[bkwells]

'Bout Time! Get the peppermint-patty type's out of there.

[demlosers]

He [Rumsfield] in effect fired the 22 current Clinton-appointed panelists and ordered his Pentagon E-Ring adjutants to rewrite the advisory group's charter.

They're still to many Clintonistas in government.

[flicker]

Watched JAG this week and the story line wandered around a female Navy pilot who had lost and engine. She was able to hold the fighter upright long enough for her backseater to eject. Once he was safely out, the plane inverted and she went in with it, losing her life.

The only lost Navy female pilot I remember, was 3-4 years ago. The investigation showed that she had been pushed well beyond her capacity, just to keep a "trophy female" in a pilot's seat. As the evidence started to develop, the whole issue dissapeared.

Has there been any other Navy Female Pilots lost at sea or what's going on here.

Anybody remember the earlier accident??

[91B]

All this is to the good, but I am still waiting for the idiotic policy of mixed gender boot camp to be reversed in the Army and Navy (the Air Force is beyond redemption).

[PoisedWoman]

the panel aggressively has urged the Navy to assign women to the submarine service and, indeed, design the new Virginia-class boats to accommodate females. The Navy, so far, has resisted.

I can't even imagine any woman wanting to serve on a submarine packed in with a bunch of sweaty guys. The Navy should keep resisting.

I do know a couple of young women in the armed forces. One, the daughter of a female Palestinian immigrant and an American father, is serving on a ship in the Persian Gulf now. She's a smart girl and does a good job -- NOT on the front lines. But she complains of harrassment by male sailors -- she's very good looking so that may contribute to her problems. She's going to reinlist nevertheless. There are plenty of jobs in the service that can easily be done by women without lowering the standards. But NOW is crazy to push for women to be allowed the same status as men doing actual fighting. If certain jobs were designated as women's jobs, I would not mind having women serve their country.

[Harrison Bergeron]

"...the congressional women's chorus and their gelded male colleagues."

There's your problem. Until some kind of sea change remedies that, the next dem administration will "undo" Rummy's fixes - and then some - in the first week of office.

[DeathTaxesNoles]

I am a 21 male year-old college student in ROTC and went to AF Basic Training two summers ago. And I will admit that the 4 girls in our flight were treated with much greater ease and sympathy than the 20 guys. Nobody said anything aloud but behind closed doors we all noticed the difference.