The Navy submarines open women for a day

31/01/14

Lieutenant Vessel Gabriella Manetto, from Capo Reparto Sonar of Nave Scirocco, experienced a training trip on the Scirè submarine.

An anti-submarine exercise, in which the Surface Units took part, off the coast of La Spezia DuilioMistral e Grecale.

A positive experience, as witnessed by the officer himself and by the most experienced “submariners”. Manetto is sure: “Positive experience that other colleagues interested in this position could have. On board these modern submarines - he added - there are no major difficulties to overcome, women will have no problem adapting to the living conditions of a submariner ”.

Since opening to women, with Law 380 of 1999, the Armed Forces have been adapted to female integration, except for some departments such as that of submariners, for which in 2006 the Advisory Committee, following an inspection on board the Underwater units, confirmed the limit for “pink” personnel. Ten years later, women have earned the right to become pilots, they are commanders of naval units, they are engaged in the most difficult and most distant operational theaters. While some NATO navies, such as that of the USA in 2011 and that of the United Kingdom in 2013, following the example of many others that had already done so in the past, such as the Scandinavian countries, Spain and Germany, have opened submarines to women. Germany, which has submarines identical to the Italian ones of the Todaro class, among other things the result of close collaboration between the two countries, has included women in the crews of the underwater units. At the Taranto Submarine Training Center last year a woman was qualified as an "Officer of the Watch" destined to embark on a submarine of the German Navy.

Source: Military Navy