As the CBMW has explained, the reason we opened combat roles up to women is because cowardly men were forcing women to serve in their place. Given today’s announcement by Defense Secretary Ash Carter, the only explanation can be that cisgendered people are refusing to serve, and insisting that trans-gendered serve in their place. First men who identify as men wouldn’t fight, so women who wanted to be like men had to join. Now, men who identify as women are forced to fight in the place of…
I’m not sure. I’m fairly certain it is cisgendered married men’s fault though, especially if they are fathers. Perhaps if married men were better at implementing crossdressing theology (marital cross-dressing), we wouldn’t need crossdressing in the military (martial cross-dressing).
… so women who wanted to be like men had to join.
But, they’ve already lifted the ban on transgender troops …
say what?! A very simple solution. If they want the vote, they sign up for the draft as well. Don’t even need to care about the gender, just one swoop and it’s all done.
Is cisgender a real word, or another phony one like homophobic?
I don’t mean to criticize your use of it here.
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Good lord this is getting out of hand.
Even more phony, since transgenders don’t exist, while homos do
Also in the news today: “Navy report: Failure at every level for US ships captured by Iran”. Clearly the armed forces’ focus is “integration” rather than preparedness and execution.
Today US military recruits do not evenly represent the United States.
That is to say, you (or an enemy of the US) is far more likely to encounter a US solider who hails from either a south central US state or a south Atlantic state than you would one who comes from a place like California, Michigan, New York or Pennsylvania.
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-military-is-not-representative-of-country-2014-7
So new transgender recruits will be joining a US military as comrades in arms with predominantly Christians, mostly baptists, with rather stark opinions about “gays”, transvestites and verses in Leviticus.
Still, the US military is like no other in terms of breaking down individuals of all origins, races and creeds into worthless pukes and then building them back up into smart, fit and formidable killing machines.
” Now, men who identify as women are forced to fight in the place of…”
Men who identify as Christian.
Dalrock this trannie/gay/bisexual/cis nonsense is giving me a permanent headache. Even Obongos military advisors told him putting gays in the military would harm combat readiness. It has. Those sailors captured by the Iranians didn’t know what to do in case of capture by hostile forces but I bet they had all the gender awareness, cis-privilege, transgender acceptance seminars they could handle. They might not be up on military protocol but does anybody want to bet they knew the differences between a transexual male who prefers female pronouns and a gender fluid queer man(gina) who prefers the more inclusive pronoun conjugates H’she and Sh’him. Anything less would be intolerant and bigoted you cis-white male shitlord.
This progression is/was inevitable as the military services ceased their traditional role of defending the nation-state and became just another jobs program where anyone and everyone can “fulfill themselves.” It’s just another government job, same rules apply…its mission ends where its’ members feelings begin.
Still, the US military is like no other in terms of breaking down individuals of all origins, races and creeds into worthless pukes and then building them back up into smart, fit and formidable killing machines.
You need to come out of 1945, 55, 65 and join 2016. The DoD is, in general, pozzed worse than any other segment of the government – having just left a mandatory SHARP seminar where “men watching porn leads directly to physical rape” and “women get to choose whether to report someone grabbing their butts depending on how hot the guy was” were presented as unassailable facts.
I have a close friend very high in elite armed forces who has had to deal with the recent instructed integration of women. In short, he has described that the military has gone from pure authority to “collaboration.” Another case of trickle-down home-economics infiltrating all. The wife won collaboration in marriage long ago. Then in the home, then the church, then in the business, then government, and now the last bastion: military and law enforcement.
Ah, is there anything more I’m forgetting that we can hand over to them?
rugby11 says:
June 30, 2016 at 2:12 pm
Good lord this is getting out of hand.
It’s over.
I was in the machine for a very long time indeed, wars, coups, all that stuff. (I didn’t serve with Mitchell Paige, who won the Medal of Honor on Guadalcanal, but I did meet him once). It was mission first – people somewhere around 9th or so, if all the stars aligned on your lucky day. You were told in stark terms from day one that it is not about you, only what you can do to contribute to mission success.
Now it is well beyond even “integration”. Drastic measures are taken to ensure the individual desires of women particularly, and LBTGQABCDEFG into the bargain are met. You have seen the evidence in subject matter and comments in some of these threads – the proverbial iceberg’s tip worth.
