Word: aboard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...professional; he knows he doesn't want to end his career here." Moss, who was twice West Virginia's high school player of the year, may play for the Dawgs again--or he may not. He slipped out of the Lehigh University Arena without talking to reporters and hopped aboard a private plane, presumably headed as far away from obscurity as possible...
Female sailors visited the sick bay aboard one of the U.S. Navy's ships nearly 10 times more than their male counterparts, a "startling difference" the Navy had not expected to see, according to a new study. "With a female-to-male visit ratio of more than 9 to 1, the conversion of a ship with an all-male crew to 10 percent female would essentially double the clinical workload of the ship's medical department," says the article in the latest issue of Military Medicine, a respected professional journal for U.S. military physicians...
...study, conducted by Dr. G. Michael Summer, involved the USS Frank Cable, a repair vessel based in Guam. Summer, who was the medical officer aboard the ship from 1996 to 1998. His research found that over a six-month period during his service aboard the Cable, "female crew members accounted for 72 percent of the total visits [to the ship's sick bay] while constituting only 22 percent of the crew...
...concluded his report by calling for more study as to why women may be using medical facilities aboard ships at a higher rate than their male colleagues, even for gender-neutral problems. "Although some questions remain, one fact is clear: The addition of female crew members will significantly increase the workload of a ship's medical department, probably to a greater degree than expected," he said...
Such reports are extremely sensitive in the Navy, which gained a reputation for unfairness to women following the Tailhook convention of Navy aviators in 1991 where dozens of women were sexually assaulted by drunken pilots. Since then, the Navy has pushed hard to put women aboard nearly all of its vessels except for submarines. Last year, the first female skipper took a U.S. Navy warship on a real-world mission to the Persian Gulf. But suggestions that precious Navy funds are going toward more frequent doctors' visits by female sailors will raise anew questions about the wisdom of putting women...