Amazing news. My unit has it's first female in flight school right now.
The real surprise here is that LTC McSally made quite a stir some years ago fighting against Islamic dress for military women stationed in Saudi Arabia. Guess bygones are bygones.
I thought that name sounded familiar.
Oh I remember that one, all right. The support for her position was universally positive, in spite of the attempt to silence her under pretense of miltary discipline.
To me it was as degrading and humiliating as what the Saudis did to our president in this incident:
It is Thanksgiving 1990. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are spending it in Saudi Arabia, invited by its rulers to protect the country -- not against the infidel, but against a fellow Arab Muslim, Saddam Hussein of Iraq. Having raped Kuwait, Iraqi forces were poised to storm Saudi Arabia, a country unable to defend itself.
U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush arrived to share the Thanksgiving meal with the armed forces whose commander in chief he was. Upon arrival, the Saudi hosts informed him that the sight of a banquet connected in any way, shape or form with Christian traditions, giving thanks to God, was so hateful to Muslims that the president and his lot would have to repair to the high seas, far from the shores that would be soiled, defaced, desecrated by their act and presence.
And should have never, ever, been tolerated under any circumstances. Period.
If there isn't poetic justice. May many jihadis meet their fate under her squadron's guns!