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WACs, WAVEs, WAAFs and BAMs
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2013 8:44 pm
by db5
Most everyone knows of the first three. What about the BAMs? They came much later. Who were they and what service were the integrated into?
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2013 10:47 pm
by JPG
db5 wrote:Most everyone knows of the first three. What about the BAMs? They came much later. Who were they and what service were the integrated into?
Semper Fi!:D
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 12:53 am
by skou
I've got a customer that used to serve as a Marine.
There is NO WAY IN HE**, that I'd call her a "BAM."
Broad @$$ Marine.
steve
Picture of a BAMs
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 9:23 pm
by db5
Broad and ugly; looks like a whale. Not like any of the BAMs I remember.
http://breakingdefense.com/2012/06/11/n ... s-out-thu/
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 10:31 pm
by JPG
Of course the Navy got it wrong!:D
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 11:15 pm
by Ed in Tampa
db5 wrote:Most everyone knows of the first three. What about the BAMs? They came much later. Who were they and what service were the integrated into?
The first three are offical names or titles the last BAM is a made up name that was meant to degrades and insult every woman that served in the Marines.
In today's world of sexual harassment cases in the service it is quick to be obsolete and no wise soldier would ever openly use the term.
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 8:58 am
by db5
JPG40504 wrote:Of course the Navy got it wrong!:D
Of course you know that the Marine Corps is, and always has been, a department of the Navy.
It's the men's department.
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 9:03 am
by JPG
db5 wrote:Of course you know that the Marine Corps is, and always has been, a department of the Navy.
It's the men's department.
Of course! The paychecks came from 'them'. The Marines were the first right thing 'they' did!:D
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 10:39 am
by Ed in Tampa
Go to the gravesite of Megan McClung, in Arlington National Cemetery, the first woman marine killed in the middle east and see if the designation BAM is anywhere on her tomb stone.
I think in honor of her and the other Female Marines that lost their lives in defense of this nation, this derogatory and antiquated acronym should be shelved.
Enough said?
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 12:14 pm
by terrydowning
I agree with Ed.