"Women will be allowed to serve in Russia’s Airborne Troops"

[The Bread Guy]

The latest from ITAR-TASS - my fave line highlighted in yellow ....

Women will be allowed to serve in Russia’s Airborne Troops.

The Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School has resumed the admission of women, Russia’s Defense Ministry’s spokesman for the Airborne Troops, Lieutenant-Colonel Yevgeny Meshkov has said.

“After a five-year pause the General Margelov Airborne Academy in Ryazan has started the admission of female officers for ground and airborne operations. Female cadets of the Academy’s first year serve in military units. Their service is assessed as positive,” Meshkov told ITAR-TASS on Monday.

By the end of the month the best graduates will undergo a general military course. They will be trained the basics of guard, garrison and barracks service. The service will include warm up exercises, calisthenics and firearms training, he said.

Special attention will be paid to studying parachutes. They will make familiarisation and training parachute jumps, Meshkov said.

One hopes ....  ;D

 

[Colin Parkinson]

can't help myself....

Prepare for the assault

 

[Edward Campbell]

I'd bow down before that, too ...
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... or this:

(I watched the entire CCP 60th Anniversary of the Revolution parade (2009) ~ it went on for
bloody hours ~ paying special attention to then supreme leader Hu Jintao ... he smiled once,
just once as far as I could tell: when the women passed in review. Maybe it's because he knew
that the damned parade was almost over, but I think it was the women.)

 

[The Bread Guy]

can't help myself....

Prepare for the assault

Some Sergeant Major's head must be exploding at the .... intriging variety of black high heels in the ranks.

I'd bow down before that, too ...
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... or this:

(I watched the entire CCP 60th Anniversary of the Revolution parade (2009) ~ it went on for
bloody hours ~ paying special attention to then supreme leader Hu Jintao ... he smiled once,
just once as far as I could tell: when the women passed in review. Maybe it's because he knew
that the damned parade was almost over, but I think it was the women.)

I'm still liking the Chinese "killers in pink" look ....

 

[Colin Parkinson]

I thought about an intriguing variation of "Rommel's Asparagus"  to stop or entrap female paratroopers but decided it was NSFW

 

[Journeyman]

Some Sergeant Major's head must be exploding at the .... intriging variety of black high heels in the ranks.

So we're not the only Army with LPO boot 'crises.' 

 

[Good2Golf]

Some Sergeant Major's head must be exploding at the .... intriging variety of black high heels in the ranks.

...or maybe they have a common-sense policy...."I don't care what they are, so long as they're black and have a 4" heel!"  :nod:

 

[Edward Campbell]

:highjack:

Some Sergeant Major's head must be exploding at the .... intriging variety of black high heels in the ranks.I'm still liking the Chinese "killers in pink" look ....

The "killers in pink" are a Beijing Militia unit ...

City militias have a short and chequered history in China. They were established, circa 1950 as some sort of mix of a paramilitary police and local defence force. They might have even made some sense in some regions where Nationalist (Kuomintang) rebels were still active.

Over the years the city militias evolved, again and again, including, as a means for the children of 'landlords' (those not of proved peasant/worker/soldier stock) to "rise" to the ranks of peasants and workers and, thereby, qualify to enter a universioty (a rule under Mao) and for quite some time as a "unit" in which the children of powerful CCP officials/politicians could do their compulsory (conscript) military service. When compulsory military service for university students, itself, finally evolved into a one week "camp" during the summer between high school and university (1990s, I think) the raison d'être of the Beijing Militia more or less collapsed.

The young women who marched in 2009 were a mix of students, actresses and models, invited to audition for the parade through modelling agencies and theatres. They were selected based, primarily, on appearance, including uniformity of height and weight.The two young women who "led" the battalion (there were about 300± in the ranks), Zhang Xiaofei and Zhao Na, were both professional models. More here and here.

 

[Ludoc]

We can not afford to fall any further behind China in the female model arms race. It is all our duty to impress upon the government that the model gap must be closed.

 

[Humphrey Bogart]

If this is the army, where do I sign up?  ;D

 

[PMedMoe]

Well, since this thread has gone down the tube....

We can not afford to fall any further behind China in the female model arms race. It is all our duty to impress upon the government that the model gap must be closed.

Males too, not just females. 

 

[George Wallace]

Well, since this thread has gone down the tube....

Males too, not just females. 

Don't worry Moe.  There are enough house apes of the male species who body wax and of the exhibitionist state of mind to fill your desires.  >