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Air Force general is 1st woman at top-tier US combat command
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Posted on 05/13/2016 9:33:16 AM PDT by traumer

The Air Force has just two female four-star generals, and one is about to become the first woman to head a top-tier U.S. warfighting command, but that may not be the most remarkable thing about her.

Gen. Lori J. Robinson takes over the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command in Colorado on Friday. People who know Robinson describe her as the personification of a new generation of leaders, someone who understands the Air Force has a broad role in space, cyber security and drones, not just flying and fighting.

"Gen. Robinson reflects that change as much as anything else," said Maria Carl, a retired Air Force colonel who serves on the Military Affairs Council of the Hawaii Chamber of Commerce. Carl didn't serve under Robinson but worked with her in her Chamber of Commerce role, when the general headed the Pacific Air Forces at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.

"She has an ability to take all the different pieces of the picture and pull it together strategically," Carl said.

Robinson wasn't available for an interview before she officially started her new assignment at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs.

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KEYWORDS: culturalsuicide; daccowits; feminism
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1 posted on 05/13/2016 9:33:16 AM PDT by traumer
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“She has an ability to take all the different pieces of the picture and pull it together strategically,”

Wouldn’t that make her an ideal staff member?


2 posted on 05/13/2016 9:34:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Makes you wonder.

You know O won’t be happy until gays or transgender people command every branch of the armed services.


3 posted on 05/13/2016 9:38:47 AM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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Bad Vlad’s shakin’ in his boots


4 posted on 05/13/2016 9:39:12 AM PDT by Regulator
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DACOWITS strikes again.


5 posted on 05/13/2016 9:40:14 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: BenLurkin

NORAD is a big enough responsibility. Why so many other jobs? Drones can’t shoot down a TU-160 penetrating the ADIZ at high speed and low altitude, can they?


6 posted on 05/13/2016 9:44:08 AM PDT by Wildbill22 (They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton Williams Abrams)
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Defense Ministers of Five NATO countries (Albania, The Netherlands, Germany, Norway and Italy)

This is the Russian Defense Minister.

Just makes you feel all nice and secure, don't it?

7 posted on 05/13/2016 9:44:38 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Yeah right a female Von Moltke the Elder....


8 posted on 05/13/2016 9:45:23 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: traumer

Trump should vet them for the VP spot.


9 posted on 05/13/2016 9:46:37 AM PDT by Helicondelta
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Yeah but WHICH RESTROOM will she use ?


10 posted on 05/13/2016 9:48:47 AM PDT by traumer
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Her bio says she is married to a USAF Maj General.

I'm pretty sure she is comfortable in the ladies room.

11 posted on 05/13/2016 9:56:45 AM PDT by pfflier
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And she isn’t even a pilot. And we put her in charge of an entire theater. That’s our Air Force today.


12 posted on 05/13/2016 10:02:28 AM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,)
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“Her bio says she is married to a USAF Maj General.”

Just to be clear, since the Fraud-in-chief cares especially about “marriage”:

Robinson is married to retired Air Force Major General David A. Robinson.


13 posted on 05/13/2016 10:08:39 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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People who know Robinson describe her as the personification of a new generation of leaders, someone who understands the Air Force has a broad role in space, cyber security and drones, not just flying and fighting.

Student waving hand wildly says "Oh, oh, oh! I know what you forgot!"

"Muslim outreach!"

/s

14 posted on 05/13/2016 10:24:06 AM PDT by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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People who know Robinson describe her as the personification of a new generation of leaders, someone who understands the Air Force has a broad role in space, cyber security and drones, not just flying and fighting.

Student waving hand wildly says "Oh, oh, oh! I know what you forgot!"

"Muslim outreach!"

/s

15 posted on 05/13/2016 10:25:02 AM PDT by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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To: TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed

Militaries exist for two reasons only:

1. Killing the enemy.
2. Breaking their things.


16 posted on 05/13/2016 10:25:10 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Is she a homo? Is she a tranny? Enquiring minds want to know.


17 posted on 05/13/2016 11:07:46 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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I love they way they call a cocked up mess a “new generation of leaders”.


18 posted on 05/13/2016 11:53:06 AM PDT by Seruzawa (If you agree with the French raise your hand. If you are French raise both hands)
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Someone never in combat is now the head of it all. More politics and social degeneracy in the military.


19 posted on 05/13/2016 1:11:48 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarme)
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How many hours does she have in an F-15? She flew the heavies - C-5, C-141, or C-17?


20 posted on 05/13/2016 1:21:02 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty.)
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