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ACLU files suit to allow counter-recruiting

If an organization were to present legitimate job opportunities (ones where you actually get paid) and career training opportunities (where you get paid while learning), then they should be allowed to recruit at any school. Recruiters are HR reps for the military. If you are going to demand equal treatment then you should offer equal opportunity, not just preach an agenda.

— TJMAC77SP

Backtalk: PT problems

PT levels are a standard (among a lot of others). Set the bar and make your guys meet it. We never did supervised boot shining, remedial hair trimming, college classes in the work center. Why coddle with this standard? It costs me between 240 and 400 man-hours per week of duty time to support unit PT. Let them do it on their own time and use the progressive discipline model to enforce it like everything else.

— BRAVO10000

Just make PT and weight tests like random urinalysis tests. Everyone gets selected at least once a year to do their PT test and weigh in by a disinterested centralized testing official. You pass — great! See you next year during the no-notice test. You fail? Sorry, here is your letter of reprimand and you now get the daily PT regimen and extra before and after duty hours mandated PT scrutiny until you come back into standards.

— BlueLabRat

Gates open to lifting ban on casket photos

As the mother of a man who died in service to his country, I’ve thought about this issue for quite some time. Photos of flag-draped coffins, with no identification of whose remains are involved, provide a way for the public to see the cost of war, and it allows the families and friends of the deceased to see the care with which their loved one’s remains are handled. ... While I don’t have the experience of having my son’s flag-draped casket shown, I do have the experience of having his medical flight from Guam to Hawaii to Texas shown. While some might find this distressing, it allowed me to see a glimpse of the level of professionalism displayed by those involved in his care on this flight. It allowed me to see what his experience was on this flight, even though he was not conscious for it. In a way, it gave me a little more time to spend with him. Do I have a final answer to this question? No, except to say it ought to be up to the families involved in cases where identities are visible in the photo.

— CVal

Scientists disagree on value of waist measure

I just got off of a 16-hour shift — again. I think I’ll skip the PT today and the rhetoric as well. Please stop with the propaganda and animatronic AFI spewage. I, and so many of my troops, are living in the real world right now. It’s like your washing machine not working correctly. You can read the directions out loud over and over, but if just one component of the washer isn’t functioning, it’s still broke. So is the Air Force PT program.

— Angry Irishman