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Post by Avenger on Aug 23, 2015 11:15:35 GMT -5
Re: not being able to fight Russia. Remember the "Peace Dividend"? All the money that could now be pi$$ed away on social programs now that the Cold War was over? And here we are today in this peaceful utopia all the liberals said was coming as soon as the US stopped building that huge military that made all the other nations feel so threatened. Yet they still will not see.
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Post by badhattitude on Aug 23, 2015 11:34:29 GMT -5
And the Kenyan in charge is their leader.
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Post by rsmith on Aug 23, 2015 13:28:26 GMT -5
Two women just completed Green Beret training. No special privileges or allowances. Decision is still unmade whether they can actually,serve in combat. I say if they can meet the standards they can serve. As long as they're aware that if they become a POW in a mooslim country they will be "rewarded" with 72 virgins. Unless you count goats, then they will be experienced lovers. Ranger school and my buddy says scuttlebutt is that there was a lot of "looking the other way" pressure came down from the top to prove its all fair. Remember Patsy Shroder leaning on the Navy to push Hultgreen as the first woman combat pilot? She failed check ride after check ride but still they put her in a F14 and killed herself and her RIO in a very basic stall spin turning base to final approach.
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Post by Avenger on Aug 23, 2015 13:32:33 GMT -5
Ranger school. Sorry, I was doing it from memory. I'm sure all of this stuff is washed for political purposes. I wonder if Schroeder would have pushed so hard for it if that was her daughter in the back seat.
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Post by krush on Aug 23, 2015 19:50:17 GMT -5
Remember Patsy Shroder leaning on the Navy to push Hultgreen as the first woman combat pilot? She failed check ride after check ride but still they put her in a F14 and killed herself and her RIO in a very basic stall spin turning base to final approach. She didn't kill her backseater, but she killed herself on final to the carrier when she over yawed and caused the engines to stall or something. The other two women washed out shortly thereafter. But, the one broad goes around now doing speeches claiming she's first f14 woman pilot or some BS. It all came about because of the tailhook BS....men being men for hundreds of years and you want them to change just because a woman shows up? I don't expect to go into an elementary school and make the 95% women cater to me. careylohrenz.com/Disgraced, Failed Female Navy Pilot Pursues Vendetta Against Organization that "Outed" Her Center for Military Readiness ^ | 2/03 | Donnelly Posted on 2/9/2003, 4:49:29 PM by pabianice "...It is regrettable that I had to spend more than $ 500,000 to defend CMR [against] a baseless suit filed by former Navy LT Carey Lohrenz (Lorhenz had been "female quotaed" through Navy flight training and finally relieved of flying duty by her carrier CO after she had so scared the rest of the crew that no one would fly with her. She then sued CMR for releasing the details of her incompetence and grounding for "ruining her career." CMR subsequently successfully defended itself in US District Court). SUMMARY JUDGMENT: CMR WINS DECISIVE VICTORY 8/21/2002 10:44:25 PM U.S. DISTRICT COURT AFFIRMS FIRST AMENDMENT The Center for Military Readiness is celebrating victory in litigation that President Elaine Donnelly described as "harassment by feminist advocates who misused the Court to threaten my rights of free speech. This victory upholds the right of CMR to question official policies that elevate risks, and to advocate high, uncompromised standards in naval aviation training." The lawsuit was filed in April 1996 by former Lt. Carey Dunai Lohrenz, who was one of the first two women trained to fly the F-14 Tomcat. In October 1994 her colleague, Lt. Kara Hultgreen, crashed and died while attempting to land on the carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln. Lohrenz was removed from carrier aviation in May 1995, due to flawed flying techniques that her superiors described as "unsafe, undisciplined, and unpredictable." With the help of attorney Susan Barnes, a feminist activist, Lohrenz blamed Donnelly for causing her to wash out by publishing the 1995 CMR Special Report: Double Standards in Naval Aviation Training. The 20-page report, backed by 104 pages of training records and related documents, exposed a pattern of low scores and major errors in the F-14 training of both women that may have contributed to the tragic death of Kara Hultgreen. On Friday, August 16, U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia GRANTED CMR’s Motion for Summary Judgment, dismissing Lohrenz’s action "with prejudice." www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/839386/posts
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Post by rsmith on Aug 23, 2015 22:52:55 GMT -5
Another is Martha McSally she was 4'11" and didn't meet pilot standards. Threatened and intimidated her way into pilot training and apparently all through her career. Flying mag did a article on her glorifying women in aviation and all the "adversity "she struggled with. A follow up letter to the editor from one one of the people she served with set the record straight how she threatened and intimidated her way into a pilot slot. She was also the IP of the A10 pilot that went haywire down in TX and flew a fully armed plane up into Colorado and planted it into the side of a mountain.
