Arizona Veterans' Services director resigns

Unfortunately, this deplorable attitude is not just isolated to a few. I resigned from an organization over the very same comment made about females serving this country made in front of a group with no one but my husband speaking up against such a pathetic attitude toward women.

Arizona Veterans' Services director resigns
Lindsey Collom
Republic
AZ Cental
Wed Apr 3, 2013

The director of the Arizona Department of Veterans’ Services abruptly resigned over his hiring of a former state legislator whose recent comments about female troops serving on the front lines have inflamed veterans groups.

A spokesman for Gov. Jan Brewer said Wednesday that Joey Strickland disobeyed a direct order when he hired former Rep. Terri Proud, R-Tucson, who was quoted this week as questioning a woman’s fitness for combat during menstruation.

Strickland’s office had hired Proud in March to start work this month as his female-veterans convention coordinator, an offer that was rescinded Wednesday.

Brewer’s spokesman, Matthew Benson, said Strickland had erred in hiring Proud after he “was given strict instructions not to.” Strickland, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, first inquired about hiring Proud about a year ago when she was still serving in the state Legislature, and he was told not to do so. Benson declined to give a reason for that instruction.

“He chose to hire this individual anyway and, unfortunately, that person’s judgment was on display this week with some exceptionally ill-chosen public remarks regarding women in the military,” Benson said. “Of all people, Colonel Strickland should understand what it means to disobey a direct order, and, unfortunately, that’s why we are where we are today.”
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