{"id":191075,"date":"2009-09-27T05:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/27\/rule-number-one-of-writing-about-things-military\/"},"modified":"2009-09-27T05:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T10:54:00","slug":"rule-number-one-of-writing-about-things-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/27\/rule-number-one-of-writing-about-things-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Rule Number One of Writing About Things Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 310px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img43.imageshack.us\/img43\/6314\/sweedishfemaletroops131.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"300\" \/> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">For Some Reason, I Imagine Her Singing Wagner Opera<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Always include the picture of the blond Swedish hottie in uniform whenever you can.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, it appears that the  Swedish Conscription Council (V\u00e4rnplikstr\u00e5det) is complaining that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/22228\/20090922\/\">brassieres offered to women conscripts are not up to the rigors of combat<\/a> (also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensetech.org\/archives\/005028.html\">here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">The poor quality of the standard-issue sports bras prompted a group by female soldiers at the LV 6 military base in Halmstad to voice their displeasure to representatives from the Council recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">The women complained that the bras\u2019 fasteners have a tendency to come undone when the women performed rigorous exercise, forcing the female soldiers to take off all of their equipment in order to refasten the brassieres.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">In addition, the bras aren\u2019t flame resistant and, once lit, can melt onto conscripts\u2019 skin, the G\u00f6teborgs-Posten (GP) newspaper reports.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would think that this is something where little research would be necessary, since it must have been addressed in armies with high numbers of women serving (the number is only about 5% in Sweden).<\/p>\n<p>Just email the Israelis, and you will have an answer in about an hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Some Reason, I Imagine Her Singing Wagner Opera Always include the picture of the blond Swedish hottie in uniform whenever you can. In this case, it appears that the Swedish Conscription Council (V\u00e4rnplikstr\u00e5det) is complaining that the brassieres offered to women conscripts are not up to the rigors of combat (also here): The poor &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1148,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-fashion","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}