Love Myself More Than You
For those of you who don’t know, Kayla Williams is one of the front page authors at VoteVets VetVoice blog. She was a soldier and wrote a book entitled “Love My Rifle More Than You” about her experiences in the Army and Iraq.
I’d hinted that I was looking into Williams background in a post over a year ago (I wasn’t really, I just wanted to shake the bushes and see what fell out), but a couple of good friends warned me away from her because of some problem she had in regards to her civilian life. So anyway, I figured after several months of letting the subject cool down, I’d better look into this chick because she was so worried about me and my famous skill. I guessed that the best place to start is this book. Everyone was giving it rave reviews and praising Williams for her honesty – so what could it hurt, right?
Well, I’ll tell you right up front that I couldn’t finish the book. It’s been sitting on my nightstand for three months haunting me after I spent another three months trying to slug my way through the book. Finally, last night I decided that the book is such a piece of shit, if it has any redeeming value in the last half, it’s not worth shoveling through the shit in the first half.
It’s clear to me that Kayla Williams thinks very highly of herself – especially her tits, which get mentioned very often as well as her mind-numbing descriptions of her love life and, oh, how much the guys love her tits. Now we’ve never met, but I’ve seen pictures of Kayla Williams (you can Google her name and see the pictures yourself) and I’ll admit she’s not plain, but she’s not what I’d put in my “knock-out” category either, but it’s obvious from reading the book, she thinks she is definitely on the top of the heap.
The book begins with her pot-smoking father and her stereo-typical Republican Victorian Age mother and the conflicts she faced in that relationship. One thing I’ve learned being a middle-aged man is that you’re only a victim of your parents if you want to be, and Kayla seemed bound and determined to make her parents the excuse for her bad behavior.
After shacking up with several guys through college, she then joins the Army and complains that guys are always hitting on her. No shit? She’s laying out this tramp image in the book, I can only imagine what she talked about with her fellow soldiers. Now, I’ll admit that I’ve worked with very few women in my career, but I never hit on them and I tend to believe that most of the men in the Army are the same way. But, Williams seems determined to prove that all men are pigs – so we get all of these stories of guys hitting on her within the first moments of meeting her.
Holy shit, if I’m reading a book about war, I don’t want to read about how her roommate’s ass and Williams’ tits combined in a single female form would make a perfect woman.
In addition she was a soup sandwich as a soldier. You know how combat arms troops are always saying that pogues cry about the sand in their pussy? This bint actually whines in her book about having sand in her pussy. I don’t mean to be profane, but holy shit, how cliche can you get?
And then there was a dust-up between Williams and a female sergeant, SSG Moss, Williams thought her squad leader was a buffoon. OK, most of us do, but apparently, women deal with this with little fits and getting into a snit. Williams wouldn’t obey her squad leader without a sneer, or little display of anger, or a smart alecky comment. So SSG Moss finally breaks down and cries – a staff sergeant in the US Army cries because a subordinate is mean to her. This isn’t a book about war, it’s pilot episode of another bad Lifetime Channel series for women. There wasn’t even a hot lesbian story about them making up. WTH?
So, do you see the pattern here? Everyone in the Army is screwed up…except Kayla Williams. All of the men and anyone else who happens to be in charge of Kayla Williams. See, that’s the problem when a private writes a book about the military – privates only see the little picture right in front of their goofy faces, they can’t see why the decisions are being made, so they make everyone look like idiots because the leaders don’t make the decisions that Joe thinks are the proper decisions. I guess they think privates should be in charge.
I apologize for not finishing the book for you – but hardly any of you pay me money, and I’m not reading the rest of this piece of shit. Besides, nothing pisses me off more than listening to privates whining and in this case, I paid to read a private whining almost endlessly.
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I’m completely underwhelmed by her looks and her views. Personally, she couldn’t hold a candle to the fine ladies that hang around here and B5.
I looked her up and I gotta agree with OT, she damned sure ain’t all that and a bag of chips. Regarding her thought provoking book, she was a REMF, whatever.
I am reminded how blessed I was to be a grunt.
