[Regal]

It’s a common “awareness” campaign. I was in Ohio last year this time and a minor league baseball team did it. Had a guy try to run bases in heels. No big deal. Nothing sexual, or deviant about it. Nothing to see here.

[ohioman]

If you don’t have a problem with this then maybe you should leave FR.

[true believer forever]

"It’s a common “awareness” campaign. I was in Ohio last year this time and a minor league baseball team did it. Had a guy try to run bases in heels. No big deal. Nothing sexual, or deviant about it. Nothing to see here."

One man's no big deal, is another's dead father, son, brother, sister, daughter, mother. Great heroes have died wearing the uniform paraded in this punked up tasteless cavorting. The uniform, the legacy, the history, the freedom - something to see here.

[CatherineofAragon]

"It’s a common “awareness” campaign. I was in Ohio last year this time and a minor league baseball team did it. Had a guy try to run bases in heels. No big deal. Nothing sexual, or deviant about it. Nothing to see here."

Oh, yeah, guys in women's pumps...perfectly natural. Cute, even! Why, what normal conservative male wouldn't agree with you? /S

[rlmorel]

I disagree. This is not a “common awareness campaign”, and this isn’t some minor league baseball team.

This is the U.S. Army.

Since when do we need an official mandate from upper echelons to let the troops know that rape is against the law and against the UCMJ (for whatever that stands for now)

When I was a young man, I knew that rape and sexual coercion was wrong. I had a mother and father who taught me values, and I sure didn’t need a commanding officer to make me wear damned high-heels to make the point.

And even IF these cadets/recruits are of such low moral fiber, due to whatever rationale one has to pull out of a hat, broken families, degenerate society, whatever you choose, this isn’t how you do it. You tell them they will be subject to the laws and regulations of the service, and that there will be no tolerance of any illegal conduct, and any infractions will be punished fully to the extent of the law under the UCMJ.

And then ENFORCE the laws. THAT is how the military should be run. Not some ridiculous “awareness campaign” if that is even what it is, since I believe it is INDOCTRINATION in the most damaging aspects.

This is a disgrace, not “nothing to see here”.

[jpsb]

You are so wrong. This is an attempt to humiliate men for being men. The commanding officer is sexually assaulting all the men under her command by forcing them to ware sexually humiliating attire. Remember Abu Grad(sp?).

Further the order to ware the sexually humiliating attire is an unlawful order since it is against Army (and all other services) regulations for members of the Army (and all other services) to ware any part of the uniform and not be in uniform. You can not ware just part of the uniform you must ware all of the uniform and those shoes are not part of the uniform!

If I were Gen Lesbos commanding officer I'ds court marshal her ass and throw her in the brig for a long long time.