Air Force removes posters at Langley AFB
According to the Virginian-Pilot posters at Langley Air Force Base have been removed after the National Organization for Women and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation complained that they were sexist. The posters read;
“Men cannot live without faith except for brief moments of anarchy or despair,” one poster read. “Faith leads to conviction – and convictions lead to actions. It is only a man of deep convictions, a man of deep faith, who will make the sacrifices needed to save his manhood. … It is obvious that our enemy will attack us at our weakest spot. The hole in our armor is our lack of faith. We need to revive a fighting faith by which we can live, and for which we would be willing even to die.”
Initially, the MRFF filed a complaint from 16 airmen because of the repeated testament of “faith”. The Air Force dismissed the complaint because “the display does not endorse, disapprove of, or extend preferential treatment for any faith, belief, or absence of belief.” So NOW stuck their stupid nose in the controversy, because the 1955 text focused on “men” excluding women.
“What message does that send to young women who currently serve, or want to serve, in the military?” NOW President Terry O’Neill wrote. “What do you say to the women in your command who make the same sacrifices to protect their country as do men? General, there is simply no compromise when it comes to fighting the bigotry of sexism nor the prejudice of religious triumphalism. Women are just as patriotic, just as dedicated and just as worthy of our nation’s trust as their male counterparts.”
Of course, the Air Force caved to pressure from the two grievance committees. MRFF calls it a “triumph”. ISIS thanks Mikey for the distraction from the war against terror.
Category: Air Force
Looks like Little Mikey Whinestein is at it again.
Fa’kheem.
Those freaks need to remove their respective heads from their asses and read the Bible, especially where mankind (includes the dumber species, namely NOW members) and also describes all mankind (both sexes) as “Sons of Adam”….son of a gun, they got shown up for their ignorance again!!
When is the chairforce (no offense ChipNASA) going to tell Mikey Whinestein to jam it?
For some odd reason the Air Force seems to be very acquiescent when Weinstein makes demands. Think I read that he attended the Academy? Have to wonder if he has dirt on someone somehow. Caving in on a quote about as sexist as “all men are created equal” is just foolish.
Since it’s not Throat Punch Thursday, can we have Curb Stomp Tuesday for Mikey and his merry band of morons?
I’m in.
I’ll bring the curb.
From the local church parking lot.
And then, since it’s Tuesday, we all go for tacos
The word faith was not associated with a deity. In context, one could read that as faith in one’s fellow airmen, faith in the branch and its leadership, or what have you. One can also understand faith to mean faith in God. But that’s an individual determination. Yes, the AF caved once again. I have no faith in the Air Force when it comes to fighting these whiny, silly complaints.
And not all that long ago, the word “man” conveyed either a guy or the entire human species, depending on context.
I guess every day’s a show trial, here in the USSA.
Ah..I see now. We should expunge any and all historical quotes with gender from our memory and existence simply in the name of historical revisionism and “inclusiveness”?
I wonder how the PC gender studies masses would feel if we did the same to the written works of Mary Daly, Gloria Steinem, Valerie Solanas, Andrea Dworkin, etc?
like “A person needs another person like a fish needs a bicycle” – just doesn’t have the same ring to it, does it?
wow. WOW.I read then re-read the poster. I find it inspirational. Per Merriam-Webster, the definition of “faith” is “Complete trust or confidence in someone or something”.
As for the “man” reference, I read it as “mankind”, which last I checked included every homo sapien on the planet.
I am so sick and tired of these whiny, wussie women who are so insecure in their femininity that the mere mention of the existence of the male gender is taken as a micro-aggression. And I am so tired of it all and disgusted with the idiots, this time in the Air Force who caved in to this nonsense. Because idiots cave, idiots keep complaining.
All Airmen enlisting or reenlisting must take the following oath: “I, (State
your full name), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and
defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign
and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and
that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the
orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the
Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.”
Faith? God? Mikey had better get cracking. His bank account isn’t going to fill itself, you know.
…All Airmen enlisting …
Exactly!
Airwomen? Nope.
Airpersons? No.
Airhumans? Negative.
Airmen. Roger-doger you old codger, roger-wilco-over-and-out.
JSF
I expect Mad Dog to put an end to this sort of tomfoolery.
Yeah, by making it clear base commanders should not be posting religious crap up in the first place.
Did you actually read the linked article?
Nope, you did not. That is why your credibility is worthless Lars.
Zu Befehl, Herr Kommissar!
