Nope, I don’t. However, I believe people should be given the chance to prove themselves. If they can’t make the grade, they can’t make the grade. I went through reserve Marine basic. Same thing guys did. I passed. No special privileges. I got yelled at just the same, ate the same mud, repelled off cliffs like them, the whole scene. My dad was a Marine pilot in Vietnam, I have two brothers that served in Iraq One and my mom is a military brat. I’ve been there and done that. I was thirteen and and dropped off in the forest behind my home. We live on five acres that abuts a national forest. All I had were the basics and I spent three days out there on my own. All I ever asked for or wanted was a chance. I’m now an FAA certified pilot. I fly bizjets and now work in Australia as a pilot for the Royal Australian Flying Doctors. I put planes down in the outback that’d scare the living crap out of any Marine pilot. So I am a paid up dues player. Too many guys think that women are too fragile to do anything but make sandwiches and have babies. You try pushing something the size of a watermelen through an orifice of your body then tell me how very unphysical we are.
You're talking to the wrong dude.
LOL bs!
Don’t waste your time writing to these types (his screen name pretty much tells me all I need to know).
My son is a fighter pilot (wizzo), USAF. They have quite a few women pilots and wizzo’s. The females seem to make good wizzo’s (something to do with less machismo and more deliberate behavior (or brains) I suspect). A lot of these guys don’t seem to realize (when was the last time we engaged in serious air-to-air dogfights?) that in this day the danger is not such combat with enemy planes, but much more the DOD lawyers hanging over you if you hit the wrong target (not to mention CNN reporters!).
I do laugh, however, when I am told that being a pilot of that type is not very strenuous. Jeremy Clarkson did a good special on F-15E’s, where at the end he points out that he was more tired than anything else he had ever done (which is a lot, if you watch his show).
My daughter is a SSGT, USMC. Graduated from Parris Island (after a Bachelor’s and two Master’s degrees). I wonder if any of these macho guys could be a Lioness in Iraq or Afghanistan, Hmmmmm?
Anyway, the joke here is that if the two of them go into a bar and have a “problem”, it will be my daughter who gets my son out of the “problem”, not the other way around.
Now THAT is hot! Seriously, I admire a great many things about you based upon that one post and tenacity is certainly one of them.
I’ll bet you can really spin a yarn based upon life experiences like those. Do you ever write about your life?
It is to laugh. I went to Jump School at Ft Benning in 1980, after BUD/S Training in Cali. About a dozen ladies in our Jump School class. If any of them ever typed what you just typed above, I would be laughing my ass off until next Christmas. That is so delusional. I feel sorry for you, for your separation from reality. Maybe, with luck, you will get through life with your fantasies intact, and you will tell folks you "went through exactly the same boot camp as the guys." But we will just shake our heads and nod to each other, knowingly.
There is only Marine basic training, the Reserves do not have separate basic training schools.
Basic is 12 weeks long, after taking the man's basic training and naturally passing with flying colors, did you finish your full six years in the Marine Corp Reserves?
If the SHTF... and able men are not in abundance to defend the homeland, they would all thank their lucky stars that we have brave, able and trained young women to step up and take to the fight.
Your last sentence makes the whole point.
Ya work with what ya got, and if ya ain’t got it don’t try.
Some do, some don’t, and no amount of attitude will overcome not having it when it counts.
That was one of the sexiest posts ever.
No offense intended, but damn you made your point very well.