I want to interject some background info here... the statement earlier this week was about maternity flight suits.
When I was in, I had friends on flight status- Army and AF, that were female. You were removed from flight status if you were pregnant, period. You weren't flying, nevermind deploying. One of my friends (Blackhawk pilot) was crushed when she found out she was preggo, dropped off flight status and pulled off of a deployment with her husband.
In that situation, pilots, crew chiefs, even ground crew authorized to wear the flight suit, had to return to wearing the standard services' maternity uniform. This was a gripe of theirs- somehow, in their mind, wearing a flight suit made them 'special', and evidence they had a higher status than the average grunt, cook, or cannon cocker.
I guarantee this whole row is over females feeling 'disrespected' by being forced to wear the same fucking uniform everyone else does, and the new wokeness in leadership positions wants to appease a bunch of commissioned crybabies. I'm also betting the company that makes flight suits for the services has a lobbying arm that put a bug in someone's ear... it's been a while since flight suits got redesigned, there's big money in that contract change order.
100% agreement here. It's a return to the Barry Soetoro days where the military is being divided with social justice issues. The flight suit story is exhibit #1, in that some have taken it out of context (thinking it means we're deploying pregnant women) and those who defend it as a SJW womens' issue (like that Chief Master Sgt).
For us on the outside, I see it as eroding our confidence in the military, while attracting the weak-minded and those who would use military service as a dodge. I think this is part of a bigger plan to turn the military into a conscripted force willing to follow orders for a paycheck, after weeding out the hard men who would defend the constitution.
I want to interject some background info here... the statement earlier this week was about maternity flight suits.
When I was in, I had friends on flight status- Army and AF, that were female. You were removed from flight status if you were pregnant, period. You weren't flying, nevermind deploying. One of my friends (Blackhawk pilot) was crushed when she found out she was preggo, dropped off flight status and pulled off of a deployment with her husband.
In that situation, pilots, crew chiefs, even ground crew authorized to wear the flight suit, had to return to wearing the standard services' maternity uniform. This was a gripe of theirs- somehow, in their mind, wearing a flight suit made them 'special', and evidence they had a higher status than the average grunt, cook, or cannon cocker.
I guarantee this whole row is over females feeling 'disrespected' by being forced to wear the same fucking uniform everyone else does, and the new wokeness in leadership positions wants to appease a bunch of commissioned crybabies. I'm also betting the company that makes flight suits for the services has a lobbying arm that put a bug in someone's ear... it's been a while since flight suits got redesigned, there's big money in that contract change order.
But that’s not what was being criticized. The overall issue was the military prioritizing issues politically. All the while our enemies watch.
100% agreement here. It's a return to the Barry Soetoro days where the military is being divided with social justice issues. The flight suit story is exhibit #1, in that some have taken it out of context (thinking it means we're deploying pregnant women) and those who defend it as a SJW womens' issue (like that Chief Master Sgt).
For us on the outside, I see it as eroding our confidence in the military, while attracting the weak-minded and those who would use military service as a dodge. I think this is part of a bigger plan to turn the military into a conscripted force willing to follow orders for a paycheck, after weeding out the hard men who would defend the constitution.