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DigitalFulcrum 1 point ago +1 / -0

It's too easy to look at anyone in uniform and just picture them as some sort of combatant a rifle or operating some sort of vehicle with a gun on it. Not seeing the others in uniform that contribute to the hours it takes to get a aircraft ready to fly or the prep work and planning it takes to get 1000 troops out to a different country.

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DigitalFulcrum 2 points ago +2 / -0

I honestly think Carlson dropped the ball on his calling out for maternity fight suits. My coworker is going through this right now. Once she became pregnant she is practically grounded, she won't be deployed anytime soon but can still get training or teaching time in. She can still go on simulators and has to get a waiver for flying but only through so many weeks of being pregnant, and it's up to the end of the second trimester, after that no more flying. Pilots still wear their flight suits as part of a daily uniform requirement and women needed a maternity version of it badly. This is coming from the perspective for those that fly heavy aircraft, I wouldn't be surprised if the rules were even more strict for fighters. I am not a pilot but work close to a few of them. Hopefully I at least put some perspective on this particular case.