Many uniformed young men lately are looking around and asking themselves what the hell? If he has any nascent red pill in him, he does not want to follow a woman into war or even the chow hall. If he wanted to put himself to a test, well – girls do it too so screw it.
I never encourage a young man to get involved with it. I hope they all get out at the end of current enlistment. Turn the whole thing over to the ladies and the disordered. It will be quite the thing to see next time we meet a near peer competitor on a battlefield.
As someone once said on this site – let it burn. This is the only way left that I can see to learn a hard lesson.
Bitter and twisted? Affirmative.
There is no logic to it Dalrock. It is as it always has been: enabling female rebelling, calling good evil and evil good, and destroying male institutions. The only response can be ridicule and condemnation.
I for one and happy to see it. We no longer need to worry about the whole, you can’t defeat the US empire’s military in a civil war garbage. Here’s hoping the drone operators are similarly converged and the autonomous stuff is a ways out.
I look forward to them lifting all the other bans on military service that are in place for medical reasons. Chronic gastrointestinal diseases, AIDS, mental health issues like bipolar disorder or schizophrenia… apparently we’ve got the capability to sustain a soldier on a complex drug regime even in the most bare-bones of deployed locations, don’t have to worry about basic health, sanitary, or behavioral concerns, and certainly have no issues with how this might affect somebody’s physical performance.
I suppose the CBMW will argue that it’s cowardly men’s fault that the Marines are removing the word “man” from 19 jobs too:
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/story/military/2016/06/27/marines-remove-word-man-these-19-job-titles/86438594/
Importing millions of military aged young men from a hostile culture dedicated to destroying all other cultures, coupled with making the military unable to fight, would seem to me to be one way to overturn the Constitution by force.
There is a definition of the word “Treason” in the Constitution, by the way. It’s not limited to declared wartime.
My biggest dread on that bus bound for Army basic training in 198x: “please don’t let me have a female drill seegeant… I want solid training, not a PMS’ing bitch…” we’re my exact thoughts.
It was a male DS. A very good one, too.
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“Perhaps if married men were better at implementing crossdressing theology (marital cross-dressing), we wouldn’t need crossdressing in the military (martial cross-dressing).”
I see what you did there! Haha. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so real.
Cane said, “Is cisgender a real word, or another phony one like homophobic?”
It’s another political non-word the professional victims created like, “Abortion”, “Assault Weapon” and “White Privilege”.
Still, the US military is like no other in terms of breaking down individuals of all origins, races and creeds into worthless pukes and then building them back up into smart, fit and formidable killing machines.
Nope, not anymore. At least not the “smart, fit, formidable killing machine” part.
Brainwashing the individuality out of them and turning them into bots that will do whatever their told? Check.
Turning them into warriors in the process? Not anymore. That’s no longer the U.S. military’s mission except for elite Special Forces units (and even they’re being slowly put out of business by he current poisoning of the system).
Whatever THEY’RE told … sorry
I pine for an earlier era, in which instead of calling these people ” trans-gendered” we just called them “perverts”.
You do realize that under this new policy the trannies will receive medical care necessary to maintain their chosen gender, up to and including sex reassignment surgery. The good old US corporation spending your tax money wisely.
”cisgender” is using the language of the enemy hence allowing them to define the language and thought process. They are so cucked.
This. A pointed summary of all that is wrong with the military.
What can’t go on, won’t go on. As soon as we meet a competent enemy it will come crashing down.
This. A pointed summary of all that is wrong with the military.
What can’t go on, won’t go on. As soon as we meet a competent enemy it will come crashing down.
People cite parallels to the decline and fall of the Western Roman Empire, but I think that we’re on much faster downward trajectory militarily. Rome’s soldiers in the Empire’s final century may have ultimately been underequipped and spread far too thin across what remained of the Empire to be effective, but at least they were skilled, serious, professional soldiers. Even the most inept and corrupt among the last of the emperors respected the legions and never doubted their purpose. There were no Fifth Century equivalents of “transgendered” or other freakish refuse polluting the Roman military, which was not viewed as a “laboratory for social experimentation.”
cis-what? Should we even give such Ministry of Truth terminologies use?
