[rlmorel]

Ex-Navy here feels the same way.

Few things irritate me as much as seeing women take on the idiotic qualities of men just to show they can be men too.

This from a guy who recognizes there is idiocy involved with our sex (even it it is sometimes fun)

[DJlaysitup]

Ex-Navy here feels the same way. Few things irritate me as much as seeing women take on the idiotic qualities of men just to show they can be men too.

Yeah, while I will admit to a little jealousy at "orders reading" when all us average students were getting sent to Amphibs and FFs and the young ladies were going to staff duty in London or Hawaii or Japan...I'm sure glad I didn't have to deal with women on combatants.

Don't get me wrong...I like women and I'm sure they could do the job just as well as the men...it's just that it was hard enough to manage a department of 40 young men on a six month cruise without having to deal with the "sexual issues".

We used to be on independent steaming anit-sub duty in the Med and would be out of port for a month at a time. There was absolutely no way that a bunch of late teen-early twenties guys and girls would be able to "keep it professional" for that long. I would have gone insane.