didn’t do it on purpose and having seen her try to iron her own clothes I believe her.
“Many officers are said to have ‘raised their eyebrows’ at the proposal.”
A euphemism for “are they mad?” if ever I saw one.
Its not a bad preemptive move though. When the inevitable happens and women start to fail the course they won’t be able to blame being treated differently.
Risks exposing the MoD to large-scale legal liability here, was my first thought. Perhaps I’m too unkind.
As frisky* as an Olympic Village.
*I’m open to alternatives.
Prepare yourself for allegations of an army ‘rape culture’, rape being defined by activists as “men looking at women forced to cohabit in the same room”.
Call me a cynical old bastard, but the presence of large numbers of blindingly young fit blokes is why the birds want to play soldiers in the first place, isn’t it?
It’s not the Army Rob.
Naked bar should be fun.
Don’t the commandos sleep naked? The women will too then?
Comments from Royal:-
“I guess that any woman who walks into CTC with the potential to pas the 30 weeks of training in front of her will probably just turn round to the troop, flash her breasts at them and say “They are my tits, any of you lot try to touch them and I’ll break your fingers”.”
And the pragmatic:-
“Do the gayer blokes get their own accom? What about the bi-whatsits, how do you not bunk them in with someone they might fancy?”
I’ll be living in a mixed mess this weekend – despite sharing houses and occasionally ablutions[1] with reasonably comely lady officers, I’ve never had any snugglebunny-type action out of it. Doesn’t mean it’s never happened to anyone, but the Service Test applies – if it causes a problem, trouble will follow.
[1] We’re put up in a patch of former USAF married quarters, whose build quality and cheerful ambience leads to it being nicknamed the “Chechen Village”…
It’s the only ironing I do …
Oh, boy has life changed in the RN / RNR since the backside of the last millennium!
“Energy? These are 17-20 year olds. Of course they’ve got the energy.”
Hmm. I suspect you don’t know much about the Royal Marines’ training course.
How long will it be before we hear calls to make the entry (oo-er Missus) and the training easier in some way?
A week or two after the first girls get beasted on the PRMC, I reckon. ISIS will be guffawing into their beards; will we ever learn?
(And btw all that ironing etc is called “Admin” in that particular corps)
“any woman who walks into CTC with the potential to pas the 30 weeks of training in front of her will probably just turn round to the troop, flash her breasts at them and say “They are my tits, any of you lot try to touch them and I’ll break your fingers””
Quite so, but knowing the men with the potential to pass the commando training course, that will be interpreted as a challenge to be accepted. Indeed, failure to accept said challenge might quickly become grounds to fail the course…
@ The Pedant-General
Yeah, quite plausible. I assume that she would be carrying a ball hammer to break the guys’ fingers.
Last month I was talking to an ex-army officer (not even a Commando just fairly good army) who is an inch or two shorter than me and the conversation drifted from the weather to the recent fatality – in training he had been yomping over the Brecon Beacons carrying more than my weight (at that age – middle-age spread means I now weigh half-a-dozen lbs more).
I assume that Tamara Press could break a commando’s fingers but …
I suspect you’d be rather surprised.