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To: Future Snake Eater

Does anybody but me doubt the general’s story?


9 posted on 02/08/2013 9:53:41 AM PST by shove_it (Long ago Huxley, Orwell and Rand warned us about 0banana's USA.)
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To: shove_it
Does anybody but me doubt the general’s story?

There was a recent Episode of "Last Man Standing" that featured an female Iraq war vet that had lost both her legs. She was a Turret gunner.

12 posted on 02/08/2013 9:59:03 AM PST by verga (A nation divided by Zero!)
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To: shove_it
I join you in doubting the story.

When a general asks a soldier to identify themself, the correct answer is not "Amanda" -- nor is it "Steve", "Bill" or "Stan".

"Corporal Henderson, sir!" might be a good attempt.

46 posted on 02/08/2013 11:27:53 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Nothing will change until after the war.)
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To: shove_it

It’s probably true. He was a DIV commander, so he was in a DIV HHB, meaning there were likely plenty of females around, and one of them got tasked to be a turret gunner (it’s probably a rotational basis kind of tasking).

If the good general actually believes that standing in a Humvee turret is the same as being an Infantry Soldier, well....I don’t know what to tell him.


51 posted on 02/08/2013 12:56:04 PM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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