Posted on 10/22/2023 4:15:51 PM PDT by Vendome
This whole thing looks ludicrous — just like those stupid COVID nurse videos. Like maybe let’s have airline pilots dancing like morons after 9/11.
“Unfortunately, we have a lot of old inflexible fogies here who resent that things aren’t like they were in 1969 any more and who don’t even try to understand the modern expressions of things they themselves felt in similar circumstances.”
Well, I’m in my 70s, and I served 1970-1974. We blew off steam or nervousness in myriad ways. And I have no problem with younger generations doing so in their own way. Those two young women are doing what their generation does, and are harming no one. More power to them.
I recorded a VHS tape when we were prepping for “Operation Desert Storm”... Was originally supposed to be a deployment of our MALS to Puerto Rico for war games.
It was all BS... They had us prepping to keep the real goals obfuscated. I get it... the Air Force originally wanted me for my ASVAB scores for “game and theory”...
Ended up in Japan instead... but the orders were cut and changed 3 times in 2 days...
That “air hostess” is stunningly beautiful. May God protect them all from the evil savages they may have to face.
Uncouth American boors, though! They don't know where the pinky goes when sipping tea.
Royal Dragoon Guards version of ...
Actually they look pretty hot, they’re probably scared shitless but they’ll fight willingly for their country and they’re blowing off steam...
Take a chill pill.
Did they learn from the Yom Kippur War? There’s no holidays for you while you’re in the IDF.
That said, anything that increases morale can be helpful and should be considered, and I can't see how some attractive women dancing around is all that harmful.
This was a picture of a Vietnam Era Marine dancing with, er...someone. He looked like he was having a pretty good time...:) 
In the TikTok videos, the girls are attractive, but they are not combat troops. I take issue with the verbiage of the article, which writes it so that people would assume and accept that they are combat troops, but they aren't.
It doesn't mean Israeli women won't have to fight in combat if it comes, it is war, they are a small country, and are surrounded on all sides by enemies, so if it came to that out of desperation, they would have their females fight in combat as any rational country fighting for its survival would.
No doubt there are many people who will come out of the woodwork to talk about how Israeli women serve in the IDF in combat roles and that should be the model for us. But it isn't true, though you hear it repeatedly. Women are not allowed in ground combat roles in the IDF. It is true that they are serving as pilots, and various ground base roles that I presume might get them closer to the front, but not in combat.
As for this...I know if is only two weeks out from a terrible attack that per national capital basis was more than ten times what we experienced on 9/11, but I would keep in mind these people have been living with dire threats on their soil for a long time. People gotta live somehow.
I assume they are not on the front lines.
Yeah...I think they’re probably in an appropriately concerned state of mind.
Enlistment bonus or enlistment bon3r?
Mozzeltov
And spin my dreidel!
Hoo hah!!
I know how you feel....
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With your hands and fingers...
No… they were worn out, having a beer. And they weren’t doing it after 45,000 Americans were killed in a day and 3000 carried away to captivity and rape. Different….
And more power to you for realizing that the cause and the emotions are the same, only the means of expression has changed.
Some of these stick-up-arse types I’ve seen in this thread remind me of Lieutenant Brown in David Drake’s ostensibly fictional short story, The Way We Die. The character of Brown was a stick-up-arse lifer type who insisted on the same kind of ‘no fun that I don’t specifically authorize at the times that I authorize it in the forms that I authorize, you must be serious and on the ball at all times even when resting’ crap that they’re promoting. And, of course, he gets some people killed specifically through that sort of thing after which the protagonist/narrator is distinctly unhappy with him.
“Flip didn’t have a chance, not even time to scream, down in the turret with them shells all around him. I was looking at him right as the mine went off, the joint halfway to his lips and a big easy smile for me.
“When a Sheridan burns there’s nothing you can do but watch. The flames kept roaring out of the hatches for five minutes. The turret settled through the aluminum hull until it rested on the treads.
“There were half a dozen smoke grenades inside my cupola. When they cooked off, puffs of red and yellow and violet smoke burped out of the glare.
“Nothing exploded. We didn’t carry any HE rounds. The dustoff bird had landed before the fire was out. It took off with Chico, he was pretty shook up.
“There wasn’t anything wrong with me. As for Flip, the track’ll cool off in a day or two and we’ll see what’s left then. Flip won’t care.
“I’m driving Six-three now, until we get a replacement Sheridan. Sure, I’ll TC another Sheridan. It don’t mean nothing. You get used to a lot of things after you been in-country a while.
“Lieutenant Brown’s got a Grateful Dead tape on. You can hear it coming out of the hatches of Two-zero. Funny taste for a lifer. The way he’s got the recorder bracketed against the turret, there’s a space about the size of your fist behind it. You know, about the size of a grenade.
“The rain’s stopping. Pretty soon Lieutenant Brown’ll pick up his recorder to head for the command meeting.
“Ever see a Sheridan burn? Keep watching Two-zero.”
I mean, that video is real popular in some parts of California, Canada, the UK and Germany...
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