US Navy sailor gives birth while on deployment

[KLB]

Ship not a boat. Submarines are referred to as boats.

Yes, well, I was in Naval ROTC and was commissioned in the Marine Corps. When an ROTC friend who'd been commissioned in the Navy invited me aboard his DD, I made sure to compliment him on his boat.

[The Annoyed Man]

Ship not a boat. Submarines are referred to as boats.

Yes, well, I was in Naval ROTC and was commissioned in the Marine Corps. When an ROTC friend who'd been commissioned in the Navy invited me aboard his DD, I made sure to compliment him on his boat.

[bblhd672]

Ship not a boat. Submarines are referred to as boats.

Yes, well, I was in Naval ROTC and was commissioned in the Marine Corps. When an ROTC friend who'd been commissioned in the Navy invited me aboard his DD, I made sure to compliment him on his boat.

Well played!

Of course those of us in the submarine service recognize only two types of ships: submarines and targets!

[anygunanywhere]

Ship not a boat. Submarines are referred to as boats.

Yes, well, I was in Naval ROTC and was commissioned in the Marine Corps. When an ROTC friend who'd been commissioned in the Navy invited me aboard his DD, I made sure to compliment him on his boat.

Well played!

Of course those of us in the submarine service recognize only two types of ships: submarines and targets!

FTW

[G26ster]

Submarines must be the safest "boats" because, as we all know, there are more airplanes in the ocean than there are submarines in the sky!

[JALLEN]

So I wonder - on the "Place of Birth" on this kid's passport, what'll it say? "On a boat somewhere"?

I believe being born on a US military facility entitles you to be natural born in the US for purposes of qualifying to be President. John McCain, for example.

The birth certificate likely will read "aboard the USS Umpty-ump at Lat. Long......"

[Glockster]

ship left port in June, she was already preg. and shouldn't have been on board. As for not knowing....I don't understand how you can't tell the movements of the baby? how can you not know you are growing another human? that's just weird to me, but they've made several seasons of a TV show based on it.

She's stuck with her "I didn't know" story because Navy regs says she must report the pregnancy within two weeks of confirmation by medical care provider.

Therein is the out so to speak in that if she did not get that confirmation she had nothing to report, by the regulation.

[Glockster]

ship left port in June, she was already preg. and shouldn't have been on board. As for not knowing....I don't understand how you can't tell the movements of the baby? how can you not know you are growing another human? that's just weird to me, but they've made several seasons of a TV show based on it.

I didn't see anything about the baby being full term. This could conceivably be a case of she got pregnant and didn't know prior to the deployment, and was within the 20 weeks. And it could also be a case of her finding out but not wanting to miss the deployment. As crazy as that sounds folks tend to do things to get out of the deployment, not to go on it. She easily could have had an out if she knew and didn't want to deploy as if she notified them and they were making ready to deploy they probably would have pulled her long before required so that they might have a chance of getting someone else onboard in her place.

The guidance from Navy Personnel Command about deploying is: "Pregnant servicewomen may remain onboard up to the 20th week of pregnancy while the ship is in port. A servicewoman discovered to be pregnant while underway/deployed should be transferred ashore as soon as possible given the constraints of the ship’s location, current mission, next port call, health of the servicewoman and/or unborn child(ren), etc. Under no circumstance shall a pregnant servicewoman remain onboard past the 20th week of pregnancy."

[anygunanywhere]

Ship not a boat. Submarines are referred to as boats.

Yes, well, I was in Naval ROTC and was commissioned in the Marine Corps. When an ROTC friend who'd been commissioned in the Navy invited me aboard his DD, I made sure to compliment him on his boat.

He was being gentlemanly. No self respecting tin can driver would call his ship a boat.

[SewTexas]

My dad was a submariner. we got to go on a "family cruise" once. It was a ton of fun as a pre-teen. Now that I'm an adult, and have had a couple of babies....I just can't imagine giving birth on a sub by choice....that just blows my mind. But you're right it doesn't say anything about it being a full-term baby. I've also read that if the baby is sitting far enough back that mama might not even feel real movement (huh)