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Post by rsmith on Aug 24, 2015 7:28:27 GMT -5
Costly Affirmative Action Remember Navy Lt. Kara Hultgreen who was killed attempting to land her $38 million F-14A Tomcat fighter on the USS Abraham Lincoln? The Navy's official public report was the crash "was precipitated by a malfunction of the left engine." Questions about pilot error were greeted with charges of sexism. ABC's Peter Jennings said there had been a "vicious campaign against allowing women to serve in combat."
According to John Corry's summary in the American Spectator (June 1995) and a report of the Center for Military Readiness (CMR), the government and media version of Lt. Hultgreen's accident is part of the continuing saga of government deceit and media complicity. But here's what really happened.
On approach to the USS Abraham Lincoln, Lt. Hultgreen made five major errors and ignored repeated wave-off signals by ship's landing officer. One of those errors caused the F-14A's left engine to stall, sending the plane out of control, because Lt. Hultgreen mistakenly jammed on the rudder. In the twenty years of F-14A's service, no pilot had ever stalled an engine this way. In an effort to back up their lie that the crash was due to engine failure, the Navy selected nine male pilots to "fly" through Lt. Hultgreen's pre-crash conditions in a ground simulator.
Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jeremy M. Boorda reported "the situation was re-created in an F-14 flight simulator. Eight of nine pilots in the simulator were unable to fly the plane out of the replicated regime." What Admiral Boorda failed to say was that the male pilots had been ordered not to execute the F-14A manual's so-called Bold Face Instructions, the critical things a pilot must do to fly through an emergency similar to Lt. Hultgreen's.
Documents obtained by Elaine Donnelly, director of CMR, shows that Lt. Hultgreen not only had subpar performance on several phases of her training but had four "downs" (major errors), just one or two of which are sufficient to justify the dismissal of a trainee. The White House and Congress' political pressure to get more women in combat is the direct cause of Lt. Hultgreen's death. But the story doesn't end there. A second female F-14A pilot, identified by Elaine Donnelly only as Pilot B, has been allowed to continue training despite marginal scores and seven "downs", the last of which was not recorded so she could pass the final stages of training.
These double standards are destructive in several important ways. They risk the lives not only of young women like Lt. Hultgreen and Pilot B but the lives of fellow military men and women. They dumb-down aviation standards. After all what do we do when a male F-14A trainee, washed out because he had four "downs" and subpar performance, accuses the Navy of sex discrimination? In the name of sex equality, do we lower standards for males? Finally, special concessions for female pilots undermine military morale and respect.
The Hultgreen incident demands several responses. The first is courts-martial of the Navy officers who deliberately submitted false and misleading reports about the incident. Second, Senators Strom Thurmond, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and Sam Nunn, its ranking member, must call hearings. If the Navy establishes double standards for female aviation trainees, families of those exposed to unnecessary death should be informed and the nation should debate wisdom of the Navy's affirmative action policy. Then there's the pure military mission question: how much military efficiency are we prepared to sacrifice to promote the leftist quota vision?
