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I do not understand. I do not see where the article suggests that all "real men" are in the armed forces.

Apparently "real men" can't be iPhone users. Good to know.

:)

Back in AF, pilots in training would be obsessed with their iPhones playing X-Plane. It actually is a fantastic simulator considering that many of these pilots could very possibly be flying your commercial jet someday :) My buddy who went the cargo AF pilot route is a heavy iPhone user, but I guess the rest of the military doesn't consider the AF a real branch and call it the "Air Farce." The AF is going towards the UAV route, so pilots in the service are less and less.

I like one of the comments over there:

>Wrong on so many levels. Primarily the assumption that real men shoot third world peasants in the face for pay.

...so third world girls have the chance to go to school.

Link bait headline distracts from content of article, as usual.

(As a pacifist I wouldn't contribute to this project, but your comment doesn't really address the substance of the article, which is very interesting and makes some interesting statements about the sort of smartphone technology being used in warfare.)

Or at least, being a trained killer seems to imply that you're a real man.