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*The REAL Miss America*
Reaganite Republican ^ | 16 November 2012 | Reaganite Republican

Posted on 11/16/2012 12:37:32 PM PST by Reaganite Republican


Vanessa Dobos is a gunner on board a USAF AC-130 gunship. 

The blue-eyed blonde has seen action in Iraq and Afganistan, and enjoys long walks on the beach, men who aren't afraid to cry, and puppies.

Vanessa's dislikes include feed-tray stoppages, tracer flareout of her NVGs and premature fixed-wing strikes scattering her 
high-value targets...

The 19 year old former Ohio high school cheerleader is in-fact the Air Force's first female aerial gunner ever:

Raised in the small town of Valley View, Ohio, her interstest in the military was sparked by her father. Described by Dobos as 'a history buff', her dad talked a lot about America's past heroes while they often watched classic war movies...

'He instilled in me so much respect for our country's past heroes' she said.


She 'loves her job', but that doesn't mean it's been easy: besides having to win-over doubters re. her ability to handle the heavy machine gun, Airman 1C Dobos luckily survived a nasty chopper crash in Afghanistan that resulted in 5-7 rolls down a hillside and one airman dead/others severely injured...
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Military.com   Snopes   h/t Kirby



TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: air; banglist; force; militarywomen; usaf; women
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1 posted on 11/16/2012 12:37:40 PM PST by Reaganite Republican
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To: AdvisorB; sten; ken5050; paythefiddler

*** PING ***


2 posted on 11/16/2012 12:38:53 PM PST by Reaganite Republican
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To: Reaganite Republican

You go Girl!!!


3 posted on 11/16/2012 12:40:05 PM PST by Halgr (Once a Marine, always a Marine - Semper Fi)
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To: Reaganite Republican

She certainly wins the talent competition, but Ms Congenialty may not come easy with what she’s packin.


4 posted on 11/16/2012 12:40:58 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: Reaganite Republican

“Be still my beating heart!” Me

“Yeah, I can fix that.” Vanessa


5 posted on 11/16/2012 12:51:52 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: Reaganite Republican
More recent photo, from her Facebook page:


Vanessa Dobos Scheutzow

6 posted on 11/16/2012 12:52:09 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: Reaganite Republican

The question one has to ask:

Was she chosen over someone who would have been better?


7 posted on 11/16/2012 12:54:11 PM PST by SC_Pete
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To: Reaganite Republican
Guy:That's a lovely fragrance you're wearing. What is it?
Gal: It's called GSR. Do you really like it ?
8 posted on 11/16/2012 1:01:22 PM PST by llevrok (I haven't left America. It left me.)
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To: SC_Pete

No one really has to ask that.


9 posted on 11/16/2012 1:02:41 PM PST by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: Reaganite Republican
I'd like to be a fly on the wall a few years hence, at her 10-year HS class reunion with her fellow former cheerleaders:

Cheerleader #1 - So, what did you go and where did you go after HS?

AC130 GNR - I went to Iraq and Afghanistan so I could kill people, break things, and blow sh*t up.

Cheerleader #2 - Ooooo, wasn't that icky and gross?

AC130 GNR - No, it was cool...my mini-gun could put one round in every square meter of a football field in seconds. Took out an entire column of Taliban that way...nothing left that couldn't be picked up with a spoon! LOL...

(sounds of barfing from #1 and #2)

10 posted on 11/16/2012 1:03:58 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Reaganite Republican

You might need to change that to Mrs. America. :(


11 posted on 11/16/2012 1:05:22 PM PST by EEGator
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To: SC_Pete

Why, might i ask, should this question even come up?


12 posted on 11/16/2012 1:06:59 PM PST by O6ret
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To: T-Bird45
Cheerleader #1 - So, what did you go and where did you go after HS?

CORRECTION: Cheerleader #1 - So, what did you do and where did you go after HS?

13 posted on 11/16/2012 1:07:05 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: cynwoody

Dang!

She’s married...

So sad, too bad...buh bye...


14 posted on 11/16/2012 1:08:22 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Reaganite Republican
WOW she is HOT!!!

...The lady is cute too.

15 posted on 11/16/2012 1:08:29 PM PST by CygnusXI (Im back!)
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To: SC_Pete

You must be new round ear....

We know what her qualifications are......

I’d hit it, spank, film it and watch it again before going to sleep....


16 posted on 11/16/2012 1:10:24 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: SC_Pete

Well, she is an attractive woman, and I respect her for serving. I simply don’t see why she deserves any more kudos than anyone else unless we do it solely to celebrate the notion that women can do everything a man can do, be just as ruthless and violent as men, give birth to a child, and be attractive to boot.

It is the feminist fantasy, the one they push over all others.

I passed by the television where my wife was watching the local evening news, and there was a story about an improbable comeback by a high school team to win on the last play of the game. They had time to run one play to go the length of the field (maybe one second left) and it involved a fake and two laterals to succeed. Pretty improbable play, so I hesitated to watch. Lo and behold, boom, they executed the Rube Goldberg play, and won the game.

Do you know what the remainder of the broadcast segment (lasting far longer) was about?

Their kicker who was a girl.

That was what they gushed about. That she was a girl. She didn’t have to kick the tying or winning point with no time or anything like that, she just had to be the correct gender.

That play to win the game was pretty remarkable, to have been executed to perfection, as complicated as it was. But it was an afterthought.


17 posted on 11/16/2012 1:10:30 PM PST by rlmorel (1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American kLiberals have a lot in common.)
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To: O6ret

Of course, in a world of objective standards of performance, that question would never come up. The reason why police forces switched to 9 millimeter handguns in the 70s was because girls couldn’t handle .38 Specials. LOWERED STANDARDS.

Next, they will want women on Seal teams. When the extreme end of the bell curve eliminates all but a very few kickass males. Feminists want to push girls to the front of the line. Why are there no women basketball centers in the NBA?
It’s obvious to us, but not to the politically correct crowd.


18 posted on 11/16/2012 1:20:17 PM PST by SC_Pete
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To: rlmorel

Years ago, some corporate sensitivity trainer tried to convince a group of us that women could be front line special forces.

I told her, “When you can force march 15 miles through ankle deep sand with 70 pounds of gear on your back, get back to me.”


19 posted on 11/16/2012 1:23:42 PM PST by SC_Pete
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To: Vendome
She’s married...

Yep. In 2005, she was involved in a terrifying (is there any other kind?) helicopter crash in Afghanistan, in which one person was killed. The mission had been to evacuate an Afghan elections monitor who had been accidentally shot. One of the pilots was 1st Lt. Benjamin R. Scheutzow.

20 posted on 11/16/2012 1:25:07 PM PST by cynwoody
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