[marygonzo]

Is this a joke?

[45semi]

My neice is over there, doing that, right now...

I am not too thrilled about it.
She is however, the first female in our family to join & serve.
She has joined the ranks of almost every male in our family, in serving...

Dunno if she is gonna get her wings though....
Small female, and 5 guys are gonna 'blood' her wings?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_wings

[Jack Hammer]

One cannot help suspecting that “winning hearts and minds” is working about as well in Afghanistan as it did in Vietnam.

Soldiers are meant to kill people and break things, and not to engage in public relations.

At some point, perhaps, the government and its personnel will come to realize that not everyone wants to “become American.”

At the very least, that will release an enormous amount of money and great numbers of troops for combat.

[Secret Agent Man]

No offense, but wtf is the army doing with “cultural support teams”?!?!

Jesus, help us. We are so effed up down here.

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

Women under Islam:

While I admire her effort, all this "Hearts and Minds" crap is a complete exercise in futility. We ain't ever going to influence those poor, illiterate, people who are steeped in that 7th C. cult which dictates their everyday life and as long as they cling to their "Religion of Pieces" they (and almost every other Islamic Republic in the World) will not be forthcoming in joining the civilized, 21st Century, World.

It's something like this: