Q: Do male and female soldiers shower together?
A: \o
Officially, “Hell No!”
Even in a field training environment, females have to get shipped back-to the barracks once every I think three or four days, as it’s much riskier for a female to go days — or weeks; a month; more? — without performing such hygiene than it is for males.
“Equal”, right?
Unofficially?
It may occasionally happen in the Army or Marine Corps., though it’s certainly not supposed-to, and I’ve never seen it, in any way, “forced”.
There were a couple times out with just my deployment group in the field, post-deployment together, while none of us were interested in stickin’ around in the GA heat mid-summer without a shower, so we used new, never-used gas cans warmed in the sun to take “field showers” every couple days.
The girls would just pick somewhere a lil’ more remote, then watch out for each other during. There was an occasional “oops”, especially when look-outs failed, but all parties handled those … like fuckin’ adults?… so it wasn’t ever a big deal.
Also, while I was deployed and on a couple remote FOBs, there was a small handful of girls that ‘decided they preferred using the guys’ showers, as we kept’ em much cleaner than the girls did apparently, and were sneaking-in really late at night.
Of course, the few of us that noticed didn’t mind if the girls kept using ‘em, provided they didn’t care if they weren’t alone. Even though at least some staring was inevitable, the guys were still respectful about it, and again, it wasn’t ever an issue.
That would have been a major issue for many, & it’s sensitive people that now drive DOD policy.
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