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To: jazusamo; xzins
and she was nominated for a promotion amid a drive for more diversity in the Pentagon.

If she had any pride at all in her profession, she would turn down this promotion based only on the fact that the WH is admitting that she is being nominated not because she is qualified (which she might be) but because they need diversity at the Pentagon.

What an insult to her accomplishments (whatever they might be).

24 posted on 07/17/2014 8:57:49 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: P-Marlowe; xzins

That’s correct...By precedent she’s not qualified for this command because she isn’t a pilot but she may be well qualified for a command in her field.


26 posted on 07/17/2014 9:02:56 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To command a nuke carrier, you HAVE to qualify as a plain, ole ordinary nuclear engineer that has qualified on the power plant, just like every other ensign does. Admittedly, not many chiefs are going to reject a signature for a captain when he needs to sign off on a operational question, BUT HE WILL HAVE TO TURN THE VALVES every time, the right way, at the right time.

So.

Why can she NOT qualify as a pilot?

Why can she NOT fly a plane? I didn’t say “fighter pilot” or bomber pilot?

I said “pilot” - even if as a civilian-not military with 100% eyeballs and full shooting pilot?


48 posted on 07/17/2014 11:15:29 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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