in 2001 Martha McSally successfully challenged the military policy that required US and UK servicewomen stationed in Saudi Arabia to wear the body-covering abaya when traveling off base in the country.
If she had done nothing else this would get my vote. Anyone that stands up to the islamofacists and those spineless PC people in our Government and Military is my hero.
She did not successfully challenge anything. The media totally misrepresented the whole situation about the abaya.
As posted:
“She was a person that did not go through the chain of command to take her objections forward.”
“It was all about her. The US does/did not have a SOFA with Kuwait and therefore we had no protections in place so women had to play by the local rules.”
[that means the DOD could not tell troops, including her, that they could ignore local laws and rules. A SOFA allows the US first hack at US military members if they violate laws, and most importantly, a SOFA also exempts US servicemen from local laws and rules. We did NOT have a SOFA at the time, so she decided to throw a little hissy fit and jump outside the chain to push her own version of “ain’t-I-brave-fighting-for-womens-rights-against-the-mean-ol-DOD.”]
“But she thought she was special. That is wrong on many levels, as a leader is supposed to put service before self-she did not.”
“She was a marginal pilot and parlayed her sex into a shield to protect her career, always ready to file EEO complaints (she had several already filed in her past).”
“Basically, not that good a pilot, selfish and arrogant among even other fighter pilots. She was intolerable.”
It was all about her and no one else. She is an opportunist. Unbecoming of an officer.