08-01-2020, 07:14 AM
(08-01-2020, 05:13 AM)Ninurta Wrote:(07-30-2020, 10:49 PM)guohua Wrote: Hi, Mr. G. here, I knew of two in our Infantry Platoon in Vietnam in 1969.
One was our radio man, carried a PRC-77 and it had to weigh 20 or 30 pounds with the big ass battery and then the extra battery and antenas.
He carried that thru the Jungle and slept with the hand mic on his ear encase Battalion called or @"727Sky" needed an LZ cleared.
The other gay guy was one of our assistant M-60 Gunner and he carried the Heavy ass Tripod and a M-79 with Phishet and HE rounds.
Would not have known, except myself, those two and my best friend went on R&R at Pattaya Beach in Thailand and they were inseparable day and night, especially night.
That was okay, a shock at first but we just didn't care, these two guys were very dependable when contact was made or in an abush setting just as good or better than most I served with.
The problem today I think is they've been programed to think of themselves as Victims and are owed special privileges.
The gays of my day in the Military didn't Flaunt their gayness or demand to be treated special, they did their job and no one cared so much.
JMHO
And that is as it should be. They don't need to tell, I ain't gonna ask. No one cares. Just do your damned job - no one gives a shit where you choose to park your pecker as long as it's not in their wife.
I can see transgenders being a little more problematic, though - where would you assign them? Which ratings systems would they have to follow for PE - male or female? It has the potential to just get way too confusing, for both them and the military, and especially the soldiers who have to work and tiptoe around them.
A gay man is still a man, so you know where to assign him, and what PE standards he has to adhere to. Same for a gay woman - she's still a woman. Trans is a whole new dimension, a whole new can of worms with no straight answers - no pun intended. The military likes straight answers, and solid structure.
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Right, That is correct, I mean when we had gay men in the Infantry with us, they kept to themselves and didn't do any limp wrist stuff, they were Tough as Nails
I can not say anything about the women in the Military at that time who were gay, but I'm sure they served just as Bravely and Died Just As We Did.
You know, a man will cry for his Mother and Father when he's hit bad and his buddies will cry with him as he dies out there in a fire fight or in a the bug infested jungle that doesn't make him or his buddies any less of a man or woman.
I didn't work with Females there and I'm sure they did their Damn Job and Died the same as everyone else.
That is how it should be.
You are what you are, don't use chemicals to change that, well at least not in the Military, that is how I think about this Gender Binding Crap!
*handing keyboard back to the boss*
Once A Rogue, Always A Rogue!