Entering a classroom at MCAS, ( Marine Corps Air Station)  Yuma , Ariz. , a female Marine captain encountered a clearly apathetic audience.  She was selected to provide a full hour's instruction in Iraqi electronic warfare capabilities to 150 Marine aviators who showed by their body language deep skepticism about her ability to teach war fighting skills to an all-male class of Marine Fighter Pilots. 

    She began by noting that her voice had just been tested to see if it was suitable for some new corkpit recorder messages for Marine aircraft.  Unfortunately she had not been selected to be the new "b***hing Betty", but it was only fair to warn the audience, however, that an analysis of her voice pattern revealed that her particular voice had a tendency to lull to sleep any male homosexual within earshot. 

    The assembled officers shot upright in their chairs and 150 sets of eyes were wide open and locked on her and stayed that way for the rest of the period.


Colonel W. Hays Parks , U. S. Marine Corps Reserve