Walter E. Williams May 24, 1995 Return to Articles page
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Post by rsmith on Aug 24, 2015 7:35:03 GMT -5
These were the letter responses to a pumped up article about McSally.
Lt. Col. Martha McSally
In reference to the article on Lt. Col. Martha McSally (" Pilots," March Pilot), it is always encouraging to see information included about the opportunities available at the Air Force Academy for young men and women.
Lest some be misinformed, the Air Force Academy awards a bachelor's of science degree. There is no graduate or medical school at the academy. About 3 percent of the graduating class has an opportunity to attend a medical school. The Air Force Academy offers 30 undergraduate academic majors, but there is no medical school at the academy.
Lt. Col. Robert P. Milich AOPA 1098294 Admissions Liaison Officer U.S. Air Force Academy Colorado Springs, Colorado
I was appalled to see that AOPA Pilot featured Lt. Col. Martha McSally in the March issue. No one who has served honorably in the fighting forces of the United States should stand by and allow selfish mediocrity to be held up as virtuous. I served with Martha McSally. She is bright, personable, aggressive, driven — desirable traits in a military officer. The problem with Martha and others of her ilk is that for them it's all about them, and in this case her résumé amply proves it.
Why would an aviation magazine lionize anyone with a single operational flying tour who wasted the government's time fighting orders and who pursues promotion-accelerating jobs rather than flying assignments? The real blame for letting her succeed despite questionable judgment and priorities falls squarely on her superiors, who lacked the courage to take her considerable talents and shape her into a more complete officer.
Martha's parents bequeathed her the brainpower to attain academic excellence. They also gave her a body too short to meet Air Force standards for pilot training. Those are the breaks. Many people enter the academies with hopes of flying fighters, but see their dreams evaporate as either their eyes or grades deteriorate. Not many need to be reminded what they owe the country for four years of room, board, tuition, and salary. They cheerfully accept orders as tanker navigators, supply officers, or "some missile silo job" because that is what their service needs them to do.
We should applaud the other 2,500 graduates of our military academies each year who demonstrate their patriotism and gratitude to their country by not contesting their orders and professional fate. We might write an article about the person who didn't get the pilot training slot that was given to Martha by a system that didn't have the courage to enforce its regulations when challenged by an assertive woman.
Martin O'Loughlin AOPA 1382947 South Ogden, Utah
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Post by krush on Nov 6, 2015 8:00:49 GMT -5
Caution, this will make your blood boil. If anybody needed any additional reason to say our US mil is beyond worthless: www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/5/aaron-allmon-case-makes-minot-air-force-base-groun/Aaron Allmon case makes Minot Air Force Base ground zero in military’s new gender wars Combat photographer accused of making passes at women faces harsher punishment than Bergdahl (the deserter) He is an award-winning combat photographer who stands accused of trying to pick up women in the public affairs office at MinotAir Force Base in North Dakota, and for that prosecutors wanted to put him in prison for 130 years. ............................ ........... This is a glimpse into the new U.S. Armed Forces and its gender wars. It is a slice of military life stemming from the Pentagon’s order in 2013 to erase all sexual harassment and, to enforce it, staff the ranks with an advocacy bureaucracy to empower victims and make sure complaints are filed.................. .......................... Sgt. Allmon, who denies wrongdoing, goes on trial Monday. The setting is a general court-martial, the military’s most severe, a felony arena. He is charged with unwanted sexual contact with four women: three Air Force and one civilian. The case does not involve rape or what the public might consider overt sexual assault or what could be defined as fondling. ........................... A Washington Times examination shows that, over a 14-month span, the women’s accusations, in total, amount to three kisses and six touches, plus a series of reported inappropriate comments of a sexual nature. If the married Sgt. Allmon did what the women said, he was tastelessly hitting on them.
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Post by rsmith on Nov 6, 2015 15:01:14 GMT -5
All he needs to do is get a dress and a wig claim he's transgender and it was just female comeradery.
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