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June 07, 2007
Let's Go Kill People, But PC Demands Don't Hurt Their Feelings
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PC brigade ban pin-ups on RAF jets - in case they offend women and Muslims
Daily Mail
In killer heels and little else, they have a definite deadly charm.
But the risque images of women that have decorated warplanes since the First World War have been scrubbed out.
The Ministry of Defence has decreed they could offend the RAF's female personnel.
Officials admitted they had no record of any complaints from the 5,400 women in the RAF.
But commanders are erring firmly on the side of caution and "nose art", as it is known, has been consigned to the history books.
Harrier jump jet bombers currently launching daily airstrikes against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan have been scrubbed clean to comply with the orders.
Critics said the MoD should be focusing on more important issues - such as the quality and quantity of equipment available to British forces sent off to war.
Nose art first appeared on warplanes during the First World War and enjoyed a golden age during the Second World War when thousands of American fighters and bombers were decorated with pictures of glamorous women.
Military commanders tolerated the practice as a morale booster.
Famous examples include the Memphis Belle, a U.S. Army Air Force B-17 bomber that was the subject of a 1990 Hollywood movie.
Many RAF units picked up the practice from the Americans.
Nose art enjoyed another surge in popularity during the 1991 and 2003 Gulf Wars, when risque images appeared on many British warplanes.
The decision to ban the images followed a visit by glamour models to southern Afghanistan before Christmas. During the trip they signed paintings of themselves on RAF aircraft.
Commanders decided the images were sexist and insisted there was no place for them in the modern armed forces.
There was also concern that they could cause offence in a muslim country where until 2001 all women were forced to wear the head-to-toe burkha in public.
Glamour model Lucy Pinder, 23, who visited the RAF detachment at Kandahar last November and signed a painting of herself on a Harrier jet, said such images were only "harmless fun".
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"It's very flattering and it's nice that they get to do something that takes their minds off things for a while," she said from her home in Winchester, Hampshire.
Conservative MP Phillip Davies said: "Has the MoD really got nothing better to worry about at a time when there are serious concerns over equipment and resources available to our forces in Iraq and Afghanistan?"
Wild Thing's comment.........
Maybe they should just all put pictures of pigs on their planes. I don't think this is good news at all. The British have surrendered.
This is so silly to stop doing this. What is going to be next to stop bombing because that is not politically correct to these people either???? Nose art is harmless and gives a lot of support to our troops, it helps the morale of the military as well, at least I think it does.
In many places they can't display our COLORS on conquered territory and they can't display pin ups in their barracks all because they 'might' offend someone else's sensibility. As for the blood spent by those who fought for gained ground or for those who survived relaxing in their barracks or tents, who may want to look at a pin up to remind themselves what they are fighting for and what they have waiting back HOME, well their sensibilities just don't friggin count!!
PC will be our doom!!
One of the reasons you see at the top of this blog the image ....PC Free Zone Gazette, is because I am against PC. It has done much more harm then any good in this world. It has gotten out of hand and is used as a rule of communication, advertising and now these last few years we have seen over and over again PC used in how to fight a war and how to deal with the enemy and at the same time PC is putting our troops in more danger.
This came to me with this story in my email from a Vietnam Vet friend and he said I could share his words with you.He served tours in both the USMC and USAF (1954-1967).
"Bob Hope show had both Marylin & Jayne Mansfield. Jerry Colonna and some accordion playing juggler. Hope wearing a Korean Papa-san hat, a Looooong Korean white clay pipe, Crew chief one piece fatigues covered in squadron patches and swinging a golf club. Girls wearing not much and freezing their asses off for our entertainment. He (Hope)could have yelled out “duckshit” and we would have roared laughing. His risque jokes about Chico village just outside the base caused us to go hysterical. I finished watching the show just in time to head towards the "Witch's Teat" for nighttime guard duty. If, IF there is a heaven, Mr.Hope is occupying a seat with a fantastic view."
Posted by Wild Thing at June 7, 2007 12:55 AM
Comments
I don't find this offensive at all.
What red blooded man doesn't like to look at a pretty girl?
And what red blooded woman doesn't like to look at a handsome man?
The female pilots ought to have good looking male noses on their planes.
Like Matthew McConaghey, Harrison Ford, You get the picture.
It's art. Pop art, but art.
This PC crap has got to stop!
Posted by: Lynn at June 7, 2007 05:14 AM
The Eurabian Union wants burqas on them now? I loved the 8th US AAF B-17, B-24 and B-29 nose art bombers that BOMBED our enemies into oblivion and eventual surrender! Oh those were the days, eh Hitler, Tojo, & Mussolini! - It's all about one's bodily fluids & B-52 POWER!!
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at June 7, 2007 06:00 AM
Last I knew, scantily clad women aren't allowed on USAF aircraft any more. We went PC a long time ago.
Posted by: BobF at June 7, 2007 07:14 AM
*sigh*
Don't they have anything better to get mad at?
Posted by: Trish at June 7, 2007 12:14 PM
To soothe the moslem feelings I guess nose art of sexy donkeys and goats would be appropriate. And for the really devout muzzies, sexy little boys and girls.
Posted by: TomR at June 7, 2007 12:20 PM
Esprit de Corps is dying in favor of appeasement. I had to remove my logo from my M60A1 Armored cruiser due to PC, not my commander's idea mind you but upper eschelon brass. My ride wouldn't fly in any sense of the word but it was 'nose art' on my ride none the less and it was designed to offend the potential enemy in the middle east at the time. I retained my callsign and battle flag, "Backwards Pig" where my response was simply an oink in acknowledgment when called.
Do you realize it would only cost us 535 aircraft to solve most of our national problems in an individual one way flight, let's get them all in the pilots seat then weed out the survivors.
Spot on Tom!!!
Posted by: Jack at June 7, 2007 01:53 PM
That's ridiculous!!
Oh, let's just keep pounding away at the troops morale and make sure that no muslim's nose gets out of joint. phhhtttt!
Some people just really need to get over themselves...
Posted by: yankeemom at June 7, 2007 03:11 PM
What the hell is wrong with these leaders ... What do they think the Troops are thinking about ... their job (?) sometimes, most of the time it's 'Babes'
the 3 Bs, ...Beer, Babes and Broads and not necessarily in that order.
But I have always been a unsatiable sexist.
Posted by: Mark at June 7, 2007 04:52 PM
Lynn, I agree, it is so harmless.
I guess it would tick off the terrorists but who cares. heh heh
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 7, 2007 11:27 PM
Darth those were great, I have always loved nose art. And some of those that did the artwork are really talented.
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 7, 2007 11:28 PM
Bob, that is too bad I think. I rememebr reading all about how huge it was long ago.
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 7, 2007 11:30 PM
Trish. hahaha apparently not. Good point.
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 7, 2007 11:30 PM
Tom, LMAO good one.
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 7, 2007 11:32 PM
Jack good idea.
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 7, 2007 11:33 PM
Yankeemom, I agree, it seems any way they can they are lowering morale inch by inch. sheesh
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 7, 2007 11:34 PM
Mark and a rousing AMEN to that.
When we went to Vietnam it was such fun to see the smiles and reactions on the faces of the troops and get to talk to them. NOse art is like that too, it is all part of raising the morale and putting a smile on the face of the guys.
Posted by: Wild Thing at June 7, 2007 11:37 PM