I guess you could call her an “Iraq 10” which is an expression I had overheard at the FOB
Jonn,
Can you get your money back?
Or take it to the range for some target practice.
I’d say she’s a Desert 10 (IYKWIMAITYD).
I never finished the book either. I was enamored enough by seeing she had written one to make it halfway through, though. She was part of 3rd Brigade 101st back in 2003 and I’ve already shared my story of disturbing her peaceful dinner and a book in a crowded KBR tent at Tallafar.
I’ll have to pick up the book again one day. Reading it as a junior E-5 who had last seen her a year or so earlier at Fort Campbell it felt nice just to see a book written by someone familiar. I’m sure that after five years of dealing with Soldiers of all types I’ll have a much different perspective.
“…I’ll admit she’s not plain, but she’s not what I’d put in my ‘knock-out’ category either, but it’s obvious from reading the book, she thinks she is definitely on the top of the heap.”
Army chicks always think they’re hot, no matter how far that is from the truth. It’s pretty rare indeed to meet a truly good looking Army female.
Even so, I can sort of imagine her getting hit on left and right. When fifteen percent of the invading force is female, guys tend to go wild for whatever’s there. That’s what gives these not-so-good-looking females the illusion that they’re actually hot.
I’ve seen her book at book stores a thousand times and never wanted to pick it up. Now that I know that she’s with VoteVets, I want to read it even less.
I’ve had very cordial discussions with her on Facebook, but from the reviews she sounds a little wacky. Well, a lot wacky. I’m not sure I grasp exactly what the point of the book is.
I haven’t read the book. I’m skeptical though, just googling for reviews:
“With her Buddhist and Celtic tattoos, a literature degree, drug-taking teenage years and penchant for punk music, Kayla Williams was never going to be your typical “grunt”‘
Aside from the literature degree, at least one of those characteristics applies to about 40% of grunts (I’m using Matthis-ian statistics here). And she was never going to be a grunt period, you fucking moron.
“Her prose is uncompromising. ‘Sex is the key to any woman soldier’s experiences in the American military,'”
Oh yay. Just what we need; more broad brushes.
“Elsewhere she writes: ‘I love my M4 [light machine gun], the smell of it, of cleaning fluid, of gunpowder: the smell of strength'”
I’m apt not to trust the judgment of any reviewer who can’t take 10 seconds to read a shitty Wikipedia entry and discern that an M4 is certainly not a “light machine gun.”
(To the interviewer): “I was empowered by the military, physically and mentally, and I’m a stronger person for my time there.”
Let’s hope it’s reflected in the book. Don’t need another Lynda Van Devanter.
One of the best books I ever read was “A Kinder, Gentler, Military”. It’s about women in the armed forces. I think the author (a woman) really nailed it.
I was never quite sure that the whole “sand in your vagina” thing was based on fact. I mean, I’d spent a lot of time at the beach and never heard a female talking about it.
So I learned something today.
I have yet to find anything worth reading, written by a female soldier. Most of what I’ve seen is self-centered, man-hating, inaccurate, soriority-sister mentality drivel. If you can recommend anything of a sober, intelligent nature, I would greatly appreciate it.
“With her Buddhist and Celtic tattoos, a literature degree, drug-taking teenage years and penchant for punk music, Kayla Williams was never going to be your typical “grunt”
This is a typical quote written by someone who hasn’t spent much time around the military. Granted I fit most of the description above. I don’t have Celtic tattoos, but I do have a Hindu tattoo among my many. I have a degree in Philosophy and I had a history of smoking weed and listening to punk music.
People like that have little idea of what the military is like other than their own prejudiced opinions.
We used to call them FOB Queens. Reality was a bitch when they got back to the world.
I read it for you. I want my time and $$ back. She is a sniveling whiner whose tone never changes. If I’d been her SSG, I’d have had her sent back, charged with something – insubordination, behavior contrary to order and discipline. Anything! Troublemakers like her wreck a good team dynamic.
Ten young soldiers worked for me, and she’d have ruined them. By the way, I am female.
