tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post5982636002975184749..comments2023-10-08T12:11:52.993+13:00Comments on New Zealand Conservative: How on Earth did the 101st Airborne get on without Lt. Col. Sonya Cable?Lucia Mariahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10485990994973953860noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-11367938096430363082012-03-02T16:23:06.221+13:002012-03-02T16:23:06.221+13:00I think we all need to relax about this a bit. The...I think we all need to relax about this a bit. The soldiers who fought in WWII did not have nutritionists looking over their backs, and they did (more than!) just fine. --- But, since we have more understanding of how to sustain physical health, why not apply that understanding? We don't want marines wasting time "counting calories" but surely we want them as healthy as possible? It's not ALL liberal woosynessAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-55498459828344717552012-03-02T16:23:04.208+13:002012-03-02T16:23:04.208+13:00I think we all need to relax about this a bit. The...I think we all need to relax about this a bit. The soldiers who fought in WWII did not have nutritionists looking over their backs, and they did (more than!) just fine. --- But, since we have more understanding of how to sustain physical health, why not apply that understanding? We don't want marines wasting time "counting calories" but surely we want them as healthy as possible? It's not ALL liberal woosynessAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-42234735116408601332012-02-29T21:48:25.561+13:002012-02-29T21:48:25.561+13:00Which is absolutely true. Not as though you can ju...Which is absolutely true. Not as though you can just pop downstairs to the 'fridge when you're on ops, is it?<br />Anyway, it's amazing how the food improves in direct proportion to hunger...KGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01940428991630766942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-85141313948576609322012-02-29T21:03:22.178+13:002012-02-29T21:03:22.178+13:00Back in the 70's, eating our rats that had dat...Back in the 70's, eating our rats that had date-expired in the sixties-we were told that if we couldn't deal with shit food, we just weren't hard enough and should just fuck off now...Oswald Bastablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11828229103486326473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-37152844366493760262012-02-29T18:50:07.657+13:002012-02-29T18:50:07.657+13:00Ah yes..and "the quick and the dead, Sergeant...Ah yes..and "the quick and the dead, Sergeant!" :)KGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01940428991630766942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-75009717443627164552012-02-29T16:52:48.056+13:002012-02-29T16:52:48.056+13:00Back in '66, we thought there should have been...Back in '66, we thought there should have been warning labels on all our chow; nonetheless, how is any of this nonsense supposed to help us win wars? Or is that no longer the purpose of Obama's military? For some reason, I have trouble envisioning a bunch of mineral-water sipping 'soldier-athletes' under the command of LTC Sonya Cable (a fine name for a James Bond villainess), knowing the answer to the question, "What's the spirit of the bayonet?"Bob Mackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13452703873713992208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-76203155087607568882012-02-29T14:43:33.149+13:002012-02-29T14:43:33.149+13:00Just one more reason to keep women out of the mili...Just one more reason to <i>keep women out of the military.</i>KGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01940428991630766942noreply@blogger.com