Posted on Jul 7, 2018
WWI Signal Corps Women Could Be Recognized With Highest Civilian Award
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We certainly are seeing many, many posthumous awards nowadays, CW5 Jack Cardwell. Better late than never I suppose.
Here’s a piggy back comment for your thread. It was the U.S. Army Signal Corps that purchased the first airplane for any military! It was purchased from the Wright Brothers in 1909! Lt Col Charlie Brown SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Here’s a piggy back comment for your thread. It was the U.S. Army Signal Corps that purchased the first airplane for any military! It was purchased from the Wright Brothers in 1909! Lt Col Charlie Brown SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
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SGT James Murphy
I never understood posthumous awards... If you can't say thank you to me while I'm here then why bother?
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LTC Stephen C.
SGT James Murphy, it’s occurring with ever increasing frequency as best I can tell. Also, I don’t disagree with your sentiment and at first, I felt as you did.
However, I think there’s more to these acts than just giving recognition long overdue. I believe our government has recognized that the majority of the population knows little or nothing about the armed services, and they’re trying to keep the services in the public eye in a good way. It’s sheer speculation, of course, but it may be a type of PR move.
Lt Col Charlie Brown SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth SMSgt Thor Merich PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
However, I think there’s more to these acts than just giving recognition long overdue. I believe our government has recognized that the majority of the population knows little or nothing about the armed services, and they’re trying to keep the services in the public eye in a good way. It’s sheer speculation, of course, but it may be a type of PR move.
Lt Col Charlie Brown SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth SMSgt Thor Merich PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
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SGT James Murphy
It's all Self Serving PR.... I hate to be so skeptical but I WAS in ASA remember.. 8-)
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
LTC Stephen C. ggod point. And these wars are done so arguing about the right/wrong of them is a waste of time for the average person.
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A little late for the ladies from that group, but still a great thing to be done for them. Something their relatives can be proud of.
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Great article. I know that men and women are supposed to be equal. But there are many things that women just do better than men. Another example is police/fire (911) dispatchers. I was always amazed that these women could do 3 things simultaneously and do them well. Over my career, I have spent hundreds of hours working in Dispatch. I was one of the best officers cross-trained to work there. I could do one thing very well, two things barely adequately, and couldn’t even touch trying to do three things simultaneously.
It’s about time these ladies from WWI were recognized for their contribution to the war.
Great share.
It’s about time these ladies from WWI were recognized for their contribution to the war.
Great share.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
LTC Stephen C. Can't speak to that for the Air Force, none of the aircraft I flew talked back to me. But I can speak to building emergency systems. When they were building our Aquarium in 1995 the life safety/support systems had men's voices during all the installation and testing. About a week before we opened the technicians came in and changed everything over to women's voices. When I asked why they told me exactly what you just said.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
LTC Stephen C. Wonder why they didn't carry that on to aircraft developed after the B-58? Neither the F/FB-111 nor the B-1 had voices, just warning lights and buzzers/tones.
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LTC Stephen C.
I was hoping you could elaborate, Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen! You think political correctness got in the way? Seems like those aircraft preceded the PC craze affecting everyone now.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
LTC Stephen C. I have no idea, at first thought perhaps Convair had proprietary control over voice warning systems, but then research told me General Dynamics bought Convair and GD built the F/FB-111s so that theory went down the drain. Best guess I can come up with is cost, warning lights and tones were less costly than any voice system back then.
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