Within the veteran community, there are over 1.8 million women.
Posted on 08/14/2015 6:49:44 PM PDT by null and void
Within the veteran community, there are over 1.8 million women.
Some of those women are part of a pro-military organization called Pin Ups For Vets:
Veterans
Pin Ups For Vets is a non-profit that produces WWII-style pinup calendars every year. Proceeds from the calendar help to support our hospitalized veterans and deployed troops.
The women who are part of Pin Ups For Vets even go to the VA hospitals to hand deliver them.
Image Credit: Pin Ups For Vets
This year, their calendar features 12 female veterans.
Pin Up For Vets founder Gina Elise shared some of the images for the new calendar with IJReview.
U.S. Army veteran Cici:
Image Credit: Pin Ups For Vets
U.S. Marine veteran Donna:
Image Credit: Pin Ups For Vets
U.S. Marine veteran Chloe:
Image Credit: Pin Ups For Vets
U.S. Marine veteran Jennifer:
Image Credit: Pin Ups For Vets
We wanted to know what compels these women to trade in their camouflage and rifle for 1940s Americana and high heels. U.S. Marine veteran Jovane Marie told us:
“Not only does it serve as a fundraising tool to ensure that we can complete our mission, and bring joy to our troops, veterans and supporters worldwide – it also shows the diversity of the veteran community and proves that women veterans can be both beautiful AND tough. We can go to war AND pose as pinups. We don’t have to choose – we can be both! And I think that is a very important message.”She then shared a personal detail about how the organization has helped save her life:
“My own life has been touched in such a personal way through my involvement. As I said, we are a family. What you don’t see are the heartfelt conversations we have amongst each other about our joys and our struggles, and how fiercely protective of each other we are. I was recently diagnosed with PTS (post-traumatic stress), and went through a period of depression.According to the founder, Pin Ups For Vets has individually visited over 7,000 ill and injured veterans at their bedside in 54 VA Hospitals, military hospitals & state veterans’ homes in 29 states.My fellow ambassadors rallied around me, sharing their own personal experiences and how they managed to overcome, and Gina called or texted me almost everyday to check on me, even when I wouldn’t pick up the phone for days at a time. I do not exaggerate when I say that the love and support of these women saved my life. I am so grateful to be a part of an organization where not only am I helping to improve others’ lives, but my own is enhanced as well.”
Talk about an innovative and heartfelt way to make a meaningful impact in the world.
Thanks for the ping. It’s a very kind thing for them to do - as well as being fun for them.
Dang! I KNEW I shoulda scrolled down more!
Ahemm...”incredibly moving”
Those are forbidden calendars in the modern US Army because they are “sexist” and anti-female. I’m not joking
They are all beautiful women. Inside and outside.
As well as nose art...
I’m PROBABLY too late but:
“In Before the Freepers Who Don’t Want Women in the Military” posts show up!
I’m going to send these gals a case of, ‘Cherries in the Snow’ Revlon Lipstick!
God Bless Them! :)
They are absent from this thread.
Self-preservation I guess...
And they do it with a touch of class.
What a wonderful thing for these ladies to do, thanks for the ping.
Dear Albion Wilde, thank you for pinging me to this. I needed some good cheer today and this was good medicine.
I am lurking around FR still, sometimes more, sometimes less.
Wishing you well ...
Same good wishes to you, lj. I miss seeing you here!!!
beautiful women actually looking like women and classy. Not the awful , disgusting, young women we see today full of tattoos , piercings, and dressed like men
women looking like women, how novel, sarc
I hear you. My generation thinks dressing in PJ’s, baggy t shirts, and looking like crap is alright.
Preach it!
I do to my daughter LOL.
Excellent, manc!
Noel Neill was a tiny woman, pretty as can be, but tiny. I met here about 10 years ago and she was wearing hers Superwoman outfit at a memorabilia show.
Just for reminiscing purposes, at the show was Hank Garrett (Car 54 and Day of the Condor), Lana Wood (James Bond’s “Casino” girl and sister of Natalie Wood, and my favorite, Paul LeMat (American Graffiti), along with Plan 9 From Outer Space’s Conrad Brooks.
Got great photos and autographs that day including one of me, LeMat and Brooks with our arms around each other’s shoulders.
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