As the CBMW has explained, the reason we opened combat roles up to women is because cowardly men were forcing women to serve in their place.
Of all the cuckservative cowardice and idiocy, this meme is the dumbest.
If the cucks knew anything at all about female psychology, they would know that if men really were avoiding military service in the face of foreign aggression, the natural reaction of women would be to switch sides. The notion that women would step up to defend their country is so antithetical to the truth about female nature that only a cuckservative would believe it.
I write this comment one hundred years to the day of the commencement of the Battle of The Somme: British losses in the five months of the battle 793,238. Wiki inexplicably fails to distinguish in the casualty figures between the Cisgendered, the Transvestites and the Women (who suffered most).
Of course “cis-gendered” is a crank neologism. That’s why it’s funny.
The strangely ubiquitous “gender” itself is a phony concept coined by this nutjob:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Money
Is this even a thing? I haven’t heard anyone on any news outlet or any talk show (left of right) complain about men not manning up to serve in combat roles…
That is twice as many people as the United States buried in ALL of our action during World War 2. That is MORE than all of our combined losses, North and South, in the civil war.
greenlanader: I pine for an earlier era, in which instead of calling these people ” trans-gendered” we just called them “perverts”.
Some might consider “pervert” too judgmental. I’d settle for an objective term: mentally ill.
Even though the sanctimony is contrived and heroism is false, the serotonin rush is real. The left has a chemical addiction to heroic indignation. They will arrange ‘reality’ however they must to provide themselves with the opportunity to virtue signal and get their hit of righteous indignation. The terms and circumstances of the situations don’t matter at all as long as they get the rush of SJW-based faux heroics. The details are going to get more and more insane. It’s only beginning.
–Mattress girl
–Triggly Puff
–1 in 4 rapes
–Men given free access to high school girls shower rooms
–YMY
–Marines honoring trannies
–Lean In activism
–He for She
etc.
And the mechanics of the internet are speeding all of this stuff up. The left requires a hit of heroic serotonin (how about ‘herotonin’?) every few days now.
Buckle up. This stuff is getting so insane and there is nothing in place as far as cultural/mental mechanics that can set any parameters on any of it.
Many years ago, I was at a Libertarian Party event. A group of us, mostly white men, sat in a circle on folding chairs, discussing the upcoming elections.
A transgender man was present. Never met him before. Obviously born male, but dressed and made up as female, with a female name. I don’t know if he was pre-op or post-op, or what his/her personal story was.
As the men conversed, this trans-person got off his chair and sat on the floor, in the middle of the circle, like a child. Sometimes sitting cross-legged, but occasionally lying across the floor like a bored, petulant little girl (looked to be in his 30s). From there he tossed his/her random political observations into the conversation.
All the other men, myself included, ignored this trans-libertarian as politely we could. Looking past him/her, carrying on our conversation while ignoring this freakish adult lying on the floor in front of us.
It reinforced in my mind 1. these people are mentally ill, and 2. nobody in polite society, myself included, wants to be the first to publicly rebuke them.
I’m no longer a libertarian.
@ constrainedlocus says:
June 30, 2016 at 2:44 pm
“So new transgender recruits will be joining a US military as comrades in arms with predominantly Christians, mostly baptists, with rather stark opinions about ‘gays’, transvestites and verses in Leviticus.”
I discussed this with a fellow officer. I get the feeling that the purpose of all these decisions (women, then gays, then “trannies”, then… what?) is to convince the men who for decades formed the military’s core to leave the military or not volunteer in the first place.
The purpose of that appears to be two-fold:
1. It weakens the military, which weakens American (and Western) power in general, which the Left sees as inherently evil.
2. The kind of men that the military is currently “hemorrhaging” (to use my friend’s term) are the kind who would turn on their leadership if ordered to turn on the American people.
On top of that, as Dalrock has astutely pointed out, it robs a lot of (mostly white, Christian) men of a source of manly honor. It’s a multifaceted victory for the Left.
Why did the gender cross the road?
