The Air Force Vs. Playboy
January 15, 2007 by Joseph Matthews
Filed under Rants
So the news is all abuzz about an Air Force Staff Sergeant, a hottie by the name of Michelle Manhart (one of the best real-life porno names I’ve ever heard), who posed nude for Playboy, and then was promptly relieved of duty.
(On a side note, I heard she had a MySpace page up with lots of other photos, but it was getting slammed, so MySpace either took it down, or she did. One of the two. That’s a shame, I would have liked to have seen it. Most likely a lot of sick-o’s were contacting her with lewd propositions.)
For those of you who don’t know what’s up, check it out…
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) — 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.
Is it just me, or isn’t this the most RETARDED thing you’ve ever heard of?
It’s the freakin’ MILITARY! Guys are going out and putting their lives on the line! This is one of the best recruting tools I’ve ever seen for the armed forces! “Hey, check it out, we got hotties working for us! Come kill shit to impress them!”
I gotta admit, if I was over in Iraq right now, I’d want a few chicks who looked like Manhart over there. Lord knows the military isn’t teeming with hotties. Why not encourage it?
I am fully in support of Michelle Manhart in this debackle. Where’s Clinton when you need him? You know he wouldn’t put up with these kind of shenanegans.
This is not the first time that something like this has happened. Back in 1980 Playboy did a “Women of The Military” pictorial that had women from all the branches of the military and the one from the Marine Corps ended up getting discharged from the Marine Corps over posing for the pictorial. She was a sergeant as well as I recall.
I remember it well because the female Marine was one stationed at 29 Palms MCB,the same one I was at while going to communications tech school, and we used to see her around base. Alas..I was only 17 at the time and a lowly private just out of boot camp so I never had the nerve to approach her !