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| Gen. Helms and the Senator's 'Hold' |
| 2013-06-19 |
| h/t Istapundit Lt. Gen. Susan Helms is a pioneering woman who finds her career stalled because of a war on men—a political campaign against sexual assault in the military that shows signs of becoming an effort to criminalize male sexuality. Gen. Helms is a 1980 graduate of the Air Force Academy who became an astronaut in 1990. She was a crewman on four space-shuttle missions and a passenger on two, traveling to the International Space Station and back 5½ months later. Two days after arriving at the station in 2001, she, along with fellow astronaut Jim Voss, conducted history's longest spacewalk—8 hours, 56 minutes—to work on a docking device. In March, President Obama nominated Gen. Helms to serve as vice commander of the Air Force Space Command. But Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat who sits on the Armed Services Committee, has placed a "permanent hold" on the nomination. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #4 Kinetic actions don't require muscle mass. |
| Posted by: Sum Dum Guy 2013-06-19 10:10 |
| #3 B, didn't you hear? The war is over, has changed and operators no longer have do do hand to hand combat. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2013-06-19 10:03 |
| #2 The integration of the separate women's service corps begun in the 1970's. along with the advancement of the LGBT agenda continues to enjoy great success. [sarc off] Soon we may have female Special Operators who [due to size and muscle mass] will be physically incapable of surviving hand-to-hand combat with enemy combatants. Not to mention a number of other, less life threatening tasks. The insanity continues. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-06-19 07:29 |
| #1 Call it "the Todd Akin dividend..." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2013-06-19 07:28 |