And John has no fucking clue just how ferociously female soldiers who were computer literate guarded their positions. I've seen fucking adult men practically reduced to tears by some lowly female Private who caught that man touching her computer keyboard and she suddenly turned into goddamn Medusa. Being computer literate in the 80's was pretty rare (Not that honest and true woman John would know) and any female who had that skillset protected her domain like a goddamn she-dragon and ruled over the Orderly Room with a fucking iron fist.
Contrary to John's ignorant fucking tweet, the women who knew how to use the computers in the Army in the 1980's weren't shy retiring 1940's clerical pool submissive does, they were goddamn mean as fuck, knew they had power because of their skillset, and would flat out fuck your shit up.
Approaching those women to get your paperwork fixed was akin to a pauper standing in front of the Pope with his hat in his hand hoping that you could get your pay fixed before the bank repossessed your kid's eyeballs or some shit.
And back when I first showed up with a shaved head and deer in the headlight look, computers were fucking MASSIVE. You could hide Anne Frank in one of those old dot-matrix printers that sounded like a screaming demon when they printed. The fucking monochrome (green or amber) monitors weighed more than a fucking TV of the same size, even the goddamn keyboards were built like they expected you to fight off the Viet Cong with them. By the time I left, most Orderly Rooms had a shitload of Dell or Compaq computers everywhere.
And John acts like female troops who were computer literate didn't contribute to anything more that code-breaking or cryptography? EAT A DICK, JOHN! There was a program, I don't remember the name of it, where you could write a computer program, have your chain of command submit it, and if the DoA or DoD decided to use it, you got a nice chunk of change. First Cavalry Division used a piece of software for BMI and body fat computation that was written by someone in my batallion. Because computers were suddenly everywhere, lots of career minded female soldiers learned to do hardware repair, software troubleshooting, learned to use Windows for Workgroups like crazy, not to mention that ugly as fuck tree-based OS the Army tried to shove up everyone's ass.
To reduce the part that female troops (and male troops) played in the proliferation of computer systems in the 80's and early 90's is goddamn insulting. For once the military didn't have it's head in its ass and anyone who was computer literate was suddenly giving classes to officers and senior NCO's. Surprise, surprise, it was younger men and women who had been exposed to computers and trying to get into the prom queen's panties while the senior ranks had been killing gooks and murdering Thia hookers who were teaching classes.
Goddamn, his ignorant fucking blathering has pissed me off this morning.