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Army officer wants 'more average looking women' in public affairs materials - NY Daily News

You gotta get ugly to recruit women into combat, a top female Army officer says.

Col. Lynette Arnhart has declared war on featuring pretty women soldiers in Army public affairs materials — and Capitol Hill lawmakers are livid.
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I'm not sure what forum to put this in but if someone wants it moved then please feel free.

Anyway, it seems that a female officer is in hot water for suggesting that the Army is using women who are "too attractive" in its promotional material and now folks are saying her message is sexist.

Come on now folks, how far down this rabbit hole do we need to go? It's not like the model they used was in a bikini wearing strategically placed claymores or something.

Hell, I don't even know what to think any more. So you can't use models that are "too attractive" and you don't want to stereotype by using someone that is "too plain" so what the hell are you supposed to do!!??

For the love of God....the military has a specific purpose. Please, for the sake of the nation lay off all this PC garbage and just let them do their damned job!!!


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Re: Army officer wants 'more average looking women' in public affairs materials Read

Unless they are equally careful to portray men as model quality and dressed similarly to the gals, ie adjustments made to enhance sexiness, then facts are.... it is sexist. If the military can't recruit without sleights of protrayal of women, then we need to know that and accept the reduction in the numbers of service men.
 
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I think what she actually said was a pretty good observation.

 
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What? You mean to say that the average female soldier shouldn't look like:



or perhaps



Do they have to look like:

 
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The majority of women I worked with in the Army or Air Force were average looking women, neither ugly nor overly pretty. In the medical corps, there were more that were on the pretty side, and only a very few of those that I would want beside me in a firefight.

I don't know if good looks have any correlation with a lack of fighting capability, but the average to butt ugly ones seemed to be better at dealing with it when the crap hit the fan.

The Colonel in this article knows more about what she needs in her troops than some PC police. Although, after looking at the picture, I thought the Corporal looked rather average for a female Army soldier. Throw some mud on her and that would take care of it.
 
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That was my take.

In my experience in the service I really can't say that appearance had anything at all to do with performance. Granted, some of the real hotties were more distracting to work with but that was my issue, not theirs.
 
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What "enhancements" did the woman in the advertisement have? She was so kitted up that it couldn't possibly have made a difference.
 
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When you force women to exercise every day it can be tougher to find ugly ones.
 
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Deuce said:
When you force women to exercise every day it can be tougher to find ugly ones.
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Good grief:doh

Do you really believe that women benefit more from exercise than men do? Being physically fit is a requirement of all service members without regard to gender.
 
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How come no one is concerned about how handsome the male soldiers are?
 
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One thing that I have noticed is that every commercial that you see, every ad, every story.... there is always a mix of races and genders.

Sitting here in my office in AFG, I can see three posters from where I sit. All three have a hispanic, a "person of color", a white person, a female, or a combination of the above. There is not a single poster or news story about the military where you will see only a white male, unless the story is about a specific person.

It is marketing. It is always going to be that way.

The Big Mac in the commercial is ALWAYS going to be perfect and nothing like the burger that one would get to eat.
 
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It doesn't surprise me and it was expected that the PC activist are at it again of dumbing down things in the name of political correctness and diversity.

Now they are dumbing down what is average looking for women.

No heterosexual male will throw an average looking woman out of bed.

I think Col. Lynette Arnhart may be a lesbo ####.


Col. Lynette Arnhart



An above average looking female American soldier, Theresa Vail



Take away their uniforms and you have average looking female soldiers.
 
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The fact of the matter is that using attractive models yields more customers, or in the case of the Military, new troops. They're going to use pictures of attractive Service Members doing badass things, because that's what draws people in. It's a time tested and proven method, so why stop doing what works?
 
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true enough, recruitment posters for the DEA and FBI and USMS I constantly used to see didn't have-for example-that infamous DEA agent who shot himself in his lower leg with a Glock in front of a bunch of school kids.
 
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TurtleDude said:
true enough, recruitment posters for the DEA and FBI and USMS I constantly used to see didn't have-for example-that infamous DEA agent who shot himself in his lower leg with a Glock in front of a bunch of school kids.
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It's just silly for her to demand that we not use the image of the best and beautiful. Everybody does it, from police to the US Postal Service. "Equality" has no place in the US Military.
 
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Surtr said:
It's just silly for her to demand that we not use the image of the best and beautiful. Everybody does it, from police to the US Postal Service. "Equality" has no place in the US Military.
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I agree though i don't recall seeing any cute Postal workers. Maybe that's why they lost five billion last year:mrgreen:
 
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