It you want to start building your family, you should not be in uniform. There are plenty of private and public sector jobs that will accomodate you. A woman who has a young child must decide whether to neglect her child or her duties if she is actually a soldier, and not a disguised civillian in uniform. I consider this child neglect, if not abuse.

Worry01 on May 31, 2012 at 10:37 am

I would also agree that the first woman could do that in a fetish porn magazine as a teaser shot without looking out of place. She is an exhibitionist.

Worry01 on May 31, 2012 at 10:39 am

These women are as tacky as a community bulletin board and have no business being in the airforce. They should be courtmartialed.

BUT, hyphenated names do not NECESSARILY mean a castrated husband. At one time, particularly in England, a man who married a woman from a socially prominant family would sometimes add her family name to his. Think of Margaret Bourke-White, the photographer, or Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, the actress.

Miranda Rose Smith on May 31, 2012 at 10:42 am

I served ten years in the military and had a child. AFTER I came back from a stint overseas and had to endure humiliation from my male superiors for choosing to breastfeed when in the civilian side women can do it freely. It truly is amazing when I have to read and hear idiotic rhetoric from people like this that women shouldn’t be in the military if they plan on having a family. How is that any different than balancing a private sector job and a family? It says a lot about how backwards this nation is in the first place that we have to have laws to protect a woman’s natural right to breastfeed and then dumb bimbos like you want to take it away further by limiting who serves in the Armed Forces by their parental status alone. Please go exercise some birth control of your own and suck a dick.

gi_janearng on May 31, 2012 at 10:43 am

Being a soldier doesn’t mean that you give up what makes you essentially human, or we would prohibit men and women from having families and raising kids.

Also, calling breastfeeding “slutty” or “exhibitionist” is your bias, and not how most people view the mother/child relationship. I don’t know why you would so strongly denigrate what is a perfectly natural, perfectly healthy, demonstrably beneficial activity. The enemy doesn’t engage in this kind of “idiocy” because the enemy is inhuman and exposes a philosophy that is antithetical to what is good and natural about the family and family relationships.

Fritz on May 31, 2012 at 10:59 am

Oh please, Worry1, spare me with the liberal baiting. I have my DD214 and you can easily file an FOIA request to prove my service and my honorable discharge. You and this twat above are the reasons why women have to be protected under federal and State laws to even breastfeed in public. Only fools who have issues with their own sexual nature can look at woman breastfeeding and be ashamed/embarrassed by it. Society has made a woman an object of sex and you both continue to do women a disservice by thinking we need to limit our options based on a perceived notion that we may become mothers. I read good ol’ Deb’s previous post on Jessica Lynch and her rantings (and yours) only prove you both have no clue about how things are done in the military, the regulations soldiers must go by and even the pressures that being in a combat zone can do to a soldier – MALE and FEMALE or the sacrifice many parents make to make sure their children are able to have a happy life while their parents serve in the military.

gi_janearng on May 31, 2012 at 11:10 am

From the article:
As she writes: ‘There are NO polices or regulations in any of the military branches that either approve OR disapprove of breastfeeding in uniform.

Simple reason for that – woman in combat is something that was approved during the Clinton Administration, and even then, it wasn’t foreseen that this would be a problem. They probably assumed that only single women would want to serve in combat, and are therefore now totally unprepared for this.

I too disdain hyphenated surnames. Either adopt the hubby’s surname, or keep your maiden name.

Infidel on May 31, 2012 at 11:17 am

You’re right about our military becoming less fearsome with the more women we have in it. There should be restrictions on what you can publicly do in uniform too. Seeing this really discourages me.

Ed H on May 31, 2012 at 11:18 am

Infidel, stop believing everything you read and do some research of your own. There are policies in place to make sure women AND MEN aren’t going around willy nilly in combat and getting laid. There are also regulations spelling out that women who are pregnant are not placed in a theatre of combat operations, as they are classified as non-deployable and remain so during their post-partum leave. Ms. Schlussel’s rantings would have you believe that there are women in Iraq breastfeeding. This I can assure you, is not the case.

gi_janearng on May 31, 2012 at 11:24 am

Thank you Debbie. I saw this and thought….OMG! They’re actually surprised at the outrage? Look, the military isn’t like every other workplace. If you choose to defend your country, just understand that you will have to give up some freedoms for the good of the service. The decline of America is also seen in the decline of our armed forces. Guess what ladies? Even if you want to nurse your children, you don’t get to do it anywhere you want, IN UNIFORM. Or you shouldn’t. But I’m sure the AF will find some excuse to say they have a right to nurse their kids wherever and whenever they want.