There are names for chicks like her. Barracks whore for stateside and a ton of them for deployment (we used FOB F@$ks, Desert Bunnies, and many others that I can’t think of off the top of my head).
They all share some things in common. They are being used for sex and sex alone. They are on that border line of attractive and they put themselves out there. You never have to try and hook up with them, they just pass from room to room. They tend to drink heavily and do drugs. And not a one is worth a shit as a soldier.
And just think, by this time next year, FOB Queen will have a completly different meaning.
I was given a copy of the book back when I worked at XM. I still want my money back.
Are there any good sex scenes where she gets nice and graphic and/or kinky in there? If not, screw it.
Want to read a book from a female Iraq Vet? Not a leftist, nor a righty….just an American who tells her story to motivate others.
http://www.latoyamotivates.com/PurchaseBook.html
Feel free to look around her website.
FOB Queens, Desert Divas etc, I had a soldier on my last deployment stand up as the plane was landing back in the states and ask “For all the females on this flight, how does it feel to be ugly again?”.
Yeah we had a layover in Shannon Ireland and ‘somebody’ managed to sneak into the duty free shop.
@Stacy0311- Now that’s fucking funny.
As for Kayla, she’s a Fallujah 8, at MAX. We had another term chicks like them, CumSponges. Our battalion deployed with a total of 7 WMs to work with the female detainees. From what I hear, every SINGLE one turned out to be a “rental car”.
“With her Buddhist and Celtic tattoos”
Anyone wanna take a bet on if she has a clue about the tennants of Budhism???
I don’t think the Ascetic Siddhartha Gautama would’ve been keen on pot smoking & screwing around.
“There wasn’t even a hot lesbian story about them making up. WTH?”
Classic. Thanks for taking at least half the bullet for the rest of us.
Wouldn’t touch Kayla or her book with a ten foot pole.
As for Latoya? Here’s as good a recomendation as I could find;
“You were truly inspirational, Latoya! Hearing you relate your experience was an uplifting experience for all of us.”
-General David H. Petraeus, US CENTCOM Commander
[…] VoteVets losers. Apparently he’s on a hair trigger whenever my name is mentioned because of the review I wrote for his wife’s book. But he tried to tell me that our war in Afghanistan was an emotional response from the beginning. […]
I have no desire to read a book about Iraq or Afghanistan…from anyone, let alone a politically-motivated turd.
I had to figure out which one of the photos was the Kayla Williams you refer to in your post, JL.
I figured that she might not be the Olympic gymnast Kayla Williams, so I let that one go. Then I thought maybe she’s the strawberry-blonde in another photo – possible, so I held that in reserve. It was also possible that she’s the morbidly obese female in one of the photos, or the competitive body builder in another one here: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=kayla+williams&qpvt=kayla+williams&FORM=IGRE
So then I went to Wiki, where she has her bio. Lotsof parent-mommy-hate there, but then, not everyone has perfect parents, right? And she and hubby named their dog Kelby, which is a blatant insult to both Arabs and dogs.
So what can I say? I went to Amazon to do the ‘Look Inside’ thing and right off the back, she’s going on ad nauseum about sex, sex, sex. Okay, I get that she’s a horndog from the getgo and thinks all women in the military are JUST LIKE THAT, but she complains that she got hit on? By soldiers?
Oh, golly gee whiz, I got hit on all the time and I thought those guys were being just plain rude because they weren’t very subtle – but they were sailors, it was the ’60s, and that’s how it was. I was just there to work, they didn’t get that part.
Yes, Ms. Williams is extremely stuck on herself. And my girls are, and always have been, bigger than hers.
I’m going to gag.
And for the record, I think MY books and MY stories are better than hers.
aint nothing wrong with naming a dog Kelby, its no different then just naming it Dog. now i knew a guy that had a beagle that never shut up named muhamed, i thought that was funny.
and having seen the pictures, she isnt anythign to look at even 10 months into a deployment. not saying i wouldnt have turned her around and bent her over 10 months into my deployment, but i would have been imagining someone else that looked good
Just saw this one. And I would not be doing credit to my former service if I didn’t say to #28 PH2, “no pictures, it didn’t happen”.