Her description of her "Division" comes from their website almost carbon copy (Bar mentioning the aircraft supported:
https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104462/air-force-global-strike-command/ ).
As for the book, I imagine this is the same Val/Sappho who we know and "Love", but it seems amusing that they still maintained their anon status by hiding behind the name "Valerie". I (at first edit) imagined this is due to this supposed "Anti-Trans" agenda in the military and so wanted to keep their real name out of it, Which would be a smart thing to do anyway (But this also seems weird if the rest of the people with entire sections and currently serve use their full names. I guess Val was only interesting for a single paragraph).
But considering it doesn't matter if she has this waiver, I think this is due to Sappho just being security conscious and doing everything and anything to keep her real life seperated from her trans self.. I'm wondering if this is due to some kind of shit with her parents (I think she mentioned them being abusive once, but likely another "Poor me" thing) where they will only have her in their life as long as she's "Presenting" as a male. This is devils-advocate defending and speculation but it is interesting to note absolutely little to no proper discussions revolving her family.
it's kind of funny to see a lolcow who dumps so much of their bullshit online but is still, for the most part, actually smart enough no to self-doxx
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Heartfelt personal accounts from transgender people fighting for the right to serve in the military “Prior to coming out as transgender I served the first several years of my career under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” hiding my sexual orientation out of the constant fear of expulsion. I then found...
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I believe this is going down the
Valerie Graw rabbithole again:
Withal, I'm glad you joined the Farms,
@I will find you, because I too am keenly interested in this person's military service.
Personally, I have high doubts as to what extent Sappho actually served.
Specifically, returning to this now infamous picture:
@Wheezy Asthmatic observed the absence of a nametape on his right breast, giving Sappho a golf clap for being smart enough to take it off before the photo.
Val taking off their name tape before taking a photo though was at least somewhat intelligent.
That's not quite accurate. Rather,
that uniform has probably never had a nametape on it. We know this because in Operational Camouflage Pattern's (OCP's: now the official battle uniform of the Army, Air Force, and Space Force), you can choose to have your nametape velcro'd on or sewn on. Whatever choice you make, it must match the tape indicating your branch on the left side (in Sappho's case, "U.S. Air Force" is sewn on):
Either Sappho professionally removed it with a threadripper for a photo, or the uniform simply never had a nametape on it (which is highly unusual - even in Basic Training the uniforms must have their names on it).
Similarly, above that "U.S. Air Force" patch should be a badge indicating one's Air Force Specialty Code (AFSC, or your "job"). Sappho has nothing above his, meaning he never graduated Technical School (which immediately succeeds basic training).
Furthermore, Sappho's hair is out of regulations for a male, exceeding 2 inches in bulk at the top and beginning to make contact with his ears, both forbidden branchwide according to
Air Force Instruction 36-2903.
As for what's censored in that red circle? Nothing should be there, typically. I can only imagine a proximity area badge attached to his collar, but that would be an unusually small badge (they're normally credit card sized).
By the time of his next military uniformed picture, Sappho has completely abandoned male dress and appearance standards and is now more closely following female standards, donning a pierced earlobe, polished nails, and flagrantly long hair.
Note that he's still out of standards even for a female here, given that his bangs are far too long (AFI 36-2903 forbids bangs long enough to obscure the eyes).
But even more tellingly, the fact that in his exceedingly short (by his own admission, fewer than two years) military career he somehow was able to switch from male appearance standards to female appearance standards is a massive abberation. That requires a court order: it's not something a Squadron Commander can merely wave his or her hand at to grant.
Either he attained a court order very quickly or he was never truly USAF and merely a member of some organization like Civil Air Patrol or Reserved Officers' Training Corps that doesn't care about such things and throws free uniforms at applicants.
en.wikipedia.org
www.airforcemag.com