Sean M on May 31, 2012 at 11:36 am

You hit all the right points Debbie. Thank you for connecting this to our enemies – because with these idiots in the Air Force, we’ll surely lose.

Karl on May 31, 2012 at 11:38 am

Typical USAF…U Suck At Fighting

BilboBaggins on May 31, 2012 at 12:12 pm

I have been breastfeeding my daughter for 8 months and am in the military. I manage to do my job just fine. Until you have done both at the same time, don’t judge me and my fellow service members for doing what is bet for our families. How dare you. It’s people like you that I work for every day so you can run your mouth about something you know nothing about. Your welcome, you ignorant douche nozzle.

Heather on May 31, 2012 at 12:22 pm

A male soldier can be disciplined for far less and some things don’t comport with military service.

A woman can either look after her kids or serve her country. She can’t do both.

We don’t have the guts to prohibit this disgrace in our Armed Forces! And no wonder Al Qaeda and the Islamic World is laughing at us.

They’d never let soldier moms define THEIR warrior ethos! Sad to say, people have a hard time saying “no” to indecent and inappropriate behavior in our nation’s military – when its the women who exhibit it.

Only in America.

NormanF on May 31, 2012 at 12:25 pm

The woman on the right, Luna, is fine. The other one is exhibitionistic and vulgar like the recent TIME cover and is not really about breast feeding. Women who want to serve should be in support positions. There’s nothing demeaning about that. Someone has to do those jobs to support the combat troops. My Ex husband did ROTC during Nam but pulled Adjutant General’s Corp. He kept paperwork and organized parades and ceremonies. At one point he was the base “theater” officer which meant he arranged movies for the troops. How would it be any more menial and degrading for a woman to do these things? We were in Germany, totally safe. He remained in the Reserves for his 30 and took a “demotion” to do so when they decided then didn’t need any more weekend Majors. He worked back up to Sgt. Maj. and transferred over to Finance where, interestingly enough, he saw action in Iraq as paymaster during GW1. So there are jobs that women could do with no more interference with their mothering than any civilian job would entail.

Italkit on May 31, 2012 at 12:38 pm

My son was in the U.S. Navy and was assigned temporarily the duties at a “snack bar” on the base because of his background in working in convenience stores and because all the female sailors who worked there got pregnant once they had received their orders to be transferred to ships. So much for morale, efficiency and cohesion.

Concerned Citizen on May 31, 2012 at 12:53 pm

Females should be segregated from male soldiers (like the old WAVEs and WACs) and they should receive a general discharge the second they become pregnant.

DS_ROCKS! on May 31, 2012 at 1:17 pm

“But they are great for some sicko with a fetish for topless breastfeeding woman to masturbate to”

Really counselor, there’s much better stuff than this on the internet. And now you’re an expert on male masterbation too, eh? LOL!

FrenchKiss on May 31, 2012 at 1:27 pm

@gi_janearng on May 31, 2012 at 10:43 am

Thanks for your service. Um, what was your MOS? Did you ever pick up a weapon and stand post? Ever serve on a frontline? And BTW, the military is not a social engineering laboratory for leftwing nutjobs to experiment with. Homosexuals, women, and cowards need not apply. Defending this nation is serious business and requires strict discipline. You are an example of what’s wrong with the military, its become feminized. And you can’t win wars that way.

FrenchKiss on May 31, 2012 at 1:35 pm

For the few posters that commented here and quasi embarrased themselves (I’m looking at you gi_jearning), first off did any of you few posters read the WHOLE article? Nowhere in this article Debbie stated that women shouldn’t serve in the military, she never said anything like that, for starters, she only said that if you’re pregnant and raising kids, you shouldn’t be serving, that’s a little than saying you shouldn’t serve.

BTW gi_jearning, Ms. Schlussel isn’t ranting, you’re the one who’s doing the damn freaking ranting lady. And I also assume you think that both men and women are equally physically, right? That’s NOT a anti-female misogyny comment from me, that is plain old common sense, and Debbie is using common sense here, you should read her articles more often instead of being defensive and using emotions and feelings, because that’s what I read in you’re comments, feelings and emotions with NO critical thinking skills.

