Posted on 04/23/2011 6:54:38 AM PDT by BBell
Way to go Allegra!!!!!
The women who I had the privilege to associate with kept their cool under fire. (including you).
Those who criticize from the comfort and safety of their living rooms posses tunnel vision.
LOL!
During NBC training when we were putting on the MOPP gear, I also asked, "Don't these come in a better color? This bright yellow really just doesn't work for me."
Once, at Shield in '07 when we had just run into a bunker during close-in IDF, it was all nervously quiet for a minute. I (the only civilian in there) broke the silence with, "Damn, I broke a nail!"
The guys all cracked up and a Colonel said "Thanks. I needed that!"
If you don't have a sense of humor, you'll never get through these deployments. :)
Why thank you, sir. :) I remember we got some wild ones when we were both in the IZ at the same time.
Those who criticize from the comfort and safety of their living rooms posses tunnel vision.
Yeah, the keyboard dictators. Aren't they a hoot?
To the Left, the answer is obvious. A military version of the law that makes it illegal for colleges to spend more on male sports activities than female sports activities.
That would solve the problem better than recruiting an all short army.
Dear Allegra,
Thank you for your service.
Your personal freedom has nothing to do with who should serve where in the armed forces.
I never intended to make this discussion personal, and the fact that many brave women volunteered to be put in harm’s way is completely unrelated to the arguments as to whether they should be.
I hope you don’t mean to say that opinions contrary to yours should not be expressed on FR.
Kudos - you've nailed it!
Once, the helicopter I was riding in lost power and I didn’t have any trouble at all urinating in flight.
I don't believe I said or implied that at all.
But I do have the right to respond to opinions contrary to mine and I exercise that right.
I never intended to make this discussion personal, and the fact that many brave women volunteered to be put in harm’s way is completely unrelated to the arguments as to whether they should be.
But we're here and we chose to be. Therefore, personal freedom does play a part in that.
Don't get me wrong - I do not support women being in combat units. When our troops were doing things like cleaning out Sadr City and pounding Fallujah, there were no women on those missions and I believe that's how it should be.
But these modern wars have no front line, so anybody in theater is vulnerable to hostile attacks.
We know it before we come here and we just deal with it.
I tell newly arrived troops who get nervous when they experience their first incoming how long I've been here and I waggle my fingers and show them that everything is intact. I do this to help them get over "first incoming jitters."
There's going to be a certain amount of risk no matter what role you play here.
I recall flying out of Iskan. I took out my plates, and when I boarded the helicopter, I sat one on the seat, and the other was low on the backrest. The crewchief asked me what I thought I was doing. I told him that ground fire will come from below, so I was protecting myself and those parts that are important to me.
Needless to say, he didn't buy it..........
Out at AA, the client was aghast when I told them that I didn't wear body armor when I was outside the wire. They never quite understood that many of the locals equated body armor and weapons with someone who was going to subjugate them and they wouldn't talk openly.
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