[elpadre]

I was in a combat arms school in the 50’s and received a call from my mother that she was in the hospital 200 miles away with my wife who was about to deliver our first. The CO said the rule is that child birth is not an emergency and that he would give me a weekend pass - four days later.

My reply, “Yes, Sir! - Thank you, Sