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To: Vendome

I don’t see how this works when you have them hump a 100 pound backpack 10 miles through terrain. And let’s be blunt, these aren’t “women” in the normal sense.


18 posted on 04/24/2015 1:04:53 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: DaxtonBrown

about that there 100 pounds...

When I was in the USAF in the 1970s they decided women could be aircraft mechanics..this was pushed by some old biddies who probably were never in the military themselves but wanted things equal for females...

Well the next few women who enlisted found themselves to be packed off to their first bases as mechanics most without desiring to be mechanics at all...HEY !!! we have a social injustice experiment going here and its all good !!!

Well in the USAF men could carry up to 60 pounds but women by law were only to carry up to 40 pounds...

Those young women with their well manicured fingers got out on the flight line to find they were required to carry their own tool boxes weighing 100 pounds out to the planes to fix them just like the men did and the men would not help them even though the women expected them too...

OH NOEZ

and the men could not legally be ordered to carry those boxes for the women..the 60 pound rule...and ah every man for himself etc..

I heard it straight from the women who declared the men ungentlemanly and typically whatever word was used for “sexist” back then (I forget) LOL

I forget what the USAF did to accommodate the women but they did something..something they wouldn’t have done for the men...


33 posted on 04/24/2015 1:53:14 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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