Given the kerfuffle and angst among you over DoD's decision to transfer Manning to the Federal system for transgendering support, and Secretary Hagel's intended review of rules and regulations regarding the service of transgendered troops, where he asserted "every qualified American who wants to serve our country should have an opportunity if they fit the qualifications and can do it" I believe we need *yet* another review.
Why can't the disabled and fat serve if they want to? It's their right, according to the Secretary.
Why can't a 400lbs gaming god in a wheelchair pilot a drone from a hangar in Las Vegas? Those pilots never deploy. Why then should we insist they look fit and trim and be able to amble around a track and have good aerobic health?
Seriously. Isn't the only relevant qualification a desire to serve and an ability to fly what amounts to a flightsim?
And if they die in harness before reaching retirement eligibility how is that anything other than a win for the budget?
C'mon - in a time of budget austerity, this is a proposal who's time has come.
We're going through the drill of having to justify every female-excluded position for it's abuse of male muscular privilege, we should do the same regarding the disabled.
Typed totally without tongue-in-cheek.
Read the complete post at http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2014/05/a_modest_propos_1.html
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May 14 2014, 12:56 PM
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