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The US Air Force is removing height restrictions for pilots, which will allow more women to serve
CNN ^ | May 25, 2020 | Harmeet Kaur

Posted on 05/25/2020 10:56:38 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

I always say that our potential enemies have sensitivity training but it it’s only one sentence long. It consists of “try not to step on our wounded if you can avoid it.”


61 posted on 05/25/2020 1:26:21 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: ConservativeStatement

The ONLY reason a change in policy or procedures should EVER be made is to increase combat effectiveness!

Any and all other reasons should NEVER be entertained or implemented!


62 posted on 05/25/2020 1:36:52 PM PDT by Taxman (MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AGAIN!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

New Show on TLC, Little People, Big Airplane.

Pilot Roloff, where the heck did I put those Rudder Pedal Extensions?


63 posted on 05/25/2020 1:39:42 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Does this mean the USAF has old phone books stockpiled someplace?


64 posted on 05/25/2020 1:43:40 PM PDT by G Larry (The People must shutdown the tyrants.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Air Force Major Kim Campbell flew safely back to base in a shrapnel-riddled A-10
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33253/battle-damaged-a-10-warthog-gets-back-in-the-fight-with-help-from-a-little-telemedicine

https://www.military.com/air-force/air-force-pilot-landed-damaged-10-warthog-using-only-cranks-and-cables.html

Here are images of A10 with battle damage
https://tinyurl.com/ycphcfkr

Neat images of ships.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/273030796134444784/?d=t&mt=login


65 posted on 05/25/2020 1:51:03 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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To: ConservativeStatement

There are long standing reasons for physical height and weight restrictions many of them having to do with aircraft design and emergency situations. But I’m sure today’s modern Air Force can find plenty of “good” reasons to ignore them.


66 posted on 05/25/2020 1:51:11 PM PDT by Gritty (The Left has nothing to offer anyone that must not first be taken from someone else. - F. Porretto)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Perfect. You can sleep well tonight your air farce is woke.

Why did they have the rule in the first place? Oh Yeah, so they can see over the instruments and reach the rudder pedals.

The air farce effectively has ZERO percent washout rate in pilot training.

Just keep giving students remedial training and one-more-chance.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/05/04/pilot-error-instructor-delay-caused-deadly-t-38-crash-vance-report-finds.html


67 posted on 05/25/2020 2:03:43 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Wonder if I could use this as a basis for a suit against Disney for telling me I was too short to ride Space Mountain when I was 10?


68 posted on 05/25/2020 2:14:17 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: Pearls Before Swine

“ Pull start a jet, LOL. “

or just push it a couple hundred MPH and engage the transmission


69 posted on 05/25/2020 2:21:25 PM PDT by Reynoldo
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To: ConservativeStatement

Do they have fighter pilot chairs that are a Size 12 Dwarf? (old reference)


70 posted on 05/25/2020 2:24:33 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Wu Flu! (when I feel heavy metal) Wu Flu! (when I'm pins and I'm needles) Wu Flu!)
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To: Leaning Right

Toonces can fly anything!


71 posted on 05/25/2020 2:25:13 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Wu Flu! (when I feel heavy metal) Wu Flu! (when I'm pins and I'm needles) Wu Flu!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Giant mistake. Only women can birth children. Our civilization should not put them in combat.


72 posted on 05/25/2020 2:31:32 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Gonna have to introduce navigation by stopping and asking directions, now.


73 posted on 05/25/2020 2:35:06 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Good! No civilization where the women who allowed their women to protect the men has survived.
74 posted on 05/25/2020 2:38:10 PM PDT by sport
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To: ConservativeStatement
Good! No civilization where the women who allowed their women to protect the men has survived.
75 posted on 05/25/2020 2:38:14 PM PDT by sport
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To: ConservativeStatement


"De plane, boss, de plane!"

76 posted on 05/25/2020 2:42:24 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: ConservativeStatement

If you can reach the controls, I guess. You can’t start customizing every aircraft.


77 posted on 05/25/2020 10:50:12 PM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: stanne

Women have been flying since WWII. Remember the WASPS. The ladies who ferried fights and bombers all over the world.


78 posted on 05/26/2020 2:01:06 AM PDT by Pocketdoor
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To: Pocketdoor

Exactly. That is why I said within the Air Force.


79 posted on 05/26/2020 2:17:39 AM PDT by stanne
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