Comments on: Wokeness and military recruitment

By: Molly Brown

Molly Brown — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 01:52:43 +0000

I quit smoking over 33 years ago.
Cold turkey on a bet. Turned out it was my mother’s birthday. Happy Birthday Mom!
Had my second child and started running 5 years later.
As much as I miss cigarettes (and I do!*) since becoming even the light recreational runner that I am, I would no more light up a cigarette than slit my wrists. I just couldn’t do that to my lungs now that I can feel them working.
I can’t imagine any serious runner smoking.
Sorry, not buying it.
*Shaking one out of the pack, lighting up, inhaling, blowing smoke, waving my hand in the air to punctuate a statement, crushing one out in an ashtray… Keeping off the last 5 lbs… Why oh why do they have to be bad for us?

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 23:03:54 +0000

om,

I agree with you. Everyone I know who is serious enough about distance running to regularly enter races and try to be competitive in their age* group are on the fanatic side of the bell curve about their health (I’m not one of them). They look at things like eating dessert or drinking a non “Ultra” beer as akin to injecting poison. I can’t imagine any of them choosing to be daily smokers. Maybe a cigar once or twice a year, but daily?

*When young many of us paid little attention to diet and lifestyle, and that’s likely still the same with many young runners these days, but I can’t imagine a serious, even semi-serious runner over the age of 30 who smokes. What’s the point? Why spend all that time training and watching what you eat to limit your lung capacity with cigarettes?

By: Outlier

Outlier — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 20:09:15 +0000

Jack Bergman achieved the highest military rank of any graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College. A few years back after he’d been elected to congress the alumni magazine did an article on him but never mentioned that he’s a Republican.

By: om

om — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 16:15:51 +0000

On vaping and smoking:

Generally speaking the race organizers decide what the maximum allowed time for participants (when they close the course and roll things up). There are time standards for ceeded participants and typically for runners to self select what pace cohort they are in.

A smoker or vaper probably isn’t running a sub 3 hour marathon.

Apples and oranges, minimum qualification standard for military personnel vs recreational runners who finish whenever, IMO.

By: LTEC

LTEC — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:50:58 +0000

“13% say they believe that women and minorities will face discrimination and not get the same opportunities.”

Perhaps this is BECAUSE of all the woke, dei stuff. When promoting all this dei stuff, the military is saying that there are serious problems in the military with the treatment of women and minorities, and that these problems have to be addressed.

By: Sgt. Mom

Sgt. Mom — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 14:55:16 +0000

It may be significant, or it may not … but something might be going on, within the military. My daughter says that all the various mil-meme pages kept up by active-duty troops that she follows have all gone radio-silent in the last fifteen or twenty hours.
Don’t know what – but something may be going on.

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 13:00:03 +0000

They regard the military and the police as their adversary if they cannot destroy it they corrupt it

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 12:39:22 +0000

Any one know what’s up with the coast guard ? Grandson has shown some interest .

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 12:38:54 +0000

Indeed

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/27/the-easiest-way-to-derail-europes-green-plan-for-america-is-to-stop-us-funding-for-ukraine/

By: om

om — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 12:08:07 +0000

Frederick chimes in with his own reality about Russia winning in Ukraine. Time will tell.

Off the rails, just like that. And of course the dread Neocon pirates.

More globetrotters please.