Senator: Navy Department evaluates commanders based on their views of “climate change.”
http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/30/senator-navy-evaluates-commanders-based-on-climate-change-views/
Notice by the way that as with the word Racist (always used an insult) that the neologism Cis-gender has a double hissing sound to it, and hissing always indicates disapproval. Logically the Trannies, the cock-in-frocks, the gurlie-men, should be the Sissy-gender. Is this not then a deliberate attempt to treat as sissy what is normal and what is rather pathetic as, by the use of the strong word Trans – Trans-Continental, Trans-Atlantic, Trans-World, something that is anything but.
Can I have an A+ for that Professor Chomsky?
From the climate change article: “Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse recently told people gathered in New York City that global warming “denial” hurts U.S. soldiers in the field and that the “main problem” with the military is its reluctance to join the climate crusade.”
But…but…that would make us ALL…
Climate change survivors!!!
(sure hope there are enough medals to go around)
Anon says:
“…if men really were avoiding military service in the face of foreign aggression, the natural reaction of women would be to switch sides.”
You get some of the best one liners here. I’m starting a collection.
The purpose of that appears to be two-fold:
1. It weakens the military, which weakens American (and Western) power in general, which the Left sees as inherently evil.
2. The kind of men that the military is currently “hemorrhaging” (to use my friend’s term) are the kind who would turn on their leadership if ordered to turn on the American people.
Yup.
I do sometimes wonder, though, if, where your point number 2 is concerned, TPTB haven’t paused to ponder the fact that there are MILLIONS of us veterans out there, more than a few of us with combat experience, who will gladly organize resistance to any attempt they might make to impose martial law and use what now passes for a military force as a Praetorian Guard.
Ping Dalrock Author and old timers:
Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) is headed back to the divorce courts.
http://www.onbreaking.com/random/elizabeth-gilbert-announces-separation-husband-jose-nunes/
This crap never ceases to amuse and entertain, I sweartagawd.
Boxer
Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) is headed back to the divorce courts.
So will she try to wring another book out of this experience?
“Why did the gender cross the road?”
So xhe could find tenure on the other side.
“I do sometimes wonder, though, if, where your point number 2 is concerned, TPTB haven’t paused to ponder the fact that there are MILLIONS of us veterans out there, more than a few of us with combat experience, who will gladly organize resistance…”
They have. That’s why they’re so keen on pushing gun confiscation.
Bonus: it’s a nice backhanded way to further demoralize and set the stage for seriously fucking over white men.
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/146307088451/why-gun-control-cant-be-solved-in-the-usa
Gun control will be one of the crowning achievements of feminism. First, split the tribe. Then, sell ill-conceived feel-good poison policy to women and muddleheaded wo-males. Finally, chuckle at your opponents’ love of degenerate idiocy as they happily abandon the last bit of leverage they have left over you. Consolidate power. Dworkin Adipos Maximvs!
Off topic, but I suspect you will all love this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3670331/Eat-Pray-Love-bestselling-author-Elizabeth-Gilbert-splits-husband-wrote-love-story-hit-book.html
hahahahahahahahaha … no, I’m sorry this is tragic. Forgive me, I can’t … I shouldn’t … but hahahahahahahhaha!
[D: The comments at the Daily Mail are brutal.]
That is twice as many people as the United States buried in ALL of our action during World War 2. That is MORE than all of our combined losses, North and South, in the civil war.
That was a huge number. By many accounts, Britain and France each lost an entire generation of young men in WW1.
But that was the time of ‘male privilege’ and Marriage 1.0, so women were hardest hit.
Stuff like this makes you wonder whether the jihadists have a point after all.
Seriously, at this point I wonder whether men would or should volunteer at all. Beyond the stupidity, it’s obvious military readiness and leadership are being seriously compromised by all this nonsense and you are likely to end up as cannon fodder if real hostilities break out somewhere.
The sign posted at the restaurant, “Eat. Pay. Leave.” Classic.
Nice play on the “marital – martial”, Dalrock. True though.
Perhaps military age men have woken up to the fact that they end up fighting stupid wars on trumped up excuses for elites of a different tribe who don’t give a damn about them when they return
home maimed and shattered. Hmmm: sounds just like the modern wife…
Meanwhile, elite- lackies like John Kerry stir up war against Russia, who has updated its military and proved it with a far more efficient War on Terror on Syria than any of the Western Allies combined. They also have several divisions of automated tanks.
