Submarine Crews Face Big Changes in Coming Months: ; Sailors Won't Be Allowed to Smoke and May Be Serving with Women for the First Time
Charleston Daily Mail › April 23, 2010
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WASHINGTON - Imagine 150 fraternity brothers packed into a container the size of a three-bedroom house. Announce you are breaking hallowed traditions by taking away their cigarettes and admitting women. Then lock the doors and push the container deep into the sea, for months at a time.
That's what the Navy, after decades of contemplation and controversy, has decided to do with its Submarine Force, an elite fraternity of 13,000 active-duty sailors that has been patrolling the oceans for 110 years.See the full content of this document
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Submarine Crews Face Big Changes in Coming Months: ; Sailors Won't Be Allowed to Smoke and May Be Serving with Women for the First Time
As of Dec. 31, smoking aboard the entire submarine fleet will be summarily banned - no small hardship for the estimated 35 to 40 percent of sailors who are nicotine add...
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