One flaw - more PC


The documentary captivated me. Informative and emotional, it hits you with the stories of these brave young soldiers and Marines and how they go about their business.

One flaw - it seems Mike Boettcher couldn't help himself. There's a certain political correctness that permeates our society and that is, in order to lift women up as being the equals to men in almost any capacity, we have to denigrate men.

Did Mike really mean to imply incompetence of those Medevac crews that are primarily populated with men by telling us all that the mostly female crew of the Medevac crew he interviewed "put the male crews to shame". "To shame"? Seriously? All the Medevac crews that save lives, put themselves in harm's way to do as much, those who have actually been killed in the line of duty, are no better than "shameful" at their jobs compared to these women? Insulting.

We are at a curious period in our society where the only way to build women up is at the expense of men. And, whether intentional or not, that's what Mike does.

C'mon. Can't you give these women their due without denigrating the male-dominated Medevac crews?

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I agree..but by Hollywood standards that is minimal PC

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I believe he meant that they "put male units to shame" differently than how you take it. Most medivac crews are all males. Not every medivac crew is created equally. Some of them are terrible. Just saying. Some of them are average, some good, and some fabulous. I believe what he meant by that, is that the all female crew could compete with the best of the male units. They put some of the all male units to shame, meaning that their sex did not play a role in how they performed their job, and they were one of the better crews.

That's it.

Just speaking from personal experience talking to Mike, and spending time with him in Afghanistan, as well as spending time with multiple medivac crews. That's the impression I got.

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Yeah, it's really annoying how people like him are so quick to take a *beep* on men just to please feminists.

In reality that female team is probably average at best but you have to tout them as the absolute best or else you're labelled a misogynistic pig.

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