{"id":42859,"date":"2014-04-07T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42859"},"modified":"2014-07-15T09:36:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T14:36:59","slug":"as-long-as-it-fits-under-a-helmet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42859","title":{"rendered":"As Long As It Fits Under A Helmet&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The traditional High and Tight would\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/article\/20140331\/NEWS07\/303310051\/Black-female-soldiers-say-new-grooming-reg-racially-biased-\" target=\"_blank\">solve this problem<\/a>, if we weren\u2019t trying so hard to be stylish and ethnic that we can\u2019t figure out how to be a soldier.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend every non-minority officer above Captain be fired and we pay millions of dollars in reparations to the women whose feelings were hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps a better answer:  since the military&#8217;s most elite troops &#8211; &#8220;Delta&#8221; and &#8220;Seal Team Six&#8221; (neither unit has actually gone by either name in decades) wear their hair long and even wear beards, clearly the answer is to turn the entire Army and Navy into Deltas and Seals.  <\/p>\n<p>Then everyone will be happy.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The traditional High and Tight would\u00a0solve this problem, if we weren\u2019t trying so hard to be stylish and ethnic that we can\u2019t figure out how to be a soldier. I recommend every non-minority officer above Captain be fired and we pay millions of dollars in reparations to the women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42859"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45768,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42859\/revisions\/45768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}