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2007-06-06 -Short Attention Span Theater-

PC brigade ban pin-ups on RAF jets - in case they offend women and Muslims

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Posted by tu3031 2007-06-06 11:22|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Anybody remembers the name of, I think, an American general who said "If they won't f*ck, they won't fight."?

Posted by gromgoru 2007-06-06 11:32|| 2007-06-06 11:32|| Front Page Top

#2 When we got jackasses like that running the show, we've lost.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-06-06 11:36|| 2007-06-06 11:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Muslims Offended. British Ban Air Support From Warthogs.

Posted by NY Times 2007-06-06 11:49|| 2007-06-06 11:49|| Front Page Top

#4 "Burqa Babe, you are cleared for takeoff"

Posted by Grunter 2007-06-06 12:01|| 2007-06-06 12:01|| Front Page Top

#5 If the jets are doing their job right, those pin-up babe insignias won't offend any Muslims for very long.

Conservative MP Phillip Davies said: "Has the MoD really got nothing better to worry about at a time when there are serious concerns over equipment and resources available to our forces in Iraq and Afghanistan?"

A cry in the wilderness.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-06 12:50|| 2007-06-06 12:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Does that mean the female pilots will have to get rid of their Playgirl art, too? Perhaps the RAF planes can simply be turned into Jingle Trucks, which have a long and proud tradition in Afghanistan... not to mention their own version of girlie art.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-06 12:57|| 2007-06-06 12:57|| Front Page Top

#7 It ain't just the RAF: in 1988, following the NIMITZ fire, we were in work getting our replacement KA-6D (from VA-52, IIRC) ready to go (The original Boomer tanker was a victim of the fire and was pushed over the side) and we had two of the resident artists do up the nose ( and the Intruder definitely has a nose). long story short: crew loved it, blackshoes loved it, Boat CO saw it and told us it was not going anywhere until that sh!t was gone. (He was an old A-7 driver and was jealous of us all weather medium attack boys). we had the last taugh: at the end of the cruise we painted all the Corsair tires pink.

Posted by USN. Ret. 2007-06-06 14:26|| 2007-06-06 14:26|| Front Page Top

#8 I think it would be profoundly good for troop morale that if it was at all possible to identify anyone and everyone who had anything to do with that MoD policy, that they should be on the next plane out to Afghanistan, on a multi-year assignment.

It would do marvels to bureaucratic morale, as it were.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-06-06 16:35|| 2007-06-06 16:35|| Front Page Top

#9 There are always dumbass jerk-offs in charge of every war. I say we send them in the first wave. It gets rid of the jerks and reveals enemy AA positions.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-06-06 17:18|| 2007-06-06 17:18|| Front Page Top

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