Posted on 01/24/2013 9:41:00 PM PST by Red Steel
Where was I? Staying warm!
I was in a heated shop. But that isn’t really my point.
You were where you needed to be.
For that, you deserve The Medal of HONOR.
The support brigade stationed the same place I was in Iraq was sending home and average of seven per month pregnant. That won’t happen in combat arms though.
We’ll place males and females, at the peak of their biological drive years, in close proximity under stress, but nothing will happen because we will tell them not to.
I’ve spent 26 years in combat arms, but no one’s interested in experience or logic today.
I couldn’t imagine the military even considering accommodating those conditions, but don’t worry: This country will never have a draft again. Nobody would show up.
Think of the motivational speech an enemy commander can give his troops knowing we fights with women soldiers. Not to mention the extra benefits the enemy gets by winning a battle. To the victory goes the spoils.
No, not in this wicked generation.
But that is precisely the point to which we as a Christian missionary family are determined to testify.
All of those points are very important to the practice our Biblicist Christian faith. They are sincere, and can be seen in our family life for the past 37 years my wife and I have been married. We did not "create" religious practice to avoid anything.
When I was in the Air Force, I had to attend an NCO Leadership School. The school commandant arranged for the graduation ceremony to be in a setting where alcohol was being consumed even as the ceremony took place.
I told the commandant that I do not attend any function where people are consuming alcohol. He threatened not to graduate me. I told him, "That will be fine, Sir." I did not attend.
My squadron commander, however, went to the base commander, and I was awarded my diploma anyway. My CO handed it to me in his office, and told me that the base commander had been very concerned about the level of alcohol consumption on the base, and asked my CO to thank me for taking the stand I took.
It is called "diversity matrix" in the Pentagon ; that is actually the expression used by military commanders today to bring sodomites and females to the maximum numbers possible in direct ground combat units---bringing their numbers to "critical mass" in those units.
"Diversity matrix" now trumps history, logic, and veteran combat experience in the U.S. Armed Forces.
“Diversity Matrix”. Yes, I can see the commander’s briefing chart now...and integrated into the monthly Unit Status Report as a measure of readiness. Another social engineering block to check on the NCOER/OER.
It sounds as though you were in the AF during the time of the draft; as such I see your point about the alcohol. Nowadays with a volunteer military I’d imagine they have policies for it where one can choose not to join if those policies are an issue.
I’ve personally never understood the “dry” position taken by some Christians; Jesus worked his first miracle in public changing water to wine so people could whoop it up at a wedding. Some Christians have told me that was grape juice, but I dismiss that as absurd. There are many reasons to oppose alcohol consumption privately and publicly, but in Christianity there is no theological basis for prohibition/abstinence. In excess there is (damaging the temple of the Holy Spirit), but otherwise I just don’t see it.
“Well, I guess there IS an upside to this, eh?”
Absolutely!!!
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