Back from combat, women struggle for acceptance

AP via Yahoo ^ | 14 Dec 2009 | KIMBERLY HEFLING

[Hotmetal]

I’d buy you a beer.

[Nepeta]

Marxism, Communism, Socialism, Fascism, Feminism...

“The place of the family as a shut-in petty enterprise was to be occupied, according to the plans, by a finished system of social care and accommodation: maternity houses, creches, kindergartens, schools, social dining rooms, social laundries, first-aid stations, hospitals, sanatoria, athletic organizations, moving-picture theaters, etc. The complete absorption of the housekeeping functions of the family by institutions of the socialist society...”

- Leon Trotsky, 1879-1940 -

Are you really asserting that having respect for a woman who has in fact handled combat/live fire, is akin to Marxism and Fascism?

One more time: women have no place in combat. I have now repeated it three times in this thread. That said, I don't think they belong at home dusting the furniture during wartime, either.

[PzLdr]

‘Preciate it. Actually, New York City threw us a parade in the ‘80s. And afterwards, we all went to the USS INTREPID Air/ Sea Museum on the Hudson for a beer party.

So I got my parade and my beer. Didn’t get to kiss a pretty girl, but hell, two out of three wasn’t bad - for a Nam Vet.

[swmobuffalo]

“I don’t really WHAT YOU find “offensive”.”

That’s obvious from your highly inflated sense of ego.

[myknowledge]

In reality, there are no more front or rear lines.

Today's 21st century warfare is a 360 degree non-linear battlefield. Survival depends on having a pistol, rifle and some ammo.

[myknowledge]

The Soviet Union?

The Soviet Red VVS (air force) had both of the world's only female flying aces, but they were KIA.

The Western Allies, perhaps?

U.S. WASP pilots may have covertly went into combat in either the European or Pacific theaters and they're not even in the history books.

[wardaddy]

The Soviets towards the end of the war used the Night Witches...a female squadron

which was related pilotwise by the Flight of the Rodina

an old girlfriend of mine and her BFF repeated that flight a few years back doing an around thw worlder in a Maule.

I am unaware as the son of a former USAF fighter pilot of WWII women flying combat for the Allies