Dancers Land in Iraq. Marines Offer No Resistance.

By MICHAEL R. GORDON
Published: August 27, 2006
HADITHA DAM, Iraq — ...

But at Haditha Dam, the marines have the Purrfect Angelz, as the dancers are known. Their tours, which organizers say are paid for by the military, have occasionally stirred some controversy. During the group’s 2005 visit to Baghdad, a female Air Force officer complained that the dancers’ wardrobes and routines encouraged insensitive attitudes toward women in the military ...

“We want to make it more about talent than being risqué,” Tanea Brooks said. “We are not going to boost every part of the morale.” Her credits include a three-year stint as a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, a role in a country music video, “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk” by Trace Adkins, and a turn as quarterback for the New York Euphoria, one of the teams that established the Lingerie Football League, in which models played football dressed in underwear ...

A recent show began with an entreaty by a diligent sergeant who saw the event as an opportunity to appeal to the marines to re-enlist. He was loudly shouted down. An announcer who was traveling with the dance group told the marines not to pay attention to news media reports that the American public did not support the war. The nation, she said, was solidly behind them ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/world/middleeast/27morale.html?hp&ex=1156651200&en=6fc952904e8e55a5&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Geez. Don't begrudge the guys a little side show but the fact they they use it for reenlistment purposes and LIE about the US public "supporting the war?"

It's sick how they act like "supporting the war" and "supporting the troops" is the same thing. Who can support the troops if they are OK with sending them into Shrubby's Meatgrinder?

How did I miss that?

The value/worth of women is made clear. Nice.

... welcome to DU :toast:

if you don't figure out how to get them laid once in while things WILL GET UGLY. Any appeals to the "dignity of female troops" or proffesionalism are strictly a denial of reality. Soldiers WILL find a way to get laid; channel it or let it run loose and suffer the consequences.

I hate the war and protest against it several times a month...but...if they flew in teams of Las Vegas callgirls to every base twice a month on Uncle Sam's dime I wouldn't blink an eye. Those soldiers are in a true shithole and bitching about their behavior without spending "feet on the street" time to get them home is bullshit.