Golly. Why indeed? It’s only the world’s most intense occupation, requiring a huge level of strength to carry weapons, communication gear, other equipment, food, water, and ammo through rough terrain and foliage, in severe climates, for days on end. Just why would you want a guy with 30 or 40 extra pounds of muscle on…

It’s neat how you suggest your amateur conjecture about small stature and feminine intel gathering negates known deficiencies in strength that negatively impact combat and firefighting jobs.

Better lower body strength? In what way? Heavier squats? Higher vertical jump? Faster sprints? Longer endurance runs? Greater load-bearing capacity on long marches?

If they are, they appear to have an uncharacteristic chink in their armor where negative opinions about their capabilities are concerned.

I began my aviation training in 1991, a time when women were just being allowed to fly Navy fighters. I knew and flew with Kara Hultgreen at Miramar.

Whatever one’s political affiliation, wearing the flag is disrespectful and prohibited by the US flag code.

1) Think those guns might get spread around, were a civ v. gov situation develop in earnest?

1. The barriers to carrying a gun are not insubstantial. One must usually buy a full day’s worth of training at the cost of about $150, pay to get fingerprinted at a private facility for $30, fill out paperwork, pay a state fee of around $100, and wait at least several weeks for approval and the production of the…

I’m afraid you are mistaken about the ability of an armed citizenry to resist a standing army. The armed forces of the United States is about 2.25 million personnel, not nearly all combat troops. Law enforcement in the USA is about 1.25 million personnel, not nearly all duty officers. Compared to the 300 million…

Well, it’s about time. I loved him in T.J. Hooker.

You’re mixing your metaphors.

You’re soooo wrong. What jet did you fly in the fleet?

Just for clarification, AOA is measured in “units” of AOA, which do not directly correlate to degrees of nose up attitude.

To further clarify:

Actually, E-2s are in very good shape if they bolter: their big, straight, low-wing-loaded wings and turboprop engines really dig into the thick air at sea level. So, when necessary, they climb away nicely. Now, if they do go in the water, their crews are SOL, lacking ejection seats and occupying a cramped tube that’s…

It’s not just gravity holding a heavy hook down; the hook is pneumatically driven down and pressurized there via a nitrogen charge (at least it was in the Tomcat), to prevent hook skips. They still happened, though.

It’s as simple as it looks: the wheels roll over the wires; the hook catches them.

Also, her go-to move is the arm bar, which works because she is considerably stronger than most other women. She is not stronger than Mayweather. One almost never sees the arm bar as the winning submission in evenly-matched MMA fights.

Seems akin to victim blaming, holding Geller responsible for the INSANE response of the jihadists to a cartoon contest of shooting up the joint.

I find the fact that the victim has been given a complete pass on starting the physical altercation interesting. Did she deserve to be given a concussion? No. Did her violent action warrant a physical response? Yes.