{"id":10824,"date":"2011-04-19T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=10824"},"modified":"2011-04-18T22:51:08","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T03:51:08","slug":"all-female-flight-female-flight-suits-and-female-fighter-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/19\/all-female-flight-female-flight-suits-and-female-fighter-pilots\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Female Flight, Female Flight Suits, and Female Fighter Pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the Air Force Times<\/em>, the all-female F-15E Strike Eagle <\/em>combat flight<\/a> orchestrated as part of Women’s History Month “spark[ed] debate<\/a>” over the issue of women in combat<\/a>.\u00a0 The article is largely composed of reader inputs to the Times’ <\/em>calls for comment.\u00a0 Most of the comments support lifting restrictions, and most (including women)\u00a0also say the standards should be the same for men and women.<\/p>\n

The ironic part of that statement is men and women aren’t currently <\/em>held to the same standard; for example, in every service women have different (lower) physical fitness requirements.\u00a0 Even the Marine Corps’ much vaunted “combat fitness test” separates scores by gender, despite the claim its intent is to test physical fitness for what some would call a “gender neutral” combat environment.\u00a0 If the military doesn’t currently <\/em>demand equal physical performance, why is there any reason to believe they would\u00a0do so should the combat ban be lifted?<\/p>\n

Another female commenter noted that it wasn’t ‘transparent’ when she moved into a unit:<\/p>\n

Bravo Company, they knew me, they didn\u2019t care. We were all grown-ups. But I noticed when I went to embed with another company that did not know me they watched their language and changed the way they talked until they got used to having a woman around.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gender is not the “non-issue” some have implied, at least not yet.<\/p>\n

On a related topic, the US Army is reportedly developing flight suits specifically for females<\/a>, which will apparently help with that impolite topic of going to the bathroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The US Air Force recently highlighted female fighter pilots in a special feature.\u00a0\u00a0They interviewed three female fighter pilots at Shaw Air Force Base<\/a>, citing them as three of the 58 female fighter pilots in the Air\u00a0Force; the article says there are 2,689 fighter pilots in total.\u00a0 In another statistical feat, all three of them are married to Air Force pilots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the Air Force Times, the all-female F-15E Strike Eagle combat flight orchestrated as part of Women’s History Month “spark[ed] debate” over the issue of women in combat.\u00a0 The article is largely composed of reader inputs to the Times’ calls for comment.\u00a0 Most of the comments support lifting restrictions, and most (including women)\u00a0also say the standards should be the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[134,1704,84,535,1668,1702,149,2,1703,1701,1580],"class_list":["post-10824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-betsy-hand","tag-combat","tag-f-15e","tag-female","tag-jaime-nordin","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-sarah-eccles","tag-shaw-air-force-base","tag-women-in-combat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}