I have a piece up at Big Peace regarding NASA's mission to boldly comfort pander where no NASA has comforted pandered before...
And Cassandra has a toothsome piece up on Sex and the Sailor...
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Matt at Blackfive on the "clarify, not change the ROE" thrust of General Petraeus' assumption of duties in Afghanistan.
And Cassandra has a toothsome piece up on Sex and the Sailor...
Navy: Men Have "Duty" To Protect Women From Themselves? Really?
This is so incandescently idiotic - on so many levels - that I don't even know what to say about it. Sometimes the stupid is just overpowering:
The U.S. Navy wants commanders to "feel very uncomfortable" about sexual assaults, happening at a rate of more than one a day, military officials said.
"My goal is to make every single commander that has a sexual assault occur at their command feel very uncomfortable and wonder, 'Why is this happening in my command?'" Vice Chief of Naval Operations Jonathan Greenert said in a speech in San Diego.
Gee, I don't know. Perhaps these things happen because the men and women in your command have what is euphemistically termed a "casual attitude towards sex"?
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Matt at Blackfive on the "clarify, not change the ROE" thrust of General Petraeus' assumption of duties in Afghanistan.
Why am I not getting any myself?
Cheers
Then they tell some poor skipper that it is his fault that there if frigging in the rigging. And if he dares to punish any of the gurlz, he will be fired for some sort of discrimination complaint.
It's not so much a command problem as it is a DOD policy problem, turning a fighting fleet into a "global force for good times and free child care".
That and women make up less than 20% of the personell on their ships.
Don't get me wrong the Army ain't over flowin but its a heckuva lot easier to meet indingenous people on land than it ever was in the middle of the gawdforsaken ocean.
Just sayin' :)
Back in the late '70s, I was working for our Navy as a civilian printer. One day, as I was checking in the copy for a manual we were to print, I came across a illustration of the Navy's "pregnancy uniform". At that point, I realized that someone had seriously gone off the military track.