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Air Force security troop wins right to wear braid as symbol of indigenous heritage
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| 11/10/23
| Patti Nieberg
Posted on 11/10/2023 3:44:57 AM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: canuck_conservative
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posted on
11/10/2023 4:35:44 AM PST
by
ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
To: gov_bean_ counter
There’s a balancing of the importance of self and the importance of country in the armies of democracies. We don’t goose-step. We march at a natural gait. We aren’t fanatics, looking to die for the country. We are calculating, willing to die, but realizing how important each one of us is. And, we invest a lot in med evac and in search and rescue and stuff like that. Fewer and fewer of us die from wounds on the battlefield, and - conversely - more and more of us come back from war badly hurt.
To: ansel12
are you saying the US Military is so fragile that it can’t survive one Native guy wearing a ponytail?
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posted on
11/10/2023 4:38:40 AM PST
by
canuck_conservative
(there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
To: canuck_conservative
youve never been in the military have you. you have no clue what it takes to get someone combat ready, what it takes for a platoon to be combat ready. what it takes for a military to be combat ready.
heres a clue.
we aint waiting on wah-hoo McDaniel to get his bun right to duck and cover and shoot back. wah hoo can just stand there fixing his pony tail and get his ass shot.
long hair is a liability.
suppose that man bun gets loose around rotating equipment? Wah-hoo deserves to be scalped, as does the entire judicial committee that allowed this future darwin award recepient to be in their military.
otoh canuck/ idiot, you always have been faster than any knowledge or common sense sent your way. you're a down right "tag" never caught champion!.
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posted on
11/10/2023 4:41:12 AM PST
by
Ikeon
(I stopped going to my family doctor whenever I felt sick. I've never been healthier. .)
To: Ikeon
he works security FFS
you’re getting worked up over nothing
do you hate Natives?
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posted on
11/10/2023 4:45:16 AM PST
by
canuck_conservative
(there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
To: ronnie raygun
So the women will want to wear their hijab, and the Jews their kippa, and those with darker tone in their epidermis will want to wear multi colored scarfs..the bring in the Amish with their overalls..SO IT IS NO LONGER UNI....FORM.
To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
Accommodate them in a separate Division, along with all the rest of the coming labels to be called “religious” accomodations.
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posted on
11/10/2023 4:49:27 AM PST
by
Varsity Flight
( See"War byc🙏🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
To: canuck_conservative
Canuck trying to get that lower body workout in by jumping to conclusions.
He said “part of the problem”, Canuck. It’s a symptom not the disease.
We were winning when I left.
RLTW.
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posted on
11/10/2023 4:50:46 AM PST
by
military cop
(I carry a .45....cause they don't make a .46....)
To: canuck_conservative
Ive been hearing “get a grip “America (or the Air Force)will survive this over a million “little” things for the last sixty years. Minimizing attacks on Order is how we got drag queens in libraries. Americans of 1963 wouldn’t even recognize their country now. A million crumbs adds up to one hell of a mountain after a while. The mission is more important than this dumb ass and his hair.
29
posted on
11/10/2023 4:51:42 AM PST
by
TalBlack
(We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
To: canuck_conservative
Survive what?
In case it’s escaped your notice the US is no longer a republic.
It’s Deep State’s military, not America’s.
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posted on
11/10/2023 4:52:22 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Never give up; never surrender!)
To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
Even Elvis shaved his head.
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posted on
11/10/2023 4:53:23 AM PST
by
Varsity Flight
( See"War byc🙏🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
To: canuck_conservative
You’re not an American.
You’re not a man.
You’re not a Veteran.
Your opinion is meaningless.
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posted on
11/10/2023 4:55:18 AM PST
by
EEGator
To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
Things sure have changed—when I enlisted in the early 70s and took issue with the Army regulation haircut, to paraphrase my platoon sergeant's retort, “the Army doesn't change to please you, you change to please the Army.” That remained a constant theme through to my eventual retirement from the Air Force in 2000—when it came to regulations it was never about individual.
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posted on
11/10/2023 4:56:38 AM PST
by
DaBroasta
("An armed society is a polite society" Heinlein)
To: bosco24
He is from the Mohawk Nation. How come he is not in a mohawk cut with war paint like the Filthy Thirteen 101'st AB Demolition Section? Oddly enough, when I was in the Air Force, the Mohawk was the only haircut specifically prohibited in the regulations by name.
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posted on
11/10/2023 4:58:09 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
To: EEGator
if you want a police-state culture, move to Russia, China or North Korea
sounds like you’d like it there better
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posted on
11/10/2023 5:01:21 AM PST
by
canuck_conservative
(there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
It never ceases to amaze me how people fixate on the dumbness and not the important parts as if the only reason to have a military is so generals have something to inspect on a parade grounds. Most of the rules for grooming standards are stupid, as evidenced by how quickly they are abandoned by special operators the moment they can get away with it.
This airman cut his hair for basic, went through proper channels for an exemption, and is, from all appearances, able to do the job of a security forces airman competently. If a female can have long hair and accomplish the mission, so can a male. Keep it neat and clean and don’t be a disruption.
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posted on
11/10/2023 5:03:54 AM PST
by
jz638
To: jacknhoo
Somebody could grab hold of that and give him a good snap.
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posted on
11/10/2023 5:11:29 AM PST
by
virgil
(The evil that men do lives after them )
To: HartleyMBaldwin
No.
Rubbed off (ever get an “Indian haircut”?), except for the hair stripe.
38
posted on
11/10/2023 5:11:49 AM PST
by
Alas Babylon!
(Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
Once they let women in with long hair, why not men?
The next thing is to lower the fitness standards for men to match the already low standards for women... "Integrity" or something like that.
To: rovenstinez
So the women will want to wear their hijab, and the Jews their kippa, and those with darker tone in their epidermis will want to wear multi colored scarfs..the bring in the Amish with their overalls..
no
when you can show that your ancestors lived in North America for hundreds/thousands of years before the United States was even created, you'll get a special exemption too
that doesn't apply in any of your examples
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posted on
11/10/2023 5:14:37 AM PST
by
canuck_conservative
(there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
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