The Original Old Farts Club

[Unca Walt]

That’s how some of us Split-tails do it Walt

To give you an idea of my John Wayne outlook. Women are to be respected and protected.

I am a virgin -- once removed by Herself after marriage -- and we have been happily married for 62 years without tsimmis. We love each other and each other's presence.

My Scottish Witchie-poo is smarter than me and handles ALL the bidness. I haven't a clue about what and how she does it.

But I take the hot food out of the oven so she doesn't get a burn. <-- little things like that times a hundred. And whatever is furgled up around the Chateau is my responsibility.

In the military, when a sojer comes in sayin' his wife just had a baby -- he will immediately be queried:

"Little split-tail or little hardlegs?" or "softlegs or hardlegs"? It is asked in bonhomie, not humor.

And one last thing:

Even the idea of a lady combat pilot is -- for Himself -- a standard no-no.

Why? Because the training for, say, an F-16 Super Hornet to land on a carrier in the fargin dark in the fargin rain (yes, training for exactly that), along with all the other training for flight operations...

...Goes right overboard with the anchor on account of whut Gawd did:

If you put a lot of sooper-healthy pussycats on a giant boat fulla horny sailors and you will have -- have had -- the classic "Love Boat Syndrome". So whut?

Well, in all air combat history, there has never ever -- not even once -- been a man who got pregnant after multi-millions in training. But... a female pilot?

Most ricky-tick. Seems that particular characteristic is built-in... to the detriment of the whole Navy.

 

[RosterMan]

I once owned a catamaran named Split Tails

Found it

 

[pute]

Afternoon. Not much going on here. Can't walk as the weather sucks so......here I sit staring at the computer screen.

Nice boat Hydra, I took my family on a week catamaran trip in the BVI's . It was one of those where we had everything catered. Great diving. Loved the boat except when you went to the bedrooms I got a bit sea sick. It was for my daughters HS graduation present....25 years ago.

@ Sub Girl......taxes....paid my first quarter yesterday. Then again in June, Sept and Jan. Death and taxes are the only two things that are surely gonna happen in life. I actually have a new one to add, especially with the current administration running the country......INFLATION......!!!

Back to staring at the computer screen.

 

[SubmarineGirl]

To give you an idea of my John Wayne outlook. Women are to be respected and protected.

I am a virgin -- once removed by Herself after marriage -- and we have been happily married for 62 years without tsimmis. We love each other and each other's presence.

My Scottish Witchie-poo is smarter than me and handles ALL the bidness. I haven't a clue about what and how she does it.

But I take the hot food out of the oven so she doesn't get a burn. <-- little things like that times a hundred. And whatever is furgled up around the Chateau is my responsibility.

In the military, when a sojer comes in sayin' his wife just had a baby -- he will immediately be queried:

"Little split-tail or little hardlegs?" or "softlegs or hardlegs"? It is asked in bonhomie, not humor.

And one last thing:

Even the idea of a lady combat pilot is -- for Himself -- a standard no-no.

Why? Because the training for, say, an F-16 Super Hornet to land on a carrier in the fargin dark in the fargin rain (yes, training for exactly that), along with all the other training for flight operations...

...Goes right overboard with the anchor on account of whut Gawd did:

If you put a lot of sooper-healthy pussycats on a giant boat fulla horny sailors and you will have -- have had -- the classic "Love Boat Syndrome". So whut?

Well, in all air combat history, there has never ever -- not even once -- been a man who got pregnant after multi-millions in training. But... a female pilot?

Most ricky-tick. Seems that particular characteristic is built-in... to the detriment of the whole Navy.

sometimes “wow“ is just the best reply for me. Maybe this time I should too.

It must bother you then that there are already women standing duty on submarines under the sea this very minute managing critical submarine systems under way ready to push the red button to defend our country on US submarines worked on by qualified women mechanics and inspected and certified by qualified women quality assurance representatives huh?

 

[RosterMan]

We may have to call in NATO troops soon LOL
Let Roster push the button it will always misfire

 

[boo]

you got about an hour roster, it's on in about 75 minutes...

 

[RosterMan]

you got about an hour roster, it's on in about 75 minutes...

