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Army Orders Soldiers to Wear Fake Breasts and 'Empathy' Bellies
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Posted on 02/16/2012 1:25:11 PM PST by Sub-Driver

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To: tgusa

The new Army, fags and pregnant chicks. What could go wrong?


61 posted on 02/16/2012 2:13:09 PM PST by EEGator
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To: baddog 219

Well, that just sucks for Japan and sounds like a fantastic opportunity for AAC.


62 posted on 02/16/2012 2:14:05 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Sub-Driver

Please tell me this is satire. If it is not, we are doomed. Either that or we need a revolution. But it’s satire, right? Right?


63 posted on 02/16/2012 2:15:38 PM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: brivette; Sub-Driver
there are no words...

I did think that this was The Onion, at first. Then I remembered that the (alleged) POTUS is, at best, a metrosexual, and that he shares time with the First Wookie, and I realized that we live in the Twilight Zone. So my initial words were along the lines of "GMAFB!" I would really and truly like to hear, uncensored, the R. Lee Ermey reaction to this.

64 posted on 02/16/2012 2:20:08 PM PST by Ancesthntr (Bibi to Odumbo: Its not going to happen.)
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To: EEGator

We are so far down the crapper that one Service proudly calls itself a ‘Global Force for Good’.

I used to think that was the Peace Corps, not the United States Navy.


65 posted on 02/16/2012 2:20:23 PM PST by tgusa (gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .......)
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To: diamond6
Men need to stand up and say “enough is enough”!!!!!

Maybe they will. Officers who order their men to do this sort of thing may get themselves "fragged."

66 posted on 02/16/2012 2:20:32 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Why should pregnant women serve in the military in the first place?

Oh, I quite agree that pregnant women have no business being in the military. But that's not really the question here. I have no idea about the context of why they're getting instruction on how to conduct classes for pregnant women. For all I know they'll be doing classes on post for soldier's wives or something. And while it's true that pregnant women soldiers have no place there, they -are- there and the instructors that conduct those fitness classes need to know what they are doing.

So back to the original point: that this exercise in the context of training new instructors about the realities of pregancy in fitness training-- isn't as absurd as the headline and first few sentences seems to suggest.

67 posted on 02/16/2012 2:22:50 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: Sub-Driver

Misleading headline. Give me a break. Not even close to what I thought it would be.


68 posted on 02/16/2012 2:22:50 PM PST by AlmaKing
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To: Fiji Hill
At first glance, I thought this was from the Onion.

I had to double check my calendar to make sure it wasn't April 1st.

69 posted on 02/16/2012 2:23:07 PM PST by Night Hides Not (My dream ticket for 2012 is John Galt & Dagny Taggart!)
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To: Sub-Driver

My thoughts exactly!! What are we becoming...


70 posted on 02/16/2012 2:25:13 PM PST by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; NYC GOP Chick; ...
ARE YOU EFFING KIDDING ME?!


71 posted on 02/16/2012 2:25:52 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Yorlik803

lol!


72 posted on 02/16/2012 2:26:35 PM PST by brivette
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To: USMCPOP

LMAO! YOU owe me another drink!!!!


73 posted on 02/16/2012 2:26:55 PM PST by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: Ramius

As a mom of many, I can say that this training is absurd. Absurd.


74 posted on 02/16/2012 2:27:54 PM PST by petitfour
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To: Sub-Driver

I’d just like to have everyone here try to imagine the following people engaged in wearing fake tits and a rubber belly to mimic a pregnant woman...more than that, try to imagine their reaction if you told them to do this:

George Washington
Ethan Allen
Francis Marion (the Swamp Fox of the Revolutionary War)
Andrew Jackson
Davy Crockett
Jim Bowie
Colonel Travis
Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
William Tecumsah Sherman
Ulysses S. Grant
Blackjack Pershing
Douglas MacArthur
George Patton
Chesty Puller
Chester Nimitz
William Halsey
Alvin York
Audie Murphy
Lee Marvin

Military heroes, all, and that is but a short list of those deserving of that honorable title.

Me, I think that I’d have refused the order. I have to believe that such is a violation of the military’s rules. Anyhow, I’d love to see the publicity of a court martial in which a soldier was being charged with failing to wear fake tits and a rubber belly.


75 posted on 02/16/2012 2:28:00 PM PST by Ancesthntr (Bibi to Odumbo: Its not going to happen.)
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To: Da Coyote
CW-II is coming

That might be the solution. CWII would probably not last nearly as long as CWI, since most of the country's servicemen and gun owners would be on the same side.

76 posted on 02/16/2012 2:29:31 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: brivette

Top down, bottom up, inside out.


77 posted on 02/16/2012 2:29:38 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: tgusa
We have to send soldiers to school to learn how to become FITNESS INSTRUCTORS?

Well, why not? Learning to be an instructor in -any- subject is very different from merely having the skill that is being taught. Being fit isn't all it takes to teach fitness. There's more about nutrition, biomechanics, sports medicine, leadership, and just plain presentation skills that someone needs if they're going to try to be an instructor.

78 posted on 02/16/2012 2:30:45 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: Ramius

Too late! We, the mob, already have this figgered out! Please step aside, and let us handle this! :-)


79 posted on 02/16/2012 2:30:45 PM PST by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: Sub-Driver
CAMP ZAMA, Japan – The Army is ordering its hardened combat veterans to wear fake breasts and empathy bellies so they can better understand how pregnant soldiers feel during physical training.

This week, 14 noncommissioned officers at Camp Zama took turns wearing the “pregnancy simulators” as they stretched, twisted and exercised during a three-day class that teaches them to serve as fitness instructors for pregnant soldiers and new mothers.

ROFL! I was BORN at Camp Zama! And now the military has noncoms wearing PREGNANCY simulators there?!

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but this is ridiculous!

LOL!

80 posted on 02/16/2012 2:33:53 PM PST by Talisker (He who commands, must obey.)
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