If a female wants to serve in the military, that’s fine with me, they can serve atleast in the Air Force or be contractors, but as fighting in combat, what if a male soldier who weighs over 200 pounds is injured and hurt, I’m sorry but physically the female soldier cannot lift him up, because she doesn’t weigh as much as the male soldier does, that’s common sense what I just used there, it’s NOT ranting, NOT misogyny, and NOT me being a so-called neantherdal, etc.!

“A nation is defined by its borders, language & culture!”

Sean R. on May 31, 2012 at 1:45 pm

There is nothing wrong with breast-feeding in private. Its not too much to expect modest behavior in public.

I’ve seen men peeing on walls in public. Is this the kind of behavior we should celebrate?

No, I’m not advocating we adopt the ways of our barbarian Islamic enemies who do far worse and who are hypocrites on the subject of decent manners.

But we could stand to treat not only our bodies but those in our society around us with appreciation and respect. That’s not too low a bar to meet in America.

NormanF on May 31, 2012 at 1:55 pm

The US military is no place for some soldiers to promote/exhibit social or personal issues while in uniform and serving. I’m sick of liberal progressives trying to shove these nonsenses upon the US military to cater to small percentages of “me-me-me” people and to please liberal progressive fools who never served in military uniform.

Bob on May 31, 2012 at 1:59 pm

“The public affairs department at Fairchild Air Force Base did not respond to messages for comment. ”

I doubt the Air Force will do anything to challenge the priority du jour: Diversity. If a senior officer questions the wisdom of serving while breast-feeding, it could be a career ender. Recall what the General in charge said after the Fort Hood shootings that left 13 soldiers dead and 30 or so wounded. He feared how it would impact the Army’s (wait for it) Diversity. He didn’t want to discourage Muslims serving in the Armed Forces. But is that the mission of said forces?

Or consider, as a parallel example, what’s become of NASA in recent years. No longer are they tasked with advancing technology, exploring the stars, or promoting the US security interests. No, Obama tasked the Administrator with … Muslim outreach – making them proud of their contribution to science, etc. So the Shuttles are now housed in museums, we’re hitching rides to the Space Station with the Russians, thousands of scientists and engineers are now jobless. No one discusses that “outreach” program, but I doubt it’s been shelved.

As to the question of name hyphenation, folks do increasingly silly things to be deemed “progressive”. Some guy named Ruderman married a woman named Wilgoren (related to someone I know) . They now go by the name Rudoren. And *she* is now the New York Times correspondent in Jerusalem.

Raymond in DC on May 31, 2012 at 2:04 pm

If this doesn’t convince God fearing people that the end of the world is nigh, nothing will. May God have mercy on our souls.

Dr Dale on May 31, 2012 at 2:07 pm

Debbie… What took you so long to ban the nasty, perverted, foul-mouthed, “lady?”

This was another great article written by a real lady who refuses to compromise her on ethics, morality, beliefs, and upbringing in any way. That is why you have so many fans. Thanks!

PDMac60 on May 31, 2012 at 2:10 pm

There is a lot of absurd political correctness in our nation’s military.

Do I expect the sexist double standards feminists have imposed on it to be dropped? No – I don’t.

Let’s be honest: this is a co-ed class cum adult romper room, not a military institution. I’ll be surprised we’ll still have any Armed Forces left after the chickification makeover its undergoing is complete.

America, the writing is on the wall.

NormanF on May 31, 2012 at 2:11 pm

This has got to be the worst article I’ve ever read. If the writer has proven she knows not a damn thing about being in the military, this is it. Breastfeeding isn’t a social experiment, folks. We live in America, land of the free. We should be grateful there are women willing to balance a homelife with the rigors of serving in the military. Are there bad apples who use it for their own gain? Yes, I’ve seen it personally, but it is a huge injustice to women everywhere to paint them with the same brush. If the jihadists are laughing at anyone, it’s you folks for even trying to make this petty argument.

;ean on May 31, 2012 at 2:18 pm

Standards are not a petty argument! The military is supposed to be an elite fighting institution. Do those women look like tough soldiers to you?

That’s exactly the point. When we have to accommodate nursing mothers, that means less time for remaining personnel to do their jobs.

We have to decide whether we want a glorified social welfare agency with a uniform or whether we want a military to defend the country.

Trying to have it both ways can’t work in the real world and that is why our enemies are laughing at us!

NormanF on May 31, 2012 at 2:26 pm

Right on DS. If disgusting idiots like the mums above and the rough-trade “GI Jane” can spotlight their lack of class, we can put the spotlight back on where it really ought to be…on a society and culture that has proper pride, character, morals and CLASS and kicks against the classless.

