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New Bill Would Open Air Force to Deaf
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| Aug 11, 2014
| Bryant Jordan
Posted on 08/13/2014 4:32:38 PM PDT by SZonian
Deaf and severely hearing impaired individuals could soon serve in the Air Force if legislation introduced in July by a California lawmaker is passed.
An Air Force captain convinced U.S. Rep. Mark Takano, D-California, to introduce a bill that would allow deaf and hearing impaired people to serve in the Air Force as part of a pilot or demonstration program.
Current Defense Department hearing requirements bar the deaf from serving, as well as individuals who currently require or previously used a hearing aid, or have a cochlear ear implant.
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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: airforce; deaf; usaf
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More social experimentation in the services...sigh.
There are probably jobs they can do, but camel's nose under the tent comes to mind.
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posted on
08/13/2014 4:32:38 PM PDT
by
SZonian
To: SZonian
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posted on
08/13/2014 4:35:58 PM PDT
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
To: SZonian
The transgendered will beat them in by several years.
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posted on
08/13/2014 4:36:02 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
To: SZonian
WHAT??????
To: SZonian
I think it is more important to introduce females into submarines, OH sorry already did that.
FORWARD!
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posted on
08/13/2014 4:36:32 PM PDT
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: SZonian
LOL! This is like hiring female firemen when there are more than enough males for those jobs.
To: SZonian
"Upon taking office, Takano became the first non-white openly gay member of Congress."
Source.
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posted on
08/13/2014 4:37:25 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
To: SZonian
semaphores from the tower?
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posted on
08/13/2014 4:39:01 PM PDT
by
llevrok
(Straight. Since 1950.)
To: SZonian
He could be part of the “Very Special Forces.”
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posted on
08/13/2014 4:39:21 PM PDT
by
rey
To: SZonian
The Air Force has always been open to the deaf. If you don’t believe me, just try telling the average Air Force officer something that conflicts with what he believes.
To: SZonian
Turning the military into a Social Experiment test-bed.
Deaf into AF, women into Navy subs, gays into USMC
They all get to pass out food while “nation building” or constructing girl schools...
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posted on
08/13/2014 4:41:10 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: SZonian
Saves money on the “Mickey Mouses.”
To: SZonian
“There are probably jobs they can do, but camel’s nose under the tent comes to mind.”
We’re all deaf on the Ramp....
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posted on
08/13/2014 4:43:14 PM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(Q)
To: All
So glad I posted this in Chat...no dealing with the admin mods for posting in News as the thread spirals out of control...the responses so far are pretty much as expected from my FReeps...classic!
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posted on
08/13/2014 4:44:51 PM PDT
by
SZonian
(Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
To: SZonian; Slings and Arrows; GeronL
Are seeing eye dogs permitted in the cockpit?
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posted on
08/13/2014 4:44:59 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
To: SZonian
What’s next, hiring blind people to be driver’s instructors?
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posted on
08/13/2014 4:48:16 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
08/13/2014 4:49:23 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: Gay State Conservative
He said
DEAF GAYS
would open new bills sent to the Air Force
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posted on
08/13/2014 4:49:35 PM PDT
by
Zeneta
(Thoughts in time and out of season.)
To: SZonian
Dobbs on the bosun's whistle?
Vanderbilt as the lookout?
Hoffenmueller as the translator?
-PJ
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posted on
08/13/2014 4:50:08 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: a fool in paradise
No, but the altimeter and horizon indicators will be in Braille.
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posted on
08/13/2014 4:51:45 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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