 

[boo]

 

[RosterMan]

 

[RosterMan]

It's time @boo Night bro

 

[SubmarineGirl]

Y’all so funny, ain’t nuthin gonna happen…

 

[RosterMan]

Y’all so funny, ain’t nuthin gonna happen…

Just for you

The incredible first woman to fly a military aircraft in the US Army Air Force during World War II Bernice "Bee" Falk Haydu

For most of her life, Bernice “Bee” Falk Haydu has been a champion of the WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots), the first women to fly military aircraft in the US Army Air Force during World War II. Haydu went through the seven-month training program and was on track to fly B-25s in the war until the WASP were disbanded in December 1944, prior to the war’s end.

Later, as President of the WASP organization from 1975 to 1978, she led the fight in Congress to acknowledge the WASP as veterans of World War II, as had been promised. She won—President Jimmy Carter signed a bill in November 1977 recognizing WASP as WWII veterans.

Haydu’s passion for flying continued even after the WASP run ended, and she went on to become a flight instructor, owner of a Cessna dealership, and even part owner of a flight school. She and her late husband, Joseph Haydu—also a pilot—continued to fly into their late 70s and owned 28 different types of planes. Haydu is a member of the Aviation Hall of Fame and her original WASP uniform is on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.

In 2009, she witnessed the President sign a bill into law awarding the WASP the Congressional Gold Medal. Haydu was awarded the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award by the FAA in 2014 and an Honorary Doctorate Degree by the Vaughn College of Aeronautics in Flushing, New York, in May of 2015. She is also the author of Letters Home: 1944-1945, based on letters she wrote home about her WASP experiences during World War II that her mother saved.

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[Hippie420]

Luv yer spunk. And accept and admire your sincerity.

But factual naval data backs me up and dumpeth upon thy very nice brow:

Ships tend to sink if holed and not pumped. Unfortunately, the women failed the Emergency Pump Carry at first, middle, and final. Never passed.

They could not move the pumps on day one, day ten, nor on the last day. On board a warship in damaged condition, they failed to save the ship.

It does NOT mean men are superior. IMO, women are -- overall -- most ricky-tick superior to men. Just not in life-critical upper-body strength. <-- This leaves VERY broad fields in the military that can be done by women just fine, and better than men in many cases.

The basic role of a combat sojer is dray-horse level effort. In the Navy, you can be a typist in the highest tower of your heavy cruiser. But as a shipmate, you are required to carry the fargin pumps... It is a standard test required before any Navy ship can leave port.

HOWEVER:

Further, the gentler race has consistently failed the emergency carry of a fully-equipped wounded soldier. They just are not strong enough for this sort of thing.

In combat roles, they suck. About as badly as any man would be trying nurse a baby. Not built for it.

The weapon the dude is carrying is calle a Pig. It weighs 62 pounds, and the mount weighs 80 pounds. The ammo weighs 25+ <-- This is a vitally important weapon, and it must not just be lifted, but lifted and carried -- miles, in any terrain mud, jungle, etc. at an "instant use" profile. God bless girlies, but they'd never survive twenty feet.

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Actual combat photos:
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In sum -- My position is this:

There are literally hundreds of jobs for women in ALL branches of the service. But if they have to stop doing their regular job and save the ship because ALL THE MEN ARE DOWN OR DEAD that carry the emergency pumps... Well, then the ship is going down. Needed a man. This is the test they failed. A radar operator lady fails as a pump-carrier.

So NO women on board combat ships. NO women in forward ground combat. Trust yer Unca, this is an "equality" that you do not have or should want.

Now -- flying? SOOPER. Although, if you do not want to fly into the back of a carrier like that pretty lady did, DO NOT "ease up" on the strict protocols because she is a woman, like they did with her. But combat pilots -- if trained exactly like men -- are fine.

I never said women should not be in the military. Hellfire, the WASPs <-- Lady plane delivery pilots were fantastic. And extremely important in that each lady that volunteered to be a pilot for this work freed up a common guy to go get his head blown off in the fighter plane she delivered.

When you've dug yourself into a hole, just dig the hole deeper.....

 

[joeb631a]

Wow ,glad I worked today !

 

[Unca Walt]

sometimes “wow“ is just the best reply for me. Maybe this time I should too.

It must bother you then that there are already women standing duty on submarines under the sea this very minute managing critical submarine systems under way ready to push the red button to defend our country on US submarines worked on by qualified women mechanics and inspected and certified by qualified women quality assurance representatives huh?

