Lots of questions, but at least I'm combining! (WAS Anyone Up For A Good )

[jdr0918]

<<<In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Cindy C." wrote:...Finally, 
Sergeant Majorette and Sandy wrote about their experiences in the 
military.  I gotta tell ya, I had no idea that women of my generation 
were being admitted to the military.  Were there reasonable 
opportunities for advancement when you guys were in?>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

Sandy was a WAC and I was in the gender-integrated Army, so we're 
talking different eras, but I'd have to say: reasonable opportunites? 
Hell, no, and don't get me started. I found myself, in the eighties, 
relating to stories my father told me about the segregated Army in 
the forties. That's just wrong. However, once I realized and accepted 
that I was not going to be taken seriously as a soldier or a human 
being, I was able to find the experience "rather good value", as they 
say in English.

--JDR ("Ah, Therese, I am older than a boat, and there can be no 
folly in owning it..." -Gertrude Stein.)