Everyone gets a participation ribbon, 1953 vs. today, join the empire, gone to the BDSM dogs, so gayyy in the Navy, and more woke military memes as we celebrate Veterans Day!
I don't doubt service members are getting fat but there are possible problems with BMI. very fit /muscular persons usually fall on the overweight scale on BMI.
Correct; the average NFL running back has a BMI of 31, classifying him as "obese". None of them have ever been anywhere near obese. Some steroid-pumped bodybuilders with 4% body fat qualify as "morbidly obese" by BMI. But these muscular exceptions are just that: exceptions. Some very fit soldiers might also be. But as some of these memes imply, there are many soldiers who are not muscular exceptions and should indeed heed their BMI.
specially if you keep lowering the numbers. They got down quite a bit since I was a teenager.
I never understood women that want to join the army, I must be old fashioned. Unless you are a nurse, doctor, or typist. But for active duty, I think it should be forbidden. A woman belongs with her children. I remember that Native girl who died some years ago, she had 2 kids at home. Yes the army provides for the kids, but surely she should have stayed home with them. Women IMO are not equipped for active duty.
In times of real war, when we have been attacked, such as WWII, I can see why women would want to be "Rosie the Riveter" or have a desk job in the military (many were available), but under no circumstances (IMHO) would a sane woman want to be a soldier. Unfortunately, not all women are sane.
thanks. I already thought I was the crazy one LOL. (sometimes I probably am) I have known several who served during WW2, one was a decoder and one a radio operator, and probably several women served as nurses or aides. But in combat! that is man's business!
I remember when the whole "women in combat" issue was raised, I thought that was the stupidest idea I ever heard. Unfortunately, they have come up with some even stupider ideas since then.
yes. I noticed one of the stupidest ideas being called a high title. a man in women's clothes. and then they wonder why no new recrutes are signing on.
I think she was mostly a symbolic (fictitious) character (there were various posters over the years), but some were based on real women who were not actually riveters. But I'm sure that at least one of them was a riveter who quit after a few days.
I wasn't implying the campaign was being deceptive (it was just wartime propaganda after all), although having feminists later adopt the poster is cringe.
The female factory workers of WW2 were very hard working and down to Earth. Most feminists have never done any manual labour in their lives.
Absolutely; she represented women who built planes, Jeeps, tanks, machine guns, etc. while their husbands/boyfriends were off risking their lives using them. And those fine women had little in common with today's unfeminine, entitled feminists.
I don't doubt service members are getting fat but there are possible problems with BMI. very fit /muscular persons usually fall on the overweight scale on BMI.
Correct; the average NFL running back has a BMI of 31, classifying him as "obese". None of them have ever been anywhere near obese. Some steroid-pumped bodybuilders with 4% body fat qualify as "morbidly obese" by BMI. But these muscular exceptions are just that: exceptions. Some very fit soldiers might also be. But as some of these memes imply, there are many soldiers who are not muscular exceptions and should indeed heed their BMI.
specially if you keep lowering the numbers. They got down quite a bit since I was a teenager.
I never understood women that want to join the army, I must be old fashioned. Unless you are a nurse, doctor, or typist. But for active duty, I think it should be forbidden. A woman belongs with her children. I remember that Native girl who died some years ago, she had 2 kids at home. Yes the army provides for the kids, but surely she should have stayed home with them. Women IMO are not equipped for active duty.
In times of real war, when we have been attacked, such as WWII, I can see why women would want to be "Rosie the Riveter" or have a desk job in the military (many were available), but under no circumstances (IMHO) would a sane woman want to be a soldier. Unfortunately, not all women are sane.
thanks. I already thought I was the crazy one LOL. (sometimes I probably am) I have known several who served during WW2, one was a decoder and one a radio operator, and probably several women served as nurses or aides. But in combat! that is man's business!
I remember when the whole "women in combat" issue was raised, I thought that was the stupidest idea I ever heard. Unfortunately, they have come up with some even stupider ideas since then.
yes. I noticed one of the stupidest ideas being called a high title. a man in women's clothes. and then they wonder why no new recrutes are signing on.
Also because they no longer defend our freedom. If they wanted to defend our freedom, they would not obey DC; they would attack it.
FUN FACT: Rosie the riveter quit after a few days. I believe she was actually a cellist.
I thought she was just a symbol.
I think she was mostly a symbolic (fictitious) character (there were various posters over the years), but some were based on real women who were not actually riveters. But I'm sure that at least one of them was a riveter who quit after a few days.
I wasn't implying the campaign was being deceptive (it was just wartime propaganda after all), although having feminists later adopt the poster is cringe.
The female factory workers of WW2 were very hard working and down to Earth. Most feminists have never done any manual labour in their lives.
Absolutely; she represented women who built planes, Jeeps, tanks, machine guns, etc. while their husbands/boyfriends were off risking their lives using them. And those fine women had little in common with today's unfeminine, entitled feminists.
Makes me want to learn Chinese.