Posted on 04/30/2008 5:59:33 AM PDT by paterfamilias
I have been enjoying this series a great deal. How about you?
That was a new one for both me and my wife. We both laughed too hard at that one. She did 13 on the Acadia. Ours was a Navy family. I was not allowed to serve, unfortunately, but I knew all the ships and the slang.
Never bitched or whined once, huh?
I don’t think you’ll be allowed to see one get evactuated when it happens, which is very frequently as you know. Of course, how frequently is a matter of conjecture because the military won’t release statistics. In the brigade I was with we had the equivalent of five platoons (a company plus) nondeployable for combat at any given time. Of course, the SF, the Ranger Regiment, the (as you know) Silent Service, don’t have to put up with the nonsense for the most part.
Do I?
“Homosexuality was mentioned once, for about 3 minutes”
It seemed like a lot more than 3 minutes to me. They gave the impression that homosexuality was very prevalent on the carrier and portrayed homosexuals as victims and criticized the military for not being more open towards homosexuals. All part of the liberal propaganda talking points.
I believe there is no better example of why women should not be in a combat zone, or aboard ship in the US Navy. If I’m not mistaken the present situation was directed on the military by congress.
Nevertheless, they are doing the job and no one is denigrating their efforts. It is just not wise policy, to put men and women together 24/7 and not expect the obvious result.
I have never agreed with the present policy of placing women in harms way. It does nothing for women and is more of an idea generated by those in the womens liberation movement which has died, except for this particular aberration that remains.
Nurses are one thing, combatants another thing entirely, and therefor I’m agin women in combat aircraft as well. Flame away Ya’ll.
Are we watching the same program?
The other things, showing a young enlisted mans anguish over his pregnant girlfriend not emailing him.. was not bad.. because it was happening.. but it was over done.
Another annoying thing last night was the highlight of the pilot who was getting out and trying to get off the carrier to go home..
But all in all.. it was a good watch on PBS for once...
USS Kitty Hawk bump
I can’t figure out how they managed to get every person they talk to to get screwed up. The pilot whose wife told him on camera that she was pregnenat, then miscarried, The guy on the command track who manages to screw up his career by sleeping with an enlisted female who’s also a focus of the show, the racist kid who gets kicked out.
They must have filmed far more people who were succeeding like the girls who got promoted to Yeoman, and then edited many of their comments out in favor of the failures.
It’s a good show, but the bias is getting sickening.
Those who pay attention would know. Perhaps you were paying attention to Dick Danzig’s musings instead, I don’t know.
Bingo!
I had to stop watching it - after the third enlisted man in a row talked about how much he HATED life on the carrier and the USN.
This must have been filmed by the Michael Moore...
Wait...PBS... same thing.
Dang.
But you admit in reply 43 that you don't know. You have no idea how big a problem it is today. All you have is conjecture, fueled by your own biases against some military personnel. All we know for sure is that there are tens of thousands of women in the military, the overwhelming majority of which do difficult job in a professional manner, and do that job very well. Cut them some slack.
I found this article about the missing sailor:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/5733281.html
I find this series fascinating. I am impressed with the kind of skills some of the young kids have and how much responsibility they have. I was shocked at the sex incident, especially since that guy was the SAVY that night. I mean, what in the world was he thinking? I don’t get the pregnant girlfriend who won’t email, and who seems to have nothing to say to her boyfriend on the phone. What’s up with her? I felt sad about the pilot and his wife losing the baby. And the lost sailor was so tragic. We emailed a sailor on a carrier for a couple of months, and this helps us understand what his life was like.
“High School Musical at Sea” LOL, valley girls, indeed!
It’s cliche’, but kids are different these days, I guess. My dad was Navy and one thing I learned early on was that once you sign your name on the dotted line you become property of the US government. The sooner you accept that your life is no longer your own, the easier it will be. These ladies haven’t figured that out yet. Don’t they tell them this when they sign up??!
I had to chuckle about the one girl who was whining that an officer got to see the doctor before her, and he arrived after she did. T/S, that’s the peckin’ order, hon. Deal with it. Crap like that happens in the civilian world too.
I would hope that the whining is just from boredom and if the sh*t really hit they fan, training would kick in.
Actually I don’t know that; I know the military was forced to rely on lower standards and quota’s from Jan 1992 to Jan 2001 and little has been done to reverse the trend.
Yes it more or less is the same thing. It’s really the difference between say, Evan Bayh and Ted Kennedy; more stylistic than anything else.
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