---
title: "Enlisted women are going to serve on Navy submarines for the first time ever"
date: "2018-03-31"
modified: "2020-10-21"
authors:
  - name: "Emma Liem"
    link: "https://www.wearethemighty.com/authors/emma.md"
url: "https://www.wearethemighty.com/intel/enlisted-women-submarines/"
categories:
  - "History"
  - "Military News"
  - "Navy"
---

# Enlisted women are going to serve on Navy submarines for the first time ever

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*Female sailors visit USS Ohio Photo: Flickr*

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The U.S. Navy is now recruiting enlisted servicewomen to serve on submarines in 2016.

This move will take the 2011 decision to integrate female officers into the submarine force one step further, assigning female chief petty officers and senior petty officers to co-ed crews.

Navy officers are reportedly optimistic about the transition process — even despite a video-taped shower scandal that took place aboard the USS Wyoming — one of the first subs to be assigned female officers in late 2011.

For more on this story, check out [military.com](<https://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/01/23/navy-recruiting-enlisted-women-for-submarine-force.html>)

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## Author
Emma Liem is an undergraduate student studying English and journalism at Lee University and currently serves as the managing editor of the Lee Clarion.

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