The petticoat dictators 
Alpha Game | June 28, 2014 | by VD
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 One of the observable patterns of history is the way in which some
women simply will not stop trying to interfere with men's decisions
and actions, even when they clearly have no idea what is involved.
And, just as clearly, they don't give even the smallest damn about the
men concerned.

_The combat experiences were different for airmen from the ground
troops, but there was a similarity in reaction. After three months,
most infantrymen suffered from some form of battle fatigue. For the
airmen, that happened after twenty-five to thirty missions. Still
their commanders kept them in trouble._
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_ _Flight Surgeon McKittrick treated men who had reached, and
sometimes passed the breaking point.... McKittrick saw to it that
crews got liquor rations after a mission during debriefing. "It was
done very methodically," he said, "and it did a great deal to settle
them down and it gave them a little more appetite. it helped to relax
them slightly from the horrors of a particularly terrifying mission
that, all too often, surpassed fiction. And I'll be damned if the
Women's Christian Temperance Union didn't try their best to put a stop
to that."_
- _Citizen Soldiers_, Stephen Ambrose, p. 103

I suppose we should be grateful that they didn't try to prevent
morphine from being given to the wounded. Assuming they didn't. I find
this amazing, especially when one recalls that liquor rations have
been a formally specified soldier's right since the days of the Roman
legions. 
 
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