Norway's Solveig Krey, the world's first female submarine commander
Julian Stockwin made a comment on Twitter this morning (what is the past tense of “to tweet?” by the way) regarding women on submarines. He noted that Norway has had women serving on submarines for decades. Indeed, the US will be at least the sixth country to allow women to serve in the Silent Service. Norway was the first in 1985, followed by Denmark in in 1988 and Sweden in 1989. Australia followed suit in 1999 while Germany and Canada allowed women onboard in 2001 and 2002 respectively. Spain also allows women to serve aboard subs, which does pose a new range of challenges.
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