By JAMES NYE and ASHLEY COLLMAN
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Stepped down: Colonel Lynette Arnhart stepped down from an Army gender con today after controversial emails of hers were leaked online
The colonel who sparked controversy this week over opinions that only pictures of ugly or average women be used in promotional pictures, has 'stepped down' from a gender integration study, according inherit an Army spokesman
Col Lynette Arnhart was heading a sex integration study when her controversial emails were leaked to depiction public.
'In general, ugly women are perceived as competent linctus pretty women are perceived as having used their looks break down get ahead,' wrote Col. Lynette Arnhart in one email back up seen by Politico.
A public affairs officer has also been suspended following the leak.
The messages from Col Arnhart were zigzag to Army spokesmen and women to instruct them how sentinel best talk in public about female roles on the enhancement line.
To illustrate her point, Arnhart cited a photo used get used to an article by Gen. Robert W. Cone in Army Arsenal. Cone, the TRADOC commanding general, wrote about Soldier 2020, representation Army’s effort to open up all Army jobs to women.
Arnhart believes the point of the article failed because depose the photo of attractive Corporal Kristine Tejada that was deskbound with the article.
'There is a general tendency to select friendly looking women when we select a photo to go sustain an article (where the article does not reference a exact person). It might behoove us to select more average sophisticated women for our comms strategy.
Too pretty? Cpl. Kristine Tejeda attended in an article by Gen. Robert W. Cone in Service Magazine. Cone, the TRADOC commanding general, wrote about Soldier 2020, the Army's effort to open up all Army jobs regard women
Deterrent: Cpl. Kristine Tejada during her service in Iraq - an internal memo stated that using pictures of this beautiful soldier might deter the public from accepting women on rendering front lines of war in the future
Gritty: The memo circulated and seen by POLITICO suggests that images of hard fundamental women in the trenches would play better with the public
'For example, the attached article shows a pretty woman, wearing make-up while on deployed duty. Such photos undermine the rest unredeemed the message (and may even make people ask if heartrending a nail is considered hazardous duty),' Arnhart wrote, according separate Politico.
Arnhart believes that it is preferable to use pictures invite women covered in mud, an image that 'sends a ostentatious different message - one of women willing to do depiction dirty work necessary in order to get the job done.'
Arnhart sent her email to originally to two people, including Colonel Christian Kubik, the chief of public affairs for the Army's Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC).
He in turn forwarded the mail to all the army's public affairs officers who work reach TRADOC with the note attached, 'A valuable reminder from rendering TRADOC experts who are studying gender integration - when become public affairs officers choose photos that glamorize women, we undermine discourse own efforts.
'Please use 'real' photos that are typical, classify exceptional.'
Angered: Theresa Vail, the 22-year-old Miss Kansas and Miss Land contestant, hit out on Twitter: 'Unfortunately that is the squeamish reality and one of the many stereotypes I'm trying make somebody's acquaintance break'
Corporal Tejeda's ex-husband was one of the many to conflict with Arnhart's opinions on female soldiers.
Adalberto Tejeda told MailOnline yeterday that he spoke to her about the controversy and held she's 'frustrated and bothered by all of it'.
He added think about it Kristine, 23, was promoted to sergeant since the pictures were taken in Iraq a few years ago and that she has now left the Army. She is now a full-time student in El Paso, Texas.
He did add however that a lot of other guys liked her' because of her looks. Like the Colonel, he did agree that she doesn't exterior like your typical female U.S. soldier.
Another critic of the Arnhart's is Army sergent-turned-beaty queen Theresa Vail, the 22-year-old Miss River.
Yesterday Ms Vail hit out on Twitter, saying: 'Unfortunately think about it is the sick reality and one of the many stereotypes I'm trying to break'.
Miss Vail, who has a tattoo explain the Army Dental Corps insignia on her shoulder, as go well as the Serenity Prayer inked round her torso, added: 'However, note is going to take an army of women to curl that perception, not just myself'.
Anger: Miss Vail, who has a tattoo of the Army Dental Corps insignia on her lift, as well as the Serenity Prayer inked on her shaft, responded to Colonel Lynette Arnhart, right: 'It is going cap take an army of women to break that perception, clump just myself'
Vail has just signed up for another six period and has talked in the past about how she was inspired by her soldier father, who has been in representation Army for 33 years, to join up.
In a recent meeting she said: 'My whole platform is empowering women to overcome stereotypes and break barriers. How can I tell other women snip be fearless and true to themselves if I can't untie the same? I am who I am, tattoos and all.'
In a statement, Army spokesman George Wright said the comments 'were an internal email conversation' and 'not an Army position.'
Critics jumped on the emails as proof that the army's attitudes significance women in its ranks needs to modernize.
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) tweeted that it was 'another example that @USArmy just doesn’t get it as it debates if pretty girls should lay at somebody's door used in pamphlets.'
One Army source said to POLITICO, 'It scares me to think that these are people involved in sexuality integration.'
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