Women in the military

[debilorrah]

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Only if it includes the MLB network.

 

[SourRoses]

Since turkey basters are used to baste turkeys...

Maybe I use them in my aquariums too....

But I know what they are... and I know what they're called

 

[Boyd]

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Do you have your aircraft mixed up? When I was in an Apache was a two seater attack helicopter that required two rated pilots, one sat behind the other. There was no place for a door gunner. Maybe she is an Apache mechanic that gets to ride on Blackhawks or maybe she is a Blackhawk mechanic that gets to ride on Blackhawks or maybe she is a Blackhawk crew chief. Sorry Boyd but I get picky about some details. I yell at movies when they botch military things up.

Yeah, blackhawk

My bad.

 

[chickened]

You seem like a smart person and can read between the lines and my posts some times are meant that way. When I am blunt inevitably some one cries to the mods usually after they are proven wrong by my directness. There is an old saying "if the shoe fits wear it" if not then I will quote a famous line by Dunkoff's avatar "what me worry?" (Alfred E. Newman)

By the way that might of been a reason as it was about 10 years ago when I had that discussion right after Bush was elected and the same old argument comes up about that particular subject. And for the record my 19 year old son just said his buddy joined because his father was riding him.

mom'sfolly :

Very few of the guys I see around here enlisting are doing it for "patriotism". Most seem to see it as a career path when they have few other options. The kid across the way would join up, if he'd finish his GED. No high school diploma, no GED, no training, and a low paying job with no prospects has this kid looking at the military as a place to get training, and get out with a better prospect than he has now. His younger brother is in jr ROTC, but is not officer material. He will join up for much the same reasons, but he will be graduating highschool, probably two years late, so has a heads up on his brother.

My kids are somewhat military obsessed, but I also know their personalities. The only way my older son could manage the military would be as an officer candidate. He may have an idea of patriotism, but the idea of guns and glory is the main driver for him. Admittedly he is only 13.

With an all volunteer military you are going to have millions of reasons for joining, for both men and women. I see many ads on the TV specifically targeting young women for military recruitment. I suspect most of them join for the same reasons young men do.

Chickened, you keep beating around the bush about the reason you or your pyschologist friend say are reasons for women to join the military. Spell it out, or don't say it at all, your "wink, wink, nudge, nudge, know what I mean" hints are annoying. If you mean that you think most women joining the military are gay or fleeing bad relationships with men, say it.​

 

[KristyHall]

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just because no one called you on it besides her doesn't mean most of us haven't read between your lines. your insults are not that cleverly disguised. frankly i'm appalled at your implications that military women either can't find a man, are gay, or are only good in use as covert ops by being little more than prostitutes for information.

 

[chickened]

Maybe I should put catchy little sayings and quotes below my posts so everyone can just read what kind of person I am and hopefully avoid the presumptuous attacks. Isn't being appalled a choice? after all isn't that what women have fought for? And since you brought up the subject finding a man and keeping one are two different things and it works both ways.

Whether or not you approve of it this is a man's world as EVIDENCED by the struggles of women in history, (if this were not true there would be no struggle) I think women sometimes get a raw deal at no fault of their own and that is unfair and wrong. But when a women enters that realm for whatever reason they seem fit they had better chin up and be prepared to fight like a boy and yes maybe get beat up like a boy and quit whining how unfair it is and just keep going forward. Men deal with that all the time.

This is my opinion and I apologize to anyone that reads it ask that you don't take it personnaly if it by chance resembles you.


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just because no one called you on it besides her doesn't mean most of us haven't read between your lines. your insults are not that cleverly disguised. frankly i'm appalled at your implications that military women either can't find a man, are gay, or are only good in use as covert ops by being little more than prostitutes for information.

 

[mom'sfolly]

Huh??!!!??????

Chickened, I really have no idea what you are talking about.

 

[kla37]

If a woman WANTS to serve, AND can keep up to the same standards as everyone else then that's fine with me, but it should be a choice. I don't want to do that and I don't want other people deciding for me. As a mother, I don't want women to have to start registering for the draft or anything like that. We are not all interested in that kind of thing.

 

[chickened]

You lost me on this one. please explain.

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[debilorrah]

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Chickened you have a pm