Sergeant in trouble for Playboy spread(no pun intended)
An Air Force staff sergeant who posed nude for Playboy magazine has been relieved of her duties while the military investigates, officials said Thursday.
In February's issue, hitting newsstands this week, Michelle Manhart is photographed in uniform yelling and holding weapons under the headline "Tough Love." The following pages show her partially clothed, wearing her dog tags while working out, as well as completely nude.
"This staff sergeant's alleged action does not meet the high standards we expect of our airmen, nor does it comply with the Air Force's core values of integrity, service before self, and excellence in all we do," Oscar Balladares, spokesman for Lackland Air Force Base, said in a statement.
Manhart told Playboy that she considers herself as standing up for her rights.
"Of what I did, nothing is wrong, so I didn't anticipate anything, of course," Manhart, 30, told The Associated Press. "I didn't do anything wrong, so I didn't think it would be a major issue."
Manhart, who is married with two children, joined the Air Force in 1994, spending time in Kuwait in 2002. She trains airmen at Lackland.
My thoughts:
1. Well duh, stoopy, what did you think would happen?
2. What, were there no pretty girls available for this month's issue (catty, I know, but tell me I'm wrong)
3. Women who do this sort of crap make me want to beat them with a stick.
You know, I got no problem with women who pose for Playboy. If you want to degrade yourself by showing the whole world your hoo-ha because you need attention, by all means be my guest. But don’t do it if you’ve chosen a profession that is historically thought of as a man’s job.
She is 30 years old so she’s old enough to know better, she didn’t have to do it for the money, so that leaves one excuse: SOMEBODY NEED ATTENTION!
While real women are fighting and dying in Iraq, Ms. Thang is spread eagle with her kitty hanging out saying, “Oooh look at me, I’m a soldier too.”
I would suspect that female soldiers have to be twice as good and work twice as hard to break sexual barriers and be taken seriously. She just succeeded in making all female soldier’s jobs much more difficult.
And if she didn’t see this coming, then she is too stupid to be a soldier and should stick to spreading her legs for money.
So pick a lane, Staff Sergeant Paris. You can be a good soldier, or you can be a good ho, but you can’t be both. When they told you to be all that you can be, this isn't what they had in mind…
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My my my....snarky today eh. ;)
Do you need some new batteries or should we loosen your collar?
Regards.
Alex Matlock
Defender of the women's right to show their hoo haas for remuneration.
Eek..and she's someone's mother. I can't imagine mine having done that and really, I fail to see what is so attractive about a hoo-ha. They are kind of odd looking. I wonder if she is a 'Bush' supporter. Sorry...couldn't resist that one. :-)
You might recall that we had to get Bush (41) out of the White House to get some bush in the White House.
Lol yes I did wake up on the snarky side of the bed. But then again, every side is the snarky side. And Alex, women everywhere are breathing a sigh of relief that you are on the job, defending hoo-haas’ right to see light from coast to coast.
And Murf, I would imagine that by now, everyone in her platoon is a Bush supporter…or at least her bush supporter. And I, too, fail to see the big attraction to a hoo-haa. But apparently it’s the most fascinating thing on the planet.
And what must her husband be thinking??? I cannot understand why it would be ok with a husband, whose wife works with all men, for all those men to see his wife’s hoo-haa. What’s wrong with him?
One good thing though, if her hoo-haa is hanging out, it certainly takes your attention away from her face! W-O-O-F!
she screwed up and is screwed up. i suppose the folks at playboy are trying to ride the pro-military wave while it lasts.
Because nothing says “I’m an American” like showing off your hoo-haa!
I wonder if anybody even noticed she was wearing dogtags...
I wonder if she had it died to resemble the US flag.
We could take another (not so Red State) point-of-view here Moogirl. I don't know why she agreed to be in Playboy, but she had to know the risks that come along with it since it has happened before.
We could, for instance, assume that she might have did it for the money. Afterall, the military prolly doesn't pay that well, does it (even if there're two household incomes and both are military)? And raising two kids isn't cheap.
I can't recall what the amount is they get for modeling, but $10K might seem to be in the ballpark.
And not to defend Playboy, but they did feature some of the women who lost their jobs when Enron folded.
People usually have reasons for doing some things, and prolly not just the spotlight.
Ps: If it was in the shape of the flag, maybe it was upside down then.
Upside down to the magazine reader or herself? Either way, is that a huge no-no like hanging the real flag upside down?
Hanging the flag used to be a sign of protest or embarrassment I thought (back in the Viet Nam days). So it's not always a no-no; sometimes a form of speech.
And Playboy, well, they still have some good articles like this on Lockheed, one of the principal war profiteers and foremost corporations of the military industrial complex.
Y'know, corporate welfare recipient.
Yeah, yeah, Alex. We know you read Playboy for the articles.
And hanging the flag upside down used to be a form of S.O.S., a distress signal, if you will. I think it changed from a distress signal to a form of protest with Vietnam. There have been so many times in the past 6 years I’ve wanted to hang my flag upside down, but I was always afraid someone would send the police thinking something was wrong. And then there’s a real good chance that the people in this little hick town would burn the house down if I did.
Either that or they’d just think I was an idiot who didn’t know how to hang her flag.
She's not a Soldier. She's an Airman.
Say Anything has the scanned playboy article. I disagree as to her looks, especially for a mother of two.
I can't come up with a single legal basis for action against her, unless there's something about misuse of the uniform, which would be an Article 15 slap on the wrist at best.
I gotta admit there is something amusing about a grown woman calling female genitalia hoo haa. ;)
And as far as Playboy, about the only thing worth opening the magazine for these days has been the jokes. And I haven't read them in a long while. They haven't changed with the times and they are considerably tame compared to what's out there today. It's almost like their market is the college freshman.
