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"Jim Baker" wrote:
[snip] This is a silly sub-thread. What you're saying is women are choosing to only be pilots and not combat arms soldiers. Nothing could be further from the truth since they aren't allowed to apply to certain combat specialties by law. Your insistence that they're having it both ways by their own choosing just doesn't make sense because it's incorrect on the face of it. You're putting words in my mouth as I didn't say that they want it both ways "by their own choosing." Those are YOUR words, not mine. I'm simply saying that if women are permitted to engage in aerial combat then women should also be permitted to engage in ground combat. -Mike Marron |
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(ArtKramr) wrote:
[snippity snip] And there is no flying weather like English flying weather Aaaaargh! As if. As if YOU would know! -Mike (British Isles don't have a stranglehold on crummy Wx) Marron |
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In message , Mike Marron
writes "M. J. Powell" wrote: ArtKramr writes Mike Marron OSPAM wrote: No, what's nonsensical/illogical is the notion that women should have it both ways. If a tiny nation such as Israel which is constantly fighting to protect itself, doesn't use women in combat, the only reason the U.S. has women filling combat positions in airplanes is to fulfill equal opportunity mandates as prescribed by politicians. Then there was that memorable morning at Stansted. We were socked in. Mission cancelled. Ceiling not zero, but damned near zero. Suddenly we heard the unmistakeable sound of twin R-2800's overhead, Men rushed out to light the firepots to burn off some of the fog. Then we saw it, A B-26 on final coming in down and dirty, smooth as glass. It kissed the runway with hardly a squeal and braked to a stop. Out climbed a slip of a girl, a WAAF ferry pilot delivering a replacement B-26 to us. She had more hours than most of our pilots. And she was amazing. Don't ever tell me women can't fly or give me that "political" crap. The question now is will you ever be half the pilot she was?. They (the ATA - Air Transport Auxillaries) also delivered Lancasters, flying solo and without radios. Which, like Kramer's non-seqituer, has no relevance whatsoever to what I wrote. Thread-shift? Mike -- M.J.Powell |
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"Jim Baker" writes:
I would also disagree that the service academies are run like a "typical" public university. They seem to have some of the same "Declared major: Football" type issues we see at big name schools.... -- A host is a host from coast to & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433 |
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