Thank feminism (and PC rot) for all this dysfunction on display. I agree with DS 100% as a FORMER militant feminist. Crap like this and human stains like GI Jane make me KNOW I have found my proper way.

We all know what female breasts are for and BOTH instances are highly private matters that should be done in private. If you can’t deal with it you have big problems and you should be see a medical doctor and a shrink. We also know the male biology is VERY different than female so if you’re a “let it all hang out” kinda skank then you deserve all the looky-loo men staring at you when you breast-feed. Especially if you’re like National Disgrace Number One Terran Echegoyen-McCabe. And they will stare because some men can’t help it and have no class. You get what you deserve and the people in society who do have a sense of decorum look down on you because you’re lesser than and don’t know enough to not act in a debase manner.

Skunky on May 31, 2012 at 2:40 pm

And I apologize for the spelling. It should read “civilians” and “men and women.”

;ean on May 31, 2012 at 2:41 pm

Wrong, wrong, wrong !! The military is a instrument of social change. Forward comrades !!!

templar on May 31, 2012 at 2:46 pm

Yup – right down to becoming Bachazi boys and girls in training!

That’s the exactly the kind of image that doesn’t instil fear and respect in our enemies.

Conduct Unbecoming is too kind a description about what Debbie wrote today!

NormanF on May 31, 2012 at 2:53 pm

Last night while watching my Celtics loose again and while doing my online homework I came across this picture. I thought to myself here we go again. Let me start by saying to the mush headed liberals posting onto this board. This aint about breastfeeding. This is about the continuing feminization of our Armed Forces. Being in the military means you’re under a strict standard and your uniform and appearance must be impeccable at all times. Public displays of affection are forbidden so what makes liberal weenies think that breastfeeding while in uniform is ok. I was in the Navy for 20yrs and have had the honor of serving with some of the best female sailors you could meet. They knew what was expected of them. Then you had those like the two in the photo. The look at me attitude with inappropriate behavior in and out of uniform to match. These were the ones who got preggers either before or during a 6 month deployment. It’s like they think replacements for them just appear out of thin air. This hampers the mission and I could imagine how it is in the Army, Marines or the Air Force. Dopey liberals should wake the heck up and realize that the US Military is not a regular 9 to 5 job sujected to normal rules or the social engineering whims of libtards. If it were then there wouldn’t be a UCMJ of a Military Code of Conduct.

Ken b on May 31, 2012 at 2:53 pm

Norman, if you equate breast feeding with peeing, please take all your meals in the bathroom from now on.

I need to add something to my earlier comment however as I was being distracted by someone as I was trying to type. I think the picture is wrong and when I said Luna was ok, I meant in terms of what she is revealing or not. However, I do object to the pictures as propaganda and I strongly object to the one on the left. There is something smarmy about it regardless of what the mother’s occupation is. I would not call Ms. Luna a slut for being misguided about promoting breastfeeding in this manner. The other one, um, somehow qualifies. It’s embarrassing.

Another interesting thing I just remembered is that because we were stationed in Germany, we had to have an evacuation kit ready in case those damn Russkies crossed the border suddenly. On the instruction/info sheet it actually told us that if we were pregnant to plan on breastfeeding. This was in the early days of the “revival.” They also told us not to worry about our babies getting enough food because even men could breast feed enough to keep a baby alive. Apparently, if a baby is put to a man’s nipple, it stimulates the production of colostrum which is the key ingredient of breast milk. I don’t know if this is true or not or if they were just trying to reassure the dependent wives but I guess they Army never did have a problem with soldiers breastfeeding even when they were all men.

Italkit on May 31, 2012 at 3:07 pm

And that’s why kids don’t deploy to a combat zonme with their parents. Serously, I think you are having a hard time understanding that having a family during noraml duty is not the same as being in combat. Either way the kids stay at home with a caregiver or the spouse and there are proper measures in place to ensure a man or woman with kids can deploy without worrying who is taking care of their kids. I mean, you *do* realize that men can’t deploy that have kids if they are single and have no one to care for them right? Your reasoning is senseless. By your standards, then no man or woman who is of childbearing age should be in the military. The only people distracting our fighting men and women from doing their jobs are the closeminded civilians who are trying to make a case out of this issue.

;ean on May 31, 2012 at 3:11 pm

Ken, the old strawman about “those nasty women who got pg while in theatre.” is overused. Blanket stereotyping all women for a few bad apples does nothing to uphold your argument. And let’s be serious here. You make no mention of the doofuses willing to take their weiner out and knock up those sailors. It takes two to tango and it *all* takes away from the effectiveness of unit cohesion.

