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Gen. Helms and the Senator's 'Hold'
h/t IstapunditLt. Gen. Susan Helms is a pioneering woman who finds her career stalled because of a war on mena political campaign against sexual assault in the military that shows signs of becoming an effort to criminalize male sexuality. Gen. Helms is a 1980 graduate of the Air Force Academy who became an astronaut in 1990. She was a crewman on four space-shuttle missions and a passenger on two, traveling to the International Space Station and back 5½ months later. Two days after arriving at the station in 2001, she, along with fellow astronaut Jim Voss, conducted history's longest spacewalk8 hours, 56 minutesto work on a docking device. In March, President Obama nominated Gen. Helms to serve as vice commander of the Air Force Space Command. But Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat who sits on the Armed Services Committee, has placed a "permanent hold" on the nomination. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-06-19 |
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