tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16538843.post7383840017456653011..comments2024-01-02T09:18:23.893-05:00Comments on Written World: This pisses me off like you wouldn't believe.Ragnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00373059673228550524noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16538843.post-69698131466303400492009-01-17T07:47:00.000-05:002009-01-17T07:47:00.000-05:00My reaction to this guy's post was "only just work...My reaction to this guy's post was "only just worked that out, geniuses?". No, I don't find it surprising that people on combat assignments would engage in spontaneous, even unprotected sex either. <BR/><BR/>I'm also well aware that this is hardly a new phenomenon. My grandmother, who was a nurse on RAF bases from 1940-1946, could tell this man stories that would curl his hair. <BR/><BR/>It doesn't matter what war, what recruits, what training, this is what happens when you put people in a situation where death is a very real and constant possibility. <BR/><BR/>I don't need a study to tell me that or to tell me the consequences of it. The forces didn't need it either except, as you point out, to target their pharmacy order and distribution more effectively. <BR/><BR/>And people of either gender who risk their lives in the forces, no matter what you think of the wars they fight because that isn't a serving soldier's choice, deserve better than to be lambasted by this ignorant tick. I'm not about to judge someone's morals when they could end up explosively dead any minute. Leave it to them to regret their actions after their demob and just hope they survive to have regrets.James Ashelfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06921809149099140714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16538843.post-77548694496708604752009-01-08T09:26:00.000-05:002009-01-08T09:26:00.000-05:00What a charming article. He manages to disrespect...What a charming article. He manages to disrespect botht the women and the men.SallyPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05592635194271250605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16538843.post-18076506987884640472009-01-07T14:09:00.000-05:002009-01-07T14:09:00.000-05:00That pisses me off too, and as an evil warmongerin...That pisses me off too, and as an evil warmongering Republican male, I'm probably coming from the "opposite" side on most of those. (To put it simply, I want the United States military to be as powerful and effective as possible, which means I want our very best people there. Excluding some of them solely on the basis of a physical difference that's irrelevant in the vast majority of 21st century military operations is just plain stupid.)<BR/><BR/>Of course, there *are* a lot of military veterans who say women in combat would be a disaster. And they said the same things about WACs and WAVEs, or women officers, or women at West Point/Annapolis, or women combat aviators, or....<BR/><BR/>I once heard General Tommy Franks say something apropos when asked, after he was out of the Army, a question about how the Iraq war was going.<BR/><BR/>He said something like "Every soldier is an absolute expert on how the Army really works... or how it worked on the day of their retirement." On anything developing after that, they're likely about as clueless as the rest of us.David Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16985574193396205518noreply@blogger.com