And Hef is long past due to remove his wrinkly old self from the spotlight.
Heeey don’t knock the hoo-haa, Alex. Just trying to be non-offensive. Tell me what word you’d prefer and we’ll go with that! Lol
RTO, I guess realistically she’s not a soldier, but in a time of war, wouldn’t it be the courteous thing to do call all military personnel “soldiers”? Technically, I’m sure this is incorrect though.
And OMG, look UP, dear man! Bring your eyes UP from the Silicone Mountains to the FACE! She should have spent less money on her boobs (how’s that, Alex) and more on her face. But alas, I guess you just proved the point that if you have giant, fake ta-tas (Alex?), it doesn’t really matter what your face looks like.
I went to one of the links provided by Say Anything (link below) and she didn’t get any better looking. Regardless, no man under her command will ever see her as anything other than T&A now, and that can’t be good for the military. How about “conduct unbecoming”? Can’t that get her kicked out?
Slideshow
Well, I wouldn't want to be called Airman, in any event, but try calling a Sailor or a Marine, Soldier, and you'll get corrected.
These words, are all capitalized, as well.
"Conduct Unbecoming...an Officer." She's an NCO.
lol You are such a wealth of information, RTO! So the only person who should be called a soldier is someone who is actually in combat? Why don’t Sailors or Marines want to be called soldiers? Is that a derogatory term?
I'm taking the other side of this. I dislike Playboy and all mags of the type. They make objects of women, indeed. Dislike pageants too. But, having said all that, I can't help but wonder if it had been a male airman (or soldier or sailor or whatthefuckever) would this have been a big deal? Is it just because it's a female? I see no reason why she or any other member of the military shouldn't be able to pose for any magazine unless the magazine promotes something illegal. And why do you think she's a ho'. Women have got to get away from this crap of judging other women as sluts. It's left over from repressive times. There's nothing says she can't pose for a skin rag and still be a killing machine.
I don’t know, Cait. It all has to do with respect. You can pose nekked, or you can have respect. But you can’t do both. Right or wrong, it’s just the way it is.
I was never a great lover of women posing nude, or doing porn of any type. I think it’s degrading. What really gets my hackles up is when they then expect to be respected after doing so. No one is going to respect you after you’ve done porn. They just aren’t. I would imagine that in this girl’s position, it’s probably pretty important that the men she works with respect her. She trains airmen! Does anybody really think that any of these young men are going to take her seriously after seeing her in all her glory, even if she CAN kick their ass? Women have had to fight so hard to gain any ground in the military and to be taken seriously. I would be interested to know how they all feel about it. I’d bet they’re none too pleased.
I would imagine you’re right; a male in the military might have gotten away with it a little easier. However, I seem to remember a couple years ago that several pilots from a well-known outfit posed nude for a gay website and got in a lot of trouble. Probably had more to do with them being gay than it did with them being nude though.
Moogirl, I'm looking for my Al Bundy Guide to Anatomy.
Will report back when I find it. ;)
I'll have to admit that I think it takes a lot of courage to pose naked and have them published.
Airman is a title for all those in the Air Force just as Sailor is for those in the Navy and Soldier is for the Army, since it's a different branch it's name.
I was stationed at Lackland for my training and the ability of those doing the job is not dependent on whether or not they have posed nude. It's how well they can do the job.
I am surprised since when I was a photographer I had a lot more respect for the art, but then I did a lot more modeling portfolios and portraits. So I firmly disagree that you lose any respect by posing nude.
But she should've known that it was trouble since it has happened before when people in the military posed for Playboy. It wasn't Playboy's fault they got in trouble, but she should've taken that into consideration.
I do agree it's a double standard, both the one the Air Force makes and the one that Moogirl is making, it's going off a false assumption.
No. The only people you call Soldier is someone in the Army.
Air Force--Airman
Navy--Sailor
Marine--Marine
It's a service identity thing. Lots of nicknames too:
Soldier: Dogface, Grunt, Crunchy (non-armor troops).
Navy: Squid, Swabbie
Air Force: Zoomie
Marine: Jarhead, Leatherneck, Gyrine
Most of those started as derogatory nicknames born in the other services. We've all adopted them in good humor over the years.
Joke: The Army finally persuaded the Navy to stop calling Marines, Jarheads. After many years of research, experimentation and demonstrations for the Navy's benefit, we were finally able to convince the Navy that it is possible to put things into a jar.
That's how a typical family get together goes for me. I'm a Soldier, my brother is a Sailor and Dad's a Marine.
I had no idea, learn something new every day. I’ve been wrong, in that I call anyone in the military a soldier. Ok, so I don’t guess they’re all “troops” either then. I’m assuming that a group of each branch would be called something different?
So when I’m writing, and I want to mention the “troops”, all branches, what do I call them if not soldiers?
Troop has two meanings. It is a generic term for any one serviceman, without regard to branch, so your usage of troop has been correct.
Troop can also refer to a Cavalry element, the equivalent of an Infantry Company or an Artillery Battery.
3 or more Troops is a Squadron (Battalion). 3 or more Squadrons is a Regiment (Brigade). The difference here, in writing, is that troop as an individual is lower case, while Troop as a Cavalry unit is capitalized.
A point: Considering that you don't know how a standard Infantry platoon operates and is organized, I'm thinking that your estimation of the female experience in the military might not be so well informed.
The picture painted so far doesn't square with my experience anyway.
I only know what I’ve read, so yes, it’s might be considered limited. I just know women have had to fight hard to get as far as they have in the military. Women have not always been exactly welcome in the ranks.
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