Bye Bye, Urinals

[cjjtulsa]

No more urinals for future aircraft carriers.

The U.S. Navy's new class of carriers will be the first to go without urinals, a decision made in part to give the service flexibility in accommodating female sailors, the Navy says.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/11...-have-urinals/

[thegomezclan]

I wonder if the men are going to be required to put the seat down?

[andrsnsm]

Just pee over the side of the ship, problem solved unless you are one of the submariners.

[Sanjuro82]

What's next...will all our ships be retrofitted with powder rooms....

[Lurker66]

I say good riddance. One less thing to clean or PM.

[reddog1]

Maybe they will require females to lift the lid back up, when they are done?

Will they encourage males to sit down to pee now too?

With all the feminizing levels of BPA (Bisphenol A) leaching from food plastics, that should not be too hard of a task.

[okwarren]

Will they encourage males to sit down to pee now too?

Patrick you may not believe me when I tell you this, but that has already happened in Germany. In fact, not only do they encourage it, they ridicule you if you pee standing up.
They will call you some sort of derogatory term, which is their equivalent of our term "redneck."

I suppose they had it coming though. Germany has a very conformist culture.

[Navy_chief]

Well,
I can say good riddance as well. When I was a Damage Controlman for the first 10 years of my Naval Career one of the things we had to do was unclog Urinals on the ship in the berthing compartments.

We would hook up an 1 ½” fire hose from the fire station and the wye gate to the urinal and with lots of fanfare and a lot of seawater pressure blow out the clog it would blow out the urinal hit the roof/bulkhead and deck with urine and water we would wrap up our hose and leave the coop cleaners to deal with the mess.

I can tell you this is smart on the Navy's part we would have to unclog way more urinals then we ever had to unclog commodes. Also it will require less plumbing to just install commodes saving taxpayers money as well in the short and long term run.
NC

[HMFIC]

What's next...will all our ships be retrofitted with powder rooms....

Why is this the first thing I thought of when you said that lol...

[reddog1]

Proud redneck / stand up and pee type here.

[Lurker66]

Well,
I can say good riddance as well. When I was a Damage Controlman for the first 10 years of my Naval Career one of the things we had to do was unclog Urinals on the ship in the berthing compartments.

We would hook up an 1 ½” fire hose from the fire station and the wye gate to the urinal and with lots of fanfare and a lot of seawater pressure blow out the clog it would blow out the urinal hit the roof/bulkhead and deck with urine and water we would wrap up our hose and leave the coop cleaners to deal with the mess.

I can tell you this is smart on the Navy's part we would have to unclog way more urinals then we ever had to unclog commodes. Also it will require less plumbing to just install commodes saving taxpayers money as well in the short and long term run.
NC

haha coop cleaners, what memories. No wonder i hated being on a ship.

[Popjim]

Another improvement being made to improve our military!

[been]

what if you have to go to the bathroom while your in an F-18 going 1,000 mph 75000 feet in the air?

[ahamay6]

Phewww?! I thought by the subject line that someone had under gone gender reconstructive surgery.

[OKNewshawk]

what if you have to go to the bathroom while your in an F-18 going 1,000 mph 75000 feet in the air?

You use the relief tube...