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@Itsfine said:

@Amos_Umwhat said:

@Itsfine said:

Asking because I don't remember, but didn't we criticize the hell out of Clinton and or Obama for going to one sermon by one pastor or a few sermons from a few pastors that the other side found unsavory? "He's a racist" seemed to be a rallying cry. I guess misogyny is okay though I digress.

I don't remember anything about Bill Clinton's church habits except that he supposedly attended one in D.C. pretty regularly with the wife and daughter. I do remember the Obamas regularly attended a church where the pastor stood behind the pulpit and ranted "God bless America? NO!! GOD DAMN AMERICA!!!" That was a pretty big deal for a while. I don't remember anything about Obama being a racist connected with that. For me, I don't hold BarryO responsible for what came out of the pulpit.

I don' know why you think misogyny is OK, but that's for you to decide. (Troll line put in place for Pete). Just messing around.

My reading of that denomination's policy was not that a woman must be a widow, in fact I think that they said that if she were the functional head of household and the man wasn't, then the responsiblilty fell to the woman. Whatever, they claimed that Pete only attended a few times. It's not like he was a deacon or anything.

I can't argue about Hegseth's qualifications, or lack thereof. I'd never heard of him, and I mistakenly assumed him to be regular army when I learned of his rank etc. Did he come from FOX News? Some other such organization? I haven't watched any of those in 15 or 20 years, just pick up bits and pieces from Yahoo or Apple or You Tube videos that people send me, so, I wasn't familiar with him at all. His gaffe with including the journalist from The Atlantic was a big no-no, I kind of thought he'd be out after that.

I can also see your points about some of the Senior officers, although that kind of thing isn't all that unusual. I can tell you that I was very disappointed back when General Mattis left the office. I always thought of him as the real deal, possessing intelligence, guts, and integrity. The total package. Those others? Well, I'm a long way off these days.

Finally, your remark about having a competent female rather than a reluctant male resonates strongly with me. When I went to PLDC, Primary Leadership Development Course, a month long course for NCO's, in case anyone doesn't know, I had been in "the field" for 150 days. I hadn't had a day off, or more than 4 hours sleep for that entire time. PLDC is a month, and while Tankers usually went to Bad Tolz, which had a reputation for being Basic Training redux, I ended up in Augsburg, which was a co-ed course, very different environment for me.

So, along with the luxury of sleeping in an actual bed I got to sleep for almost 8 hours. Getting to the point of the story, I was the Platoon Sergeant during our field week at school where we were to do all kinds of Infantry stuff. Lot's of fun, really. But, when it came time for the combat exercises I was told to leave two guards at the assembly area. I picked two of the guys who were the closest things to combat arms, one of them might have been Infantry, come to think of it, and they immediately began protesting. My four female soldiers were already glaring at me wondering which two of them it would be.

"What? Why aren't you leaving a couple of those girls?" came the protest. "No way". I said, "They need to play Army more than any of you guys. I don't care if they're quartermaster or whatever, this is their chance to at least simulate a combat environment, and they will be coming to do so, and I will be putting them in the most combat oriented positions and assignments while we're on this exercise."

That didn't go over well with some of the guys, but I told them I didn't care. Know what? Those women were awesome. They thanked me when it was over, too.

At any rate, too long didn't read will be the most likely response I get to this post, but, know what? I don't care.