First female carrier boss

[megan]

Email recieved The first female CO (desig) of a nuclear-powered carrier has been selected for command.The USN’s aviation major command screen board has selected her for the position by FY22, although it is not yet clear which of the 11 nuclear carriers she will be appointed to. Bauernschmidt received her wings in 1996 to fly with the helicopter AS Squadron Light 45 ‘Wolfpack’ in San Diego. She deployed with the destroyer USS John Young in the north Arabian Gulf before going on to accumulate over 3,000 flying hours in various localities from Alaska to Asia. More recently she served as XO aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, itself a nuclear-powered carrier, and in command of the amphibious transport dock the USS San Diego. Service is about “contributing to something greater than yourself,” Bauernschmidt recently told CBS News.“For me, it is about supporting and defending the Constitution of the United States. But it’s also about these young men and women that I lead every day,” she said. “They’re pretty awesome.”

https://www.wisn.com/article/1st-woman-to-command-u-s-navy-aircraft-carrier-is-from-milwaukee/35085947

BZ Ma'am, congratulations

[ORAC]

Link doesn’t work here outside USA. Another below.

https://www.cpf.navy.mil/news.aspx/130788

[Union Jack]

Link doesn’t work here outside USA. Another below.

https://www.cpf.navy.mil/news.aspx/130788
Which helpfully indicates that this very smart lady will be back on board USS LINCOLN. It is worth recalling that, prior to taking command of a carrier, a USN Captain must have commanded a carrier-borne squadron, served as Executive Officer of a carrier, and commanded another "deep draft" vessel.

Jack

[etudiant]

Which helpfully indicates that this very smart lady will be back on board USS LINCOLN. It is worth recalling that, prior to taking command of a carrier, a USN Captain must have commanded a carrier-borne squadron, served as Executive Officer of a carrier, and commanded another "deep draft" vessel.

Jack
That seems like a good way to build experience. The downside might be that it avoids exposing one to very different approaches. Perhaps that explains why the Navy is so conservative.

[Asturias56]

Different navies do things different ways

IIRC you have to have a degree in nuclear engineering (or at least a very intensive training course at the NNPTC) to command a US SSN or SSBN whereas the RN still appoints "generalists"

As long as everyone knows what they're doing it all seems to work either way

[racedo]

Good enough to do the job, then good enough to do the job.

Mind you the media will be hard to spin this as someone getting a top job because she is caring and compassionate, claiming that her feminine side makes her ideal for the role. Somehow these characteristics are not high up on the list of a CVN boss in the business of projecting military power. I can't wait to see the spin on it.

[Herod]

As racedo says: "good enough to do the job." She certainly hasn't been appointed as the "token female", but because she is capable for the post.

[Training Risky]

As racedo says: "good enough to do the job." She certainly hasn't been appointed as the "token female", but because she is capable for the post.
Can you be absolutely 100% sure about that?!

This is an age where every major public appointment (and many corporate posts) in the western world is subject to political interference, egged on by a wolf pack of seedy PR and HR spin doctors spouting poison about how appointments will look to the metoo, BLM and the other pointless cr@p pressure groups?!