;ean on May 31, 2012 at 3:19 pm

Even when not describing themselves as such, sorting out the left leaning posters is always easy pickings. Usually they let fly with the venom right out of the gate; sometimes, for a laugh,– ours, that is– its held in till the final sentence.
With a puffed out chest full of pride they proceed, obliviously, to exhibit the mental framework of a teenage liberal.
Sadly, they overcome any ill effects of a rabid disposition. But if age exceeding IQ became a fatal disease, liberal types would be on their way to extinction.

lee, of the lower case "l" on May 31, 2012 at 3:42 pm

Well, these women definitely are not wearing their uniforms properly, they should do this in private. They are representing the Air Force, even they have some standards.

Jarhead on May 31, 2012 at 4:28 pm

I am not happy with your comments about these women.
What they are doing is not offensive it’s natural. What is not natural is feeding a human baby processed cows milk designed for a calf. I don’t find the picture offensive. What a sad society we have become. What an ignorant person you are. Ranting on about breastfeeding as if it’s something sexual!! Again another problem with our society- a woman’s body has a purpose to grow and nourish a child not just a sex object. Are you a mother yourself?

Gaynor on May 31, 2012 at 4:29 pm

Let’s say there was a photo or video clip taken of a US Air Force member feeding a malnourished child a spoon of food after finding the child starving in a war zone. The person (if male) would probably be saluted for their humanity and there’d probably be some kind of uplifting music playing in the background on a Youtube video with some hallmark type words saying what a compassionate hero they are. Right? And you’d all eat it up, shed a tear. Possibly stand up and say ‘God bless America. Aren’t we marvellous’. If female, you’d say: ‘Why is she feeding children on the frontline when she should be fighting the bad guys?’

Then you’d see that same person fighting hard, doing whatever Air Force people do, and possibly it would cut away to them returning home the hero, with a child running up to them, hugging them, looking up at them with adoration. If it was a dad, you’d all think ‘what a guy’. If it was a mother, you’d all think ‘how could she put herself in danger?’

You have massive double standards.

What these women are doing is feeding a child. It’s not sexual. They are being human, much the same way the soldier feeding a refugee is being human. Whether it’s from a spoon or a breast, it’s food. How do you think people were fed before formula? Is the heroic dad returning home to his family any less of a soldier because he has family commitments? Does he love his children any less than the mother of his children? So why should only mothers not be allowed to go into service once they have children?

I am genuinely gobsmacked that there are people like you (original writer and all the supportive commentators above). Appalled that your thinking is so archaic. I am sure that these women do not normally spend their lives ‘getting their tits out’ in uniform. They were making a point to try and overcome some of the fantastically outdated thinking obviously apparent in the USA, as demonstrated on this blog.

And one more comment. Have you ever seen a mother when something happens to her child? Have you seen the lengths she will go to protect her child? Don’t you think that a mother who would absolutely fight to the death to protect her child would have the same fire in her to fight for her nation? It’s her defence of the nation that is protecting her child.

gobsmacked on May 31, 2012 at 4:52 pm

Oh well……

Here we go again. While there is nothing wrong with breast feeding it should be done in private and put on public display.

Funny, there used to be an emotion called shame. It was a response to behavior that our society used to deem as unacceptable. Those days are gone however.

If I recall the job of the military is to kill and defeat the enemy. It is not to be used as a lab enviroment for social experimentation.

Not only are terroists seeing these images, but also the Chinese, North Koreans and other potential adversaries.

Peter on May 31, 2012 at 5:01 pm

I just can’t quite believe how deeply ingrained the idea that breastfeeding is something shameful of.

gobsmacked on May 31, 2012 at 5:09 pm

That is a straw man. No one is saying that breastfeeding is shameful.

If you breast feed, do it in a private place and discreetly and not in public.

Having the need to urinate is also “natural.” I guess gobsmacked and the other feminist posters wouldn’t mind if a soldier whipped it out and pissed right in front of them. After all, why should he piss in private? He is just doing something “natural.” It is nothing to be ashamed of.

