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It is not just women, but also gays who face extreme challenges and harassment/degradation in the military. My daughter has to deal with both. But gay men face such obstacles too.
There is a young fella we know who is also of very high intellectual abilities and truly impressive. He was valedictorian of his high school, won state science fair and - amazingly - also a state champion athlete. Although he could have attended college on full scholarship, it would not pay the rent and he comes of a blue collar income family. So he joined the Navy figuring he could get his college credits there. A really nice guy too. Very polite. Clean cut as the expression goes. However, he also is gay.
I asked a few weeks ago how he was doing in the Navy. Between harassment for being both gay and being brilliant, he was washed out and now works at a fast foods restaurant while attending college. This was a terrible lose to the Navy.
This is why I say that military men like braindrain portrays himself in his messages are such a curse on the military. Ranting against women in the military, no longer daring to openly rant against gays but of such attitudes, who believe the military is defined by who can shout oorah! louder. If they were fully in charge our military would still be on horseback and using catapults for which all combat would be WW1 style frontal ground attacks. Their open declarations of ignorance and bigotries are intensely destructive because they are always the past in ranting of "how the military works" - meaning their enemy is the military evolving forward - because inside they know it will evolve past them. Their only source of pride is in unjustified pigheadedness, unearned self glorification and bigotries. He can't brag about what he does - so he attacks a female in a different branch for what she does.
Seriously, someone claiming their proof of total knowledge of all activities of every branch of the military AND defense contractors and industry is because in 'just under a decade and a half" he is going for E8 is not someone to be incharge of anything or anyone - and shouldn't be allowed to just ride out his last 5 years. Bring in someone new of the next generation. There is too much deadweight in the military. Too much stuck-in-the-past ignorant declarations and rantings to be allowed to just stick around.
There is a young fella we know who is also of very high intellectual abilities and truly impressive. He was valedictorian of his high school, won state science fair and - amazingly - also a state champion athlete. Although he could have attended college on full scholarship, it would not pay the rent and he comes of a blue collar income family. So he joined the Navy figuring he could get his college credits there. A really nice guy too. Very polite. Clean cut as the expression goes. However, he also is gay.
I asked a few weeks ago how he was doing in the Navy. Between harassment for being both gay and being brilliant, he was washed out and now works at a fast foods restaurant while attending college. This was a terrible lose to the Navy.
This is why I say that military men like braindrain portrays himself in his messages are such a curse on the military. Ranting against women in the military, no longer daring to openly rant against gays but of such attitudes, who believe the military is defined by who can shout oorah! louder. If they were fully in charge our military would still be on horseback and using catapults for which all combat would be WW1 style frontal ground attacks. Their open declarations of ignorance and bigotries are intensely destructive because they are always the past in ranting of "how the military works" - meaning their enemy is the military evolving forward - because inside they know it will evolve past them. Their only source of pride is in unjustified pigheadedness, unearned self glorification and bigotries. He can't brag about what he does - so he attacks a female in a different branch for what she does.
Seriously, someone claiming their proof of total knowledge of all activities of every branch of the military AND defense contractors and industry is because in 'just under a decade and a half" he is going for E8 is not someone to be incharge of anything or anyone - and shouldn't be allowed to just ride out his last 5 years. Bring in someone new of the next generation. There is too much deadweight in the military. Too much stuck-in-the-past ignorant declarations and rantings to be allowed to just stick around.
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