I legitimately obtained an appointment and graduated from a service academy over 25 years ago. Most of my female classmates couldn't say the same- that's why most didn't graduate and of those that did most weren't willing to make the personal sacrifices necessary to making it past O-3 and didn't last long thereafter.
BTW, if you were an expendable white male (they made even bigger accommodations to retain blacks and hispanics) who pointed out any of these truisms, your military career pretty much ended in your next FITREP- forget the next promotion board.
The military is now run by politicians hiding behind General and Flag Officer insignia"
You vill prove your loyalty to ze rezime and ze grouptink! Or else notink is going to go right for you!
One would think having a female secretary of the AF would demonstrate a high degree of diversity; right out of the gate no glass ceiling.
Let’s ALL scream
Cultural Marxism. Will unit commissars be next, or has that already happened?
Hey Deborah ...I GOT YER DIVERSITY RIGHT HERE!
Oh Lord God we are in the hands of degenerates and crazies. I think God has abandoned America.
I used to be able to recommend a military career, but ever since political correctness and obama entered the equation, never would I make that recommendation again.
BTW, IIRC, the Air Force already has the slowest promotions. I made E-6 in a little less than 4 years. As I understand it, that’s unheard of in the Air Force. Plus, they have no warrant officers.
The next President is going to have a really hard time cleaning all of this PC BS up (Should we actually win in 2016)...
I see she put on a pink uniform to make the announcement.
Never mind if you can fly. You aren’t going anywhere in today’s Air Force unless you’re gay! Do you hear me?
Your post about sums it up, though things are much worse today. The diversity and safety nonsense was intolerable by the time I left. I’d say 80% of the flag officers were pure politicians, and cared about nothing but their next rank.
Pure unadulterated bullshiite.
Diversity or mongrelization and sexual perversion?
Call me a curmudgeon, but that might just be part of the problem right there . . .
The most successful social engineering has been Truman’s integration of the military. That was clearly done with the intent to make the military a more effective fighting machine.
But this social engineering seems to totally change the mission of the military.
Feelings, whoah, whoah, whoah feelings.
Ok
Of the many AF pilots I know, by marriage and otherwise, and the one I’m married to is known as the former president of the He Man Woman Haters Club - have the voice messages to prove it- not one has ever complained about flying with women
A person can either fly and keep up or NOT.
Short guys cannot fly certain planes.
Nor can tall ones. Ask Mikey Kay.
I can’t reach the top shelf at Whole Foods. I have to depend on the kindness of strangers when I want that box of raisin bran.
But I heard a co worker say, the other day, something about regulations on commerce. I asked him why he thought the governmental restrictors were better at moral decisions than the businessmen and bankers, he was speechless. Answerless
Why is this woman a moral authority? It is stalinesque.
To my extensive knowledge of the Air Force, capable and physically appropriate women have not been kept out of flying, and I have noticed that the fat boy program is much reduced in standards, for women in flying jobs.
So I ask, If a self described, knuckle-dragging Neanderthal of a nail eating yet truly Aryan fighter pilot, who can at the same time be a family man devoted to the community, despite having been repeatedly deployed in battle can figure out for the long haul that being a woman does not prevent someone from being among the best pilots in the world, and consistently, and for decades, treat these women as such, why would he need some arbitrary woman coming along, throwing her rank around to tell him how to treat others?.
What is HER claim to moral superiority?
The government has got it into some people’s heads that somehow they are morally superior, when in fact they are corrupt, anticonstitutional, illogical sniveling bullies with no true regard among their families and communities.
And it will be over at one point for them
It’s a farce.
0bama and his minions are determined to destroy these United States.
It doesn’t matter what kind of leader you are. What matters is how down with the struggle you are.