Yes, it does.

 

[Unca Walt]

When you've dug yourself into a hole, just dig the hole deeper.....

My "hole" has naval factual data available for checking. I note that critical, vital point about total failure of women to pass the critical pump-carry naval requirement to put to sea has been ignored. Deal with it, please.

My "hole" does not seem to have more than a dozen pregnant young women on board a warship. <-- Tell me, social justice warriors... what does that do for readiness of a warship? Tell me, social justice warriors... what does that do for having SIXTEEN PERCENT of female assigned sailors having to be replaced?

This is not "theory" or "justice" or "equality" it happens to be some-fargin-thing called "reality". Reality. Say it.

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New statistics obtained from the U.S. Navy by The Daily Caller -- which had to sue under the Freedom of Information Act to get them -- reveal that 16 of 100 women afloat in 2016 were reassigned from ships to shore duty due to pregnancy.
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My "hole" does not include endangering and weakening our armed forces and our materiel (ships, planes, wounded sojers) by playing social games.

This is the result of social engineering -- cutting corners to ensure a pilot gets her wings:

She did the thing UNtrained carrier pilots are trained out of by simulated carrier landings on shore. She hard-hammered the final approach and starved one engine out of use. She died for "social progress"

I adore women. I loathe social constructs that cause death of others or the ones being used for social constucts for idiocy like the impossible nonsense touted in the "classic" "G.I. Jane" <-- Anyone who knows what it actually takes to become a SEAL would totally agree with me.

All GI's (when I was in, back before social equality programs changed things) had to do 100 six-count pushups. Upper body construction forbids this concept for a woman.

No woman of normal human construction can carry a "Pig" and ammo along with all other necessary supplies on a 6-day vertical/river crossing/rice paddy hump in the jungle. <-- Anybody disagree? Right.

My "hole" was occupied by myself and a guy at my back. I would have preferred a woman... but only if I was in Virginia at the time, not "in the real "grass".

 

[joeb631a]

"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day. . . . I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors." Thomas Jefferson - June 11, 1807 Principal author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the United States from 1801 to 1809 Good Morning !

 

[RosterMan]

"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day. . . . I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors." Thomas Jefferson - June 11, 1807 Principal author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the United States from 1801 to 1809 Good Morning !

And he was studying to be an Electrician.............................................

 

[RosterMan]

My "hole" has naval factual data available for checking. I note that critical, vital point about total failure of women to pass the critical pump-carry naval requirement to put to sea has been ignored. Deal with it, please.

My "hole" does not seem to have more than a dozen pregnant young women on board a warship. <-- Tell me, social justice warriors... what does that do for readiness of a warship? Tell me, social justice warriors... what does that do for having SIXTEEN PERCENT of female assigned sailors having to be replaced?

This is not "theory" or "justice" or "equality" it happens to be some-fargin-thing called "reality". Reality. Say it.

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New statistics obtained from the U.S. Navy by The Daily Caller -- which had to sue under the Freedom of Information Act to get them -- reveal that 16 of 100 women afloat in 2016 were reassigned from ships to shore duty due to pregnancy.
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My "hole" does not include endangering and weakening our armed forces and our materiel (ships, planes, wounded sojers) by playing social games.

This is the result of social engineering -- cutting corners to ensure a pilot gets her wings:
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She did the thing UNtrained carrier pilots are trained out of by simulated carrier landings on shore. She hard-hammered the final approach and starved one engine out of use. She died for "social progress"

I adore women. I loathe social constructs that cause death of others or the ones being used for social constucts for idiocy like the impossible nonsense touted in the "classic" "G.I. Jane" <-- Anyone who knows what it actually takes to become a SEAL would totally agree with me.

All GI's (when I was in, back before social equality programs changed things) had to do 100 six-count pushups. Upper body construction forbids this concept for a woman.

No woman of normal human construction can carry a "Pig" and ammo along with all other necessary supplies on a 6-day vertical/river crossing/rice paddy hump in the jungle. <-- Anybody disagree? Right.

My "hole" was occupied by myself and a guy at my back. I would have preferred a woman... but only if I was in Virginia at the time, not "in the real "grass".

 

[joeb631a]

And he was studying to be an Electrician.............................................

LOL That Man had a whole lot more important things to do Brother . The people who we are infected with do not deserve what that Man did ...