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Malignant Narcissist
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One of my female interrogators was asked by the BC how she handled being deployed "during that time". She told him she just "drip-dried and drove the fuck on". We called her "DD" (for "drip Dry") from then on!
 Do you listen to yourself when you talk; or do you just fade in and out?
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Cherry
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Last Login: 10/15/2007 8:54 PM
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| This females in combat units crapola is not only old news, it is ANCIENT NEWS! There have been Airborne females serving in the herd for a long time now, but that is also old news. There are females driving in convoys on a regular basis and they are defending and dying from IEDs just like their male counterparts up in Iraq. Female pilots regularly go in for dust-off missions, while under fire, and nobody seems to make a big deal of this, either. Female Marine pilots are delivering jarheads to their operations, too! So why make a big deal of this 1SG of a support company element of the 173rd? It doesn't matter if the Soldier is a grunt (many are NOT grunts, but arty and other MOS's given a shake and bake MP course before deploying!)on foot patrol or roadblock duty...or a female mail clerk in a hummer carrying mail to some forward unit, because when they get blasted they all bleed the same! This is the reality of the kind of war we are fighting over there, so face it! I was in Vicenza in the 509th back in 1974-75 time frame, when the first female rigger plt leader arrived, along with two female junior enlisted riggers at CSC up at Verona. These females were graduated from like the second and third jump school classes to have females graduate, but after they finished rigger school (about the only specialty open to female airborne-qualified back in those days), nobody wanted them. The 82nd flatly refused to take them. But the 509th was so short-handed in that time-frame,with its personnel strength averaging about 60-70% of authorization, that its commander said "send them over here, we need riggers." So they came over, three of them at first. No matter what else these female paratroopers were, they were damned good riggers! They worked their arses off keeping things squared away! Ever since the 509th had moved to Vicenza from Mainz in 1973, with its new Delta Bty arriving a few weeks later, there had been a problem getting consistent good drops for the old M102 105mm howitzer for Delta Bty, and it seemed that every time there was an equipment drop, one or more of Delta's M102's would land on its tube instead of the way it was supposed to land! This bad drop normally wrecked the piece and another one had to be procured. The M102 had, up to that time, a lousy record for surviving para drops, ARMY-WIDE! Well, these new female riggers put their heads together with some of the other riggers in the 509th and figured out to rig the M102 howitzers so that they would air drop CONSISTENTLY with no damage! Here is the clincher: When the 82nd found out that our riggers had solved the para-drop problems for the M102's, they sent a team of riggers to learn how it was being done, and it was the SAME female riggers which the 82nd had flat turned down who gave the instruction on rigging the M102's to that rigger team from the 82nd! What goes around comes around!
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