At Stalingrad 1942, soldiers fought for control of the city’s sewers. This required them to fight with pistols, knives and clubs knee, waist and sometimes chest-deep in excrement. Will Western feminized armies, whose “soldiers” main preoccupation is what to to with penises, be able to execute the same orders?
@ Spike says:
July 1, 2016 at 7:14 pm
“At Stalingrad 1942, soldiers fought for control of the city’s sewers. This required them to fight with pistols, knives and clubs knee, waist and sometimes chest-deep in excrement. Will Western feminized armies, whose ‘soldiers’ main preoccupation is what to to with penises, be able to execute the same orders?”
If it ever gets to that point, we won’t have to worry about all this insanity anymore. Unfortunately, I fear that’s exactly what it’ll take to put an end to the insanity.
LMAO at Elizabeth Gilbert
New Book;
Eat, Pray, Love, 75-Year-Old Cardboard Stereotype of a Latin Lover Husband Gets Erectile Dysfunction, Divorce, Merlot, Cats, Prozac, Focus on Body Acceptance Issues Post-50, Shiraz, Marry a Bangladeshi Brick Layer, Cabernet Sauvignon, Go on The View, Xanax, Blame Patriarchy, Become World’s First Recorded Case of Narcissism-Induced Aneurysm, Die.
@Amirantes:
I just read the Daily Mail article on Elizabeth Gilbert. Nauseating stuff, if I hadn’t been hard-bitten by the vileness of feminism.
What irks me to no end about progressive, leftist, feminist women, is that they’re all “full of love and understanding”, they all have “evolved to higher levels” and similar shit, all with a string of relationship failure wreckages behind them . They are the ultimate hypocrites, who are capable of loving everyone, except those closest to them, who actually profess to do exactly that.
Hamster, sure, but don’t they ever wake up to their own bullshit?
What irks me to no end about progressive, leftist, feminist women, is that they’re all “full of love and understanding”, they all have “evolved to higher levels” and similar shit, all with a string of relationship failure wreckages behind them .
There is no type of human being more useless than the hardcore ‘feminist’. None.
Progressives;
“Love humanity, hate people.”
Elizabeth Gilbert = all of the New Age feminist clichès neatly bundled in one container. Pathetic.
I take it no Selective Service for them, then?
The comments in the Daily Mail article are telling. Here’s a nugget from Madfe, who I presume is a Modern British Woman:
So many people stay in awful relationships because they don’t have the courage to leave and are more worried about what other people think and that they’ll look a failure. This lady has guts.
Stupid, worthless bitch Madfe, celebrating a woman’s “courage” over breaking her marriage vow. Yet would Madfe celebrate a man who had the “courage” to break his marriage vow?
OP related. Some readership here might like.
http://www.dailycrow.com/you-summit-when-you-should-submit/
constrainedlocus — ‘Still, the US military is like no other in terms of breaking down individuals of all origins, races and creeds into worthless pukes and then building them back up into smart, fit and formidable killing machines.’
Yeah. Who they gonna be killing, though?
Lord Rofl — “Gun control will be one of the crowning achievements of feminism. First, split the tribe. Then, sell ill-conceived feel-good poison policy to women and muddleheaded wo-males. Finally, chuckle at your opponents’ love of degenerate idiocy as they happily abandon the last bit of leverage they have left over you.”
Yep.
Only a fool volunteers to serve the overlords by self conscription. If other idiots are willing to fill the void and get their legs blown off in the middle east, they can knock themselves out.
I don’t wonder anymore. If a young man manages to get through it without being brainwashed by PC or destroyed over a false rape or harrassment charge, he can look forward to being passed over for promotion in favor of various victim groups, and eventually sent off to be shot at and possibly killed by people he has no beef with for the glories of globalism. Now that they’re stripping out the last positive aspects — being challenged to your limit as a man and growing in a disciplined, masculine environment — or making them worthless — paying for a college career, which is no longer a good plan for most — there’s no reason to risk that.
Now, if the Huns are landing on our shores, joining a militia to fight in defense of hearth and home would be completely different.
constrainedlocus: the US military is like no other in terms of breaking down individuals of all origins, races and creeds into worthless pukes and then building them back up into smart, fit and formidable killing machines.
