Air Force Academy Removes 'Men' Sign

AP Via Yahoo ^ | March 29, 2003 | Staff

[EveningStar]

AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. - Large letters reading "Bring Me Men" that critics say became a symbol of a male-dominated culture at the Air Force Academy have been removed from a stone arch that incoming cadets march beneath.

The letters were taken down Friday under a directive that emerged from an Air Force investigation of a sexual assault scandal at the academy.

Five leaders at the academy have been reassigned as the Air Force responds to complaints that female cadets' reports of sexual assaults haven't been taken seriously and that some of those who complained were punished. At least 56 female cadets reported being sexually assaulted over the past 10 years.

Since 1964, each incoming class of cadets has marched through the stone portal that bore the slogan "Bring Me Men" in 2-foot-high, brushed aluminum letters.

The phrase comes from an 1894 poem by Sam Walter Foss extolling the expansionist spirit of the country. The first two lines of "The Coming American" read: "Bring me men to match my mountains, Bring me men to match my plains."

Advisers had urged removal of the sign in 1999 but academy officials said then that it would stay because it was part of the academy's history and tradition.

[goldstategop]

P.C reaches Air Force Academy. Film at 11.

[ScholarWarrior]

Sign in front of Clinton's house -- BRING ME GIRLS

[merrin]

"The age if chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded."
--Burke

[DoughtyOne]

Now, if the NOW organization could only get rid of the men...

[annyokie]

[MonroeDNA]

Women don't belong in the armed forces.

Yes, I was in them.

[kylaka]

How did the Clinton crime family miss that one?

[EveningStar]

LOL!

[NMFXSTC]

USAFA has been far too PC for too long...and "tradition"? HA! They change command names, job names, uniforms, etc. every other year. Sad friggin' times (and I did 27 years...the knee jerk over-reaction, PC, CYA crap SUCKS!)

[muawiyah]

A question for the complainants: Would any one of you volunteer to replace the lady supply clerk now held as a POW by the Iraq Army?

If not, shut up and get outta' here.

[EveningStar]

Don't be ridiculous. This has nothing to do with disrespect of women.

[ScholarWarrior]

Thank you. I like that one.

[holyscroller]

I was in the Air Force too, back when women supported the men, not tried to replace them. If they want equality that bad, maybe we should have a men's Air Force and a women's Air Force. Then the lady Amazons can prove their equality.

[goodnesswins]

Soooo...what's it gonna say now....."Bring Me Wusses?"

[annyokie]

You're welcome. It is the obligatory pic of Beelzebubba.

[cherry]

"The age if chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded." --Burke"

very true, but seems that there was no "chivalry" at the AF Academy....

anyone forget that it was the female cadet who was reprimanded for "fraternization" after she complained of sexual assault from an upper classmen?

being "PC" and being a gentleman are two differant things.....

[Lancey Howard]

Advisers had urged removal of the sign in 1999 but academy officials said then that it would stay because it was part of the academy's history and tradition.

"History and tradition" are the prime targets in the culture war. The Democrats and the scumbag liberal PC crowd, whose very goal is the destruction of traditional America and its families, have won another battle.

Congratulations on your surrender, Air Force - - even the French must be laughing.

[gcruse]

My brother-in-law graduated the Academy in the mid-seventies. They were the last class that had no women in it. Their rings were supposed to have LCWB engraved on them, but the Air Force nixed that. If you can't figure what LCWB means, freepmail me.