JM on May 31, 2012 at 5:25 pm

I went into the Navy as a single woman. I can tell you I was quite naive. I ended up getting married and having two children before I got out. I had a position that would not have taken me to battle. However, when I finally realized there were places that I could not take my children, I opted to get out and rear them as a home maker. Being older and wiser now, I understand completely what Debbie is saying. Women can be in the military – sure, you have that choice but if you make the CHOICE to have a child, that child deserves to know that his mother has made the CHOICE to be around for his needs. Oh! Don’t get me started talking about women that have kids and leave them for grandmother to raise (rear, whatever)!The military should have a reputation for being badass. I’m sorry pictures of breast feeding mothers should be kept in medical pamphlets or women’s magazines but pictures of breast feeding moms in uniform does not leave me quaking in my boots. As a Christian, I don’t agree with the derogatory remarks made against these women but I will say that values are not being taught in many American homes today.

Kristy on May 31, 2012 at 5:29 pm

“Let’s say there was a photo or video clip taken of a US Air Force member feeding a malnourished child a spoon of food after finding the child starving in a war zone.”

You are indeed just rambling now.

“And one more comment. Have you ever seen a mother when something happens to her child? Have you seen the lengths she will go to protect her child? Don’t you think that a mother who would absolutely fight to the death to protect her child would have the same fire in her to fight for her nation? It’s her defence of the nation that is protecting her child.”

Congratulations! That is the most incoherent mass of gibberish I have seen today It is maudlin, inane, and endeavors to equate things that are not equatable. Your whole piece is a splendid example of pure narcissism.

Finally, when you hear someone bewail outmoded thinking, it is generally a strong hint that a real whopper is coming. Preemptive shaming is a tiresome tactic that only works on the unprepared.

“You have massive double standards.” Yup, you can always expect this one to be used as padding for any stale speech. It is akin to, “I stand before you to stand behind you.” In both cases, you are dealing with a yawn inducing piece of rhetoric. The speaker is usually so riddled with inconsistencies that they would topple like an unstable lego piece on a table if confronted with their own “double standards”. The “Double Standards” line would be marked down as a cliche in any public speaking or compostion class.

On the whole, it is a very poor welding job that would be rejeced on an assembly line as substandard. If a line worker put out too many of these “things” they would be sent packing by the shop floor manager, whether they were breastfeeding or not.

Worry01 on May 31, 2012 at 5:32 pm

Jm – there really is no arguing with you. Obviously having a piss is exactly like feeding a baby. You’re right. How could I not see that? More fool me.

gobsmacked on May 31, 2012 at 5:34 pm

worry01 – sue me for rhetoric. Your own isn’t much better.

I’ll leave you Americans to it. It’s bedtime where I am. Congrats on confirming just how narrow minded you are and why a huge part of the world is kinda pissed off with you.

gobsmacked on May 31, 2012 at 5:41 pm

There is a reason human beings do certain things in private. If we want to go around nude in public, no one is exactly stopping us! It may be a facetious point but what Debbie says is where do we draw the line? Why stop with breast-feeding? After all its all “natural” isn’t it? And if that’s our criterion La Leche League porn isn’t the only thing we’ll see inflicted upon our society.

Count on it.

NormanF on May 31, 2012 at 6:11 pm

Another avenue of this that I haven’t heard much about is the safety issue. In this day and age of paroled sex offenders, and mental patients being free to roam our society due to budget cuts, does it make much sense to put ones “assets” out there like that? Last week a crazy guy down the street from my parents was parading around his back yard nude. Off this meds? Pushing the limits of free expression? The man was soon visited by the local PD but it could’ve ended worse. Fact is there are a lot of weirdoes out there to be dangling nude breasts in public.

samurai on May 31, 2012 at 6:52 pm

Well, first of all, as a taxpayer, I resent having to pay the salaries of these exhibitionistic women. It is a sign of the degeneration of any type of military standards that there is even the need for a discussion about the inappropriateness of their actions. But I guess it is academic because our (mis)leaders are departing from the idea that the military should even be a factor in international relations — I guess they just want to see it as a subsidized form of welfare with the trappings of the military to add a good PR twist.

But in a sense, I can’t blame these women for what they are doing, and I can’t blame the Air Force for not taking any action against them. Think of the recruiting potential of this photo. I’m sure the Air Force (and lots of the women who are there) hope that photos like this will attract lots of guys to join up. More sex, more babies, more welfare, and of course, less fighting.

Just like the photo on Time magazine’s cover was designed to increase circulation, I expect the military to use this photo as a means to increase recruitment. Sex sells. And we know the elite doesn’t care about military standards. How many of them have served?

Little Al on May 31, 2012 at 8:29 pm

But would anyone even pay for these women? If you pay you’d probably want something better.

Little Al on May 31, 2012 at 9:06 pm