But not of all sexes and gender identities.
When it comes to building up womyn and trannies into “formidable killing machines, I think the U.S. military has met with a bridge too far.
Off Topic:
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/saeed.abedini.why.is.it.so.hard.to.accept.he.isnt.perfect/89672.htm
Pastor assumes Abedini abused his wife and is addicted to porn with no evidence except that the wife claimed he “abused her while he was in an Iranian prison” and his admission that he “used pornography while in prison.”
Somebody contact this pastor and tell him he is an ungodly traitor.
Author even goes so far to say: “It’s impossible not to speculate about whether his evidently passionate commitment to the subordination of women has a psychological component. And instead of being encouraged to retreat and to receive help and healing, he is is being encouraged to become a warrior in the culture wars and a rallying-point for anti-Hillary supporters.”
Note how they assume everything this woman said is Gospel with no evidence- strong evidence that she is untruthful and deceitful, in fact. Stories like this must be challenged if we have any hope.
“When it comes to building up womyn and trannies into “formidable killing machines,” I think the U.S. military has met with a bridge too far.”
I imagine they are placing their bets, however unsustainably, on semi-autonomous robots doing most of the future killing and occupying.
* 15:30 Oversee hellfire drone strike.
* 15:35 Release to post-action AI. (High score! *Kitten emoji*)
* 15:40 Facebook time.
* 14:05 Minivan to PX Starbucks drive-through.
* 14:30 Scroll though “Eat, Pray, Love 2: Geriatric Boogaloo” waiting at base daycare.
* 14:31 Bored, randy from the sugar high and the infrared false-color insurgent slaughter; swiping time.
* 14:31:30 Swipe left, swipe left, swipe left… wonder if the new “Orange is the New Black” episode is out… where have all the good men gone?
BPP if you please, refresh my memory on this. The new testament has some guidelines for resolving disputes. Something like “go to the person with someone else, if that doesn’t work then go again with 2 or more witnesses”.
Seems to me the churches have adopted the faminist premise, “Women Never Lie”. I’m not any expert on the Bible, but I did read Proverbs and that idea isn’t anywhere in that book. Rather the opposite, in fact. So these preachers seeking to nail Abdeni are more conservative feminist than anything else. Given the way some people read Bible quotes into pretzels, it seems likely that they can justify it somehow or other, too.
Just as I predicted last year, Abdeni’s wife prepped the conflict space quite well with her accusations while he was in the Iranian jail. It seems to be popular in some churches for men to confess any bad behavior to their wives, especially anything vaguely sexually driven. What if Abdeni, following the modern trend, told his wife somehow that he’d looked at smuggled porn in that Iranian jail, and now she’s used it as ammo against him?
@ Red Pill Latecomer says:
July 2, 2016 at 12:43 pm
“When it comes to building up womyn and trannies into ‘formidable killing machines’, I think the U.S. military has met with a bridge too far.”
Building women and trannies into formidable killing machines was never the point.
@spike
People who don’t wake up to their own bullshit are given over by God to their delusion to destruction.
Transgenders can serve, but if you’re over 35 they won’t let you sign up. Go figure.
This is the thanks we get for risking life and limb:
http://www.mysuncoast.com/news/local/veteran-chooses-jail-over-giving-his-disability-money-to-ex/article_45af2ac2-3ea9-11e4-8aea-0017a43b2370.html
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Most people who join the US military are poor.
@Chris, because 35 is middle aged. The body really starts to decline around then.
Llama, are you seriously claming that transvestites taking hormones are healthier than a fit 35 year old man? Really?
Just put a rifle in their hand and point them toward the front line. Vaya con dios.
Sorry Dalrock if it’s poor form to bring back old material, but I thought of this post the minute I saw it. The male sailors have been, or are in the process of being punished for their part in this embarrassement. The one female aboard has been awarded a medal for calling for help.
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/08/10/female-sailor-recognized-for-bravery-iranian-detention-incident.html?
If that link doesn’t work just search for:
‘Female Sailor Recognized for Bravery During Iranian Detention Incident’
Once we go to all female crews, we won’t have these sorts of problems. sarc not troll.