"Air Force Football Uniform Honors Doolittle Raid" Topic

The Air Force Academy football team's plan to wear uniforms honoring the participants in an air attack on Japan during World War II has elicited positive and negative reactions…

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I too read where some were upset about this. So sad.
I met and talked with some of these guys. Even went to some of their last reunions at Wright Patterson AFB.

Hero's all.

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I wonder what the reaction might have been had the uniforms honored the ENOLA GAY?

and negative reactions…

Assuming intelligence is distributed roughly along a bell curve, somebody has to occupy the left side tail.

Those idiots are going to be seriously butt hurt when the B-21 Raider deploys.

Maybe the Navy team can issue uniforms commemorating the Battle of Midway.

The Modern US Military like to put on the trappings and glory of the WW2 Generation. The IKe Jacket Army uniforms as a example. Also the chest wall of ribbons doesn't help either.

Controversy gets clicks. The article gives us no hint as to how many people are actually upset. It may be a very small number. There aren't even examples offered of the tweets from the offended. Maybe it's not much of a deal.

Meanwhile, it's disappointing the article doesn't include a photo of the uniform, I had to google for that.

Great idea, though. That raid and its every detail, both technical and moral, are worth remembering. Forever.

Andrew, that's what passes for journalism (sic) these days.

To be fair Military.com is to journalism what a course of leeches is to medicine.

McKinstry, you must have meant Military.Com and TV & Social News Media is to journalism…."

Be nice if the article actually showed the uniform in question…

You can see the helmet in here

Subject: Air Force Will Wear Epic Uniforms Honoring Doolittle Raid – OutKick


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+1 Andrew Walters!

Our country has too much money when we can afford a one-off uniform for a sports team. That said, I do like them honoring Doolittle's flyers.

Anyone who does not like it . . . boo hoo hoo go get a life.

What would honor vets is to not suck at football.

When the International Military Tribunal for the Far East was convened in 1945 to try Japanese war criminals, the imminent independence of India and the Philippines led the Allies to include an Indian and a Filipino as judges. At the end of the first trial, both dissented from the sentences imposed- the Indian on the grounds that they were too harsh, the Filipino on the grounds that they were too lenient. It's my understanding that when the Filipino was asked why that was, he replied, "the Philippines were occupied by the Japanese, while India was not."

We now live in a society where influential media and political figures of both parties are drawn for the most part from people whose most formative experience is four or five years of immersion in the college system. The ones whose trust funds allow it can track into four or five years of poorly paid jobs in DC that move them effortlessly up into the system, where they can then make important decisions about matters entirely beyond their ken. Think I'm kidding? I just saw a Twitter post from a former official who managed to escape the mud of Burning Man by walking six (!) miles in the darkness, and Tweeting that it was "incredibly harrowing." Some more experienced soul replied, "sounds like just another night at Ranger School."

Analysis like this can only come from people like that- people of whom, as Paul Fussell once said of John Kenneth Galbraith, "I don't demand that he experience having his a** shot off, I merely note that he didn't."

We've come a long way since Lt(g) John Kennedy bobbed up amidst the wreckage of his boat and realized he was in a situation that his father's money couldn't get him out of. I don't think we are better off for it.