[ILS21R]

What would have happened if there were women at D-Day? or at The Bulge? What would the SS have done with woman POWs? I guess we will just have to learn this lesson the hard way.

You're living the past.

[Mr Rogers]

When I was an Lt in F-4s, I had a talk with my Sq CC about the difference between combat and peacetime. We were barely passing an ORE, and I commented on what would happen to us if we had to go to combat.

He laughed. Said that as an Lt, his unit failed an ORI just before deploying to Vietnam, where they flew all their sorties non-stop. To understand the difference, he said, look at those guys loading AIM-9s. See the evaluators watching them, and grading their skills with a loader? In combat, he said, the biggest guys carried the AIM-9s over and held them up for attachment.

Completely illegal peacetime, and you would flunk an ORI that way - but that was why they flew their COMBAT sorties. Because the big guys just carried the AIM-9s (weight a bit under 200 lbs, IIRC)...

[Travis McGee]

"What would have happened if there were women at D-Day? or at The Bulge? What would the SS have done with woman POWs? I guess we will just have to learn this lesson the hard way."

You're living the past.

You think we will always get to choose our battlefields? If so, you are living in Lalaland.

[little jeremiah]

You're living the past.

Could you explain, please? "Past" as in "we're in a forward march towards the always better future, better just because it's in the future" kind of thing?

[Candor7]

Hey, I have no problem with feminist women gaining the distinct privilege of dying for their country. The same with the queers who serve.

It improves the gene pool.