Bulldoze the Base Chapels!
Disband the Chaplain Corps!
Genau wie in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, Herr Kommissar!
OH REALLY Babbles McButthead? I bet you were eating your boogers with delight while wishing for another nice warm enema when you read about the Air Farce caving to pisspants political correctness once again
I’m sure Mad Dog will take your opinion seriously, “Lars”
There is a lot of whining and complaining about other people whining and complaining. Hard to tell who the special snowflakes are.
What is worse the people that have to actually live in a garrison climate that is pushing religious and sexist notions complaining about that, or a bunch of people that literally have nothing to do with the issue and are not directly effected by it whining about those that are effected by it complaining.
Must always winter on this board because of all the snowflakes.
So you are saying that your opinion is irrelevant because you know nothing about the Air Force culture, the meaning of the words on the poster, the history of the quotations, or of any garrison climate that is pushing religious and sexist notions? Or maybe you are saying that no one in the Air Force has a legitimate beef because there is no garrison climate that is pushing religious and sexist notions in the United States Air Force.
Whatever.
Commissar (yea I said your name), NOW has no real dog in the fight either so by your own argument they should STFU.
As I see it, WHINEstein’s bawling didn’t sway them but the Nasty Organization of Wombats did while Babbles McButthead gloats.
Just can’t wait for the zombie apocalypse. These fuckers have time to sit around and get “offended” by piddly shit like this, they have a life that’s way too easy.
You are correct, sir.
If they’re completely ‘offended’/incapacitated by the mere sight of words on a poster, how in the hell are they going to react the first time that enemy small arms rounds go zipping past their empty little heads?
The liberals will be FIRST to go in a Zombie Apocalypse. Think about it, first they’ll call for “Zombie Rights” along with “Safe Zones” and as soon as they “protest” for that shit, “*BRAAAIIIIIINNNNS!*”…
Oh no posters. The Special Snowflakes are so sensitive. 😵
Every weekend I take some of our VA inpatients to Catholic Mass at the hospital chapel. I am not Catholic myself. As a VA Volunteer I help push wheelchairs and escort the patients wanting to attend Church.
I sit in the back of the Chapel (usually reading my email on my smartphone) and when the service is over with, I take the patients back to their rooms.
No big deal.
I’m deeply offended that you’re not deeply offended.
Soon “airmen” will be under attack.
Nowhere in the quoted text did I see any identification of the subject of the faith in question. Is it faith in the God of Moses and Abraham? Faith in a generalized religious sense? Faith in our country? Faith in the Air Force? Faith in fellow Airmen? Faith in the Great Pumpkin? The camaraderie, solidarity, and support expected amongst members of a military organization? A pornstar named Faith? The word “faith” has a much broader generally-accepted meaning than the strictly-religious sense.
Is there an image on the poster implying a particular subject? I’m gonna guess not.
Little Miss Mikey Whinestein doth protest too much. Again. How much money is he making off his one-man “nonprofit” organization again?
You asked, and CFP answered!
“Mikey Weinstein’s charitable salary total reaches $1.95 million”
12 July 2016
http://christianfighterpilot.com/2016/07/12/mikey-weinsteins-charitable-salary-total-reaches-1-95-million/
Seven digits, eh? “Nonprofit” my Black Irish Roman Catholic ass.
This s just stupid. The Air Force should have some real issues to ponder instead of nonsense like this.
Who complained about the posters?
16 very bored, uniformed personnel.
They say it is 16 enlisted, officer and civilian people. That really tells us nothing. I want names. I want to personally visit any who truly are uniformed personnel. I really don’t care what the civilians think, or rather feel, about the posters in question.
My reality is that I have long thought posters to be a pretty big waste of money, but for these particular posters to be singled out as offensive offends me beyond description.
With whom do we lodge a complaint about being offended by these special snowflakes who had to work this hard to find something about which to be offended?
Because this is Langley, it comes as no surprise to me. 1 1/2 years there was 1 1/2 years too many. That place is like a parasite that sucks the life right out of you. Our upper level NCO’s never stayed for more than maybe as long as I did. BOHICA is a weekly item discussed at all staff meetings. Blue Falcons thrive there.
The CIC should immediately order the posters back up, relieve the Air Force Officer that pulled them down from duty and tell Mikey to fuck himself
So fucking tired of all the offense, butthurt and assholery. Makes me want to live as a hermit.
I SO miss the Good Old Days when this world wasn’t so infested and infected with perpetually offended PUSSIES!