Through The Looking Glass

 

1. We have women fighter pilots? Ok ... fine. Do they get to fight or are they limited to ferry duties? Are they all blondes too? (dreaming of aerial maneuvers)

   Posted by Drew458       08/11/2006  at  08:19 PM  



2. I helped analyse how the Marines train Harrier (AV-8b) pilots. Most of the students were men, but there was one woman, a major. She was quite a tough cookie (said with all respect), and she was NOT learning to ferry those bad boys.

   Posted by Rickvid       08/12/2006  at  10:51 AM  



3. One of them was a POW during Operation Desert Storm. >One of the women, Maj. Rhonda Cornum, later told a presidential commission on women in the military that she was sexually abused. Cornum, a flight surgeon, was captured when her Army helicopter crashed. She suffered two broken arms and was shot in the right shoulder.< While I admit that this particular article is negatively slanted against women in the military, I am still out on the decision as to women in the military - but a lot can do the jobs asked of them, like my daughter. If you’ve got the brains, the physical ability and the desire - who gives a hoot what sex you are? Oh yeah, the muslims, the christian fundamentalists, the mormans, the neo nazis and so on and so on and so on. . .

   Posted by wardmama4       08/12/2006  at  12:50 PM  



4. Capt Weeks is joining the Thunderbirds next year, BTW: 

   http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123021288

   Posted by Grumpy Old Ham       08/13/2006  at  08:18 PM  



5. Oh my !, I am smitten by the looks of Capt “Sam”
   What poetic justice if these ladies could drop some ordnance (sp?)on some stone age Islamofascists !

   Posted by memoryleak       08/17/2006  at  04:19 AM  

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