Does a CVN carry a "psychologist", and could such an officer be a female?

Question

jr psych major hoping to become a navy psychologist.

Answer 1

An aircraft carrier is a floating city. So I am sure there are psychologists on board. Maybe even female ones. When the time comes, ask your detailer.

Answer 2

I served on the Enterprise (CVN 65) A carrier's medical department does include a mental health professional, but I'm pretty sure it is a psychiatrist. Females can serve in the surface fleet in all capacities. Woman can do anything in the Navy except submarine duty and special warfare (SEALS)

Answer 3

yes though it be a officer position, CVN are basically floating cities that include hospitals, so yes it can be a woman, only ship a woman can't serve on is a submarine and that is because it seems a woman was on a sub it go down with the woman not pregnant and come up pregnant, its true, my advice to you would to look into a NROTC program to better prep you and give you a good chance for being put where you want to be put after you graduate if your GPA is good enough

Answer 4

Yes and Yes. All carriers are now retrofitted to allow women to serve if they weren't built that way.

You would need at least a masters though I would think....

oh, and to those who don't know, CVN is the Aircraft Carrier designation.

Answer 5

I am former Army and therefore not familiar with "CVN," but there are women officers who are psychologists in the military.

Answer 6

most of them are Psychiatrists, not Psycologists. They would primarily be stationed at shore installations and not on sea duty. carriers would only have a few general practioners and maybe a surgeon.

Answer 7

Probably. I see no reason why a woman couldn't do the job.