What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
One male student, Michael Calderon, said that the extreme physical and mental conditions the service members were exposed to made things like gender seem arbitrary.
“You’re way too tired and hungry to actually care,” he said. “At the end of the day, everyone was a Ranger.”
As it should be.
The U.S. Army Ranger School held an historic graduation ceremony on Friday in Fort Benning, Georgia, where it graduated two women for the first time.
Here Are Photos From The First Army Rangers Class To Graduate Women – BuzzFeed News
Hooah!!!!
Congratulations, ladies!
A million thanks to you both!
In this week’s Sunday Conversation, host Rachel Martin speaks with Col. Jeannie Leavitt, the Air Force’s first female fighter pilot, about gender in the Air Force. Leavitt is also the first female fighter wing commander, and she has served in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Source: First Female Fighter Pilot: ‘Attention Wasn’t What I Wanted’ : NPR
I love, love, love her gender-neutral viewpoint.
VA says claims backlog cut below 100,000 cases – Business Insider.
Well, that’s nice. How’s the quality of care? Wait times?
Drop in the bucket, guys.
As ‘Don’t Ask’ Fades, Military Faces Thorny Practical Issues – NYTimes.com
I want to go to the Library and read what the newspapers published about integrating the military and allowing women to serve back in the day for comparison’s sake and context. Why hasn’t any journalist (that I’ve seen) done this?
Gates to troops: no gay ban repeal imminent | Reuters
Fuck what the military wants. They didn’t want to integrate either. The military serves the country and every single member of the military takes orders from someone. If they don’t like it, tough. They serve us and not the other way around.
If the order is given to allow gays and lesbians to serve openly, the US military needs to act like members of a well disciplined military and follow their fucking orders.
U.S. Set to Grab Alleged Jamaican Drug Lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke – ABC News
In other news, the US government goes in, messes thing up, causes civilians and military deaths and doesn’t get their man. We created a clusterfuck.
The US of A: clusterfucks are our speciality.
Senate panel, House approve ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ compromise plan – CNN.com
A major problem might be determining how to reconcile the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” with federal law that defines marriage as between a man a woman, the official added.
Hadn’t thought of that. DADT needs to go. That part is simple. It just got a little bit more interesting though.
Former military officials’ performance in administration questioned
Um, apparently WashPo is leaning towards a non military intelligence director?
Where have I heard this little ditty before?
“invokes new powers”
….As in the sub-title to an AP article I found on abc.com about the ongoing battle between the ACLU and the White House over whether or not to release pictures of detainees being subjected to abuse by their American captors.
Obviously endangering the troops is bad. Invoking new powers to do so strikes me as pretty bad too though. Then again, what do I know? I’m only a voter.
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