Posted on 09/19/2005 5:19:11 PM PDT by nevergore
My premise is that women shouldn't be in the military. The experience at the AFA is simply a snapshot into what happens with a coed military.
The other military schools are no better. Not too long ago I recall a hot car ring being operated by students and graduates at Annapolis. The Navy tried mightily to cover it but failed.
Not too long ago, I was accosted at an Annapolis restaurant by three drunken Annapolis instructors that insisted on using the worst of obscene language. I asked them politely to show some respect for others, that was a mistake.
Two followed us from the restaurant and wanted to take care of me. Real officers and real gentlemen, I was outnumbered and well over seventy years old.
http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/r/robbins/2005/robbins082705.htm
You might consider learning something more about the scandal. MSM feeds and you eat, apparently. See my post above, also.
I am afraid that you are so right.
Just this past Sunday I was encouraging my grandson to consider the AF. We even went on line for information of the Academy.
I am reliably informed that male cadets at the Naval Academy have to be "vewy, vewy careful" in respect of the females.
The old adage that "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" has taken on an entirely new meaning in the PC environment we now find ourselves operating in.
I would urge your grandson to, by all means, if he can gain entrance to the USAF (or any service academy, for that matter), to do so. He will receive a fine education and gain valuable real world experience in his subsequent service that will serve him well in any post academy career.
Just tell him to observe my first paragraph admonition when it comes to dealing with his female peers.
I am not a "Ring Knoocker," but I did serve 28 1/2 years in the US Navy and Naval Reserve as a Naval Officer and Naval Aviator, and most of my peers who were Naval Academy graduates were first class people and first rate officers.
FYI, I did encounter, FRom time to time, a self-aggrandizing a$$hole who was mistakenly commissioned as a Naval Officer; but more of them were non-Academy than Academy. But they were, mostly, easily avoided.
That was in the 30s when there were no females around.
Standards for entrance were tough, tougher for staying. During those days the military could pick and choose, and the culture was totally different. There is a friend here on FR whose son was appointed to AF academy and had scholarship elsewhere. They asked my advice and he took the scholarship elsewhere.
Cannot imagine what it must be like to be the commandant. Talk about job insecurity.
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