And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
My stepmother (now deceased - - - lived to be ninety-nine) was the 104th to enlist when the United States Army began accepting females in the newly created Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (i.e., "WAAC", later to become the WACs), and spent the war in Florida watching for enemy aircraft.
I was 23 at Martin Marietta attending mil-spec soldering school for Pershing II. Me and another guy, the rest women. Like a couple dozen. For the women, if they couldn't pass then no job soldering circuit cards. Some of them got really emotional when their work was rejected. I asked the teacher why they recruit mainly women? Answer was that the women were far better employees working under microscopes making miniature metallic connections. I had no idea.
I worked in a machine shop where the inspectors were all women. Bickering and back stabbing was normal and you never knew what would set them off. Unlike hollywood 90% were over weight and middle age.
One more about women. Lockheed does the Javlin, Thaad, and Jassm in Troy Alabama. Lots of women assembling high explosives there and the majority of them were blacks. When I asked why, the reason was simple. You need a secret security clearance which blocked mostly men.
America's manufacturing might was certainly a formidable weapon in WWII. Too bad we don't make anything in this country anymore. We don't even make our own pharmaceutical drugs now. Shortsighted.
all women still carry a "concealed" weapon though.
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I was 23 at Martin Marietta attending mil-spec soldering school for Pershing II. Me and another guy, the rest women. Like a couple dozen. For the women, if they couldn't pass then no job soldering circuit cards. Some of them got really emotional when their work was rejected. I asked the teacher why they recruit mainly women? Answer was that the women were far better employees working under microscopes making miniature metallic connections. I had no idea.
ReplyDeleteI worked in a machine shop where the inspectors were all women. Bickering and back stabbing was normal and you never knew what would set them off. Unlike hollywood 90% were over weight and middle age.
DeleteOne more about women. Lockheed does the Javlin, Thaad, and Jassm in Troy Alabama. Lots of women assembling high explosives there and the majority of them were blacks. When I asked why, the reason was simple. You need a secret security clearance which blocked mostly men.
ReplyDeleteGreat short story featuring one of them: "The Pacific" by Mark Helprin.
ReplyDeleteAmerica's manufacturing might was certainly a formidable weapon in WWII. Too bad we don't make anything in this country anymore. We don't even make our own pharmaceutical drugs now. Shortsighted.
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