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Originally Posted by IUHoosiergirl88
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I've never been afraid to be a girl playing in a male-dominated area, but this is beyond my comfort level.
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<laneswerve> Me too. In the AF, I was the first woman in my career field, though others followed rapidly, and that wasn't even my first foray into that; when I was in high school I worked on my dad's pit crew for dirt-track stock-car racing. NO other women there. At one of our overseas locations, the commander, station superintendent, chief of admin, and chief of operations were all women -- the local military personnel always asked to speak to our (male) chief of maintenance. At another overseas location, when the "house mother" (a maid who'd been with the unit for 30+ years) heard there was a woman coming in to fill my spot, absolutely insisted the unit personnel were wrong.
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