The documents posted below provide factual information and historic context on the issue of American military women serving on submarines.

Additional information is provided in relevant sections of an article by CMR President Elaine Donnelly, titled “Constructing the Co-Ed Military,” in the June 2007 edition of the Duke University Journal of Gender Law & Policy.

Finally, information on this topic can be researched by key word in current and archived editions of the “CMR Notes” section of this website. Researchers may request a temporary password through info@cmrlink.org.

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Navy Ignores Warnings of Health Issues for Women on Submarines

RADM Hugh P. Scott, MC USN (Ret.) letter to HASC Chairman Ike Skelton, 11 March, 2010.

Navy Submarine Medical Research Laboratory Technical Report #1219, The Medical Implications of Women on Submarines, 26 November 2001.

SAIC - Submarine assignment policy assessment (published February, 1995)

RADM Hugh P. Scott, MC, USN (Ret.) letter to HASC Chairman Floyd Spence (published June 12, 2000)

DACOWITS RFI: Forces Utilization Navy Response regarding submarines (published January, 2007)