{"id":33784,"date":"2013-01-24T09:33:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T13:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33784"},"modified":"2013-01-24T09:33:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T13:33:01","slug":"tah-on-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33784","title":{"rendered":"TAH on CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Almasy from CNN emailed last night for an interview about Women in Combat. Unfortunately, it was after my bedtime so I missed his email until this mroning. It looks like he just took some quotes from the blog<\/a> for his article today;<\/p>\n

Jonn Lilyea, one of the founders of the military blog “This Ain’t Hell,” wrote that he thinks it was an “ill-considered decision.”<\/p>\n

Lilyea, a former sergeant who fought in Desert Storm, wrote that he is opposed to women in combat units, not because women are a distraction but because he thinks the Army and other services will be required to accept more women than are qualified or can be trained.<\/p>\n

“If we’re doing this to make the military better, fine, but if we’re doing it just to beat our collective chest and show how just we are, then that’s how a lot of body bags are going to get filled,” he wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, my quotes were embedded in the article between Tammy Duckworth and Kayla Williams, two of the VoteVets alumni. Neither are in uniform. I asked one of my Facebook friends who is also a VoteVets alum if she was going to reenlist now, and she never responded. I noticed the newsies are all getting quotes from women who won’t be serving in combat arms units. I don’t see them asking women who are currently serving any questions – women who potentially might be forced into those combat arms units if the social scientists don’t see the numbers they want to see.<\/p>\n

I think that’s where the story is, not with us old washed up former soldiers who aren’t going to have this policy forced down our throats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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