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April 30, 2010 9:17 p.m. EST
Topics: politics, energy saving, defense, armed forces, discrimination, social issue, environmental issue, social issues, United States
Tejinder Singh - AHN News Correspondent
Washington, DC, United States (AHN) - April 30, Friday is an important milestone in the U.S. Naval history as the service began selecting the first batch of women who will perform submarine duty and the Obama Administration’s top civil, naval official on the day, reiterated that women to serve abroad submarines “is absolutely the right thing to do - and the right thing to do for the Navy.”
 
 Navy Secretary Ray Mabus addressed a select audience at the National Press Club luncheon, noting that the U.S. Navy has “an impressive group of young women” to choose from.
 
 Mabus disclosed that the initial group of women to serve on submarine duty, will be officers who will transfer from other vessels to serve aboard ballistic-missile and guided-missile submarines.
 
 Marbus reminded the audience that the Navy has 20 years of experience with women serving aboard surface ships, adding, “Frankly ... we could not run the Navy without women.”
 
 Navy Secretary Mabus stressed the potential of naval personnel, pointing that despite multiple deployments, Navy and Marine personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan “are the most skilled and resilient people I’ve had the honor to meet. The level of morale, recruitment and retention “is astounding.”
 
 On the question of ongoing struggle to handle the giant oil spill, advancing off the coast of Louisiana, Mabus, called the Navy, “only one piece” of the overall effort headed by the Department of Homeland Security and deferred comments on the service’s role in cleaning up the oily mess.
 
 Mabus, however disclosed that the Navy is providing more than 1,000 personnel and scores of ships and aircraft to the effort, “Whatever Homeland Security requests, we are providing” Mabus added.
 
 Mabus referred to his prepared remarks while speaking of his signature initiative: weaning the Navy off its consumption of fossil fuels.
 
 Because the Navy uses one-third of the Defense Department’s fuel usage, which in turn accounts for 90% of the government’s consumption, he called greater fuel efficiency a “strategic imperative.”
 
 Mabus defined the Navy’s first goal: “within 10 years, have all energy usage – both ashore and afloat – come from non-fossil fuel sources.”
 
 On the question of the proposed conversions, Mabus noted that the price of oil needs to be $150 a barrel to warrant conversion to a nuclear-powered fleet, but the Navy “is not ruling out any type of propulsion” for future ships “except to move away from fossil fuel.”
 
 Mabus went down the memory lane, marking out historical highlights in naval history of energy usage, the Navy changed from sail to coal in the 1890s, from coal to oil in the early 20th century, and then partly to nuclear in the 1950s.
 
 Although in each case critics objected to abandoning proved  technologies, “the naysayers were always proven wrong,” he concluded. 
 
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