This is to just about everyone who posted on this thread -
I am really quite disgusted. I have no problem with some good-natured ribbing, but this thread is nothing but complete misogyny.
Some here might remember that back during the start of the gulf wars a freeper named Minor49er who posted a “joke of the day” on the Freeper Canteen. Nearly every day for a couple of years. This was done in an attempt to make our deployed troops lives a little easier. It was admittedly not much, but just how much was a high school student going to be able to do? It was also something that she came up with all on her own. Her parents didn’t come up with the idea (I know), she just looked around and assessed what she could do with the resources she had available and came up with a solution. She kept it up till she left for college.
Some of you are either current or former submariners and therefore might be marginally qualified to hold an opinion, but most of you haven’t got the slightest damn idea of what it means to serve, let alone to serve on submarines.
Minor49er is currently a junior officer in the submarine force. She has, since she was a kid, sought to serve her country and to do what she could for those who served before her. She has served here on FreeRepublic, in the Sea Cadets, in the Corps of Cadets at Virginia Tech, and in the US Navy.
I for one am extremely proud of her and her service. I think she is being ill-served by Freepers, and those whom she tried to help with a little humor once upon a time.
I’ve known women who were f*ckups in the Navy, and men as well. In my experience, none of them were f*ckups based on their sex, they were just twisted, f*cked-up individuals. Those of you who know what you are talking about and want to constructively engage are welcome to do so, the rest of you can go piss up a rope...
Just my opinion.
And I have nothing but loathing and contempt for a nation that would put its young women in harm's way unnecessarily.
That’s touching. But facts are facts. She would better serve her country by having a family during those precious reproduction years a woman has and by being there for her kids. Performing man roles isn’t good hour her, or us.
All she can do on a warship is hurt the effort. It’s not about her.
That is a great post. Please tell Minor49er that I am grateful for her service.
She sounds like a patriotic, generous American who was certainly raised well. To care about the troops in high school? Awesome.
Kathy, thought you might be interested in this, since you post the canteen thread. :)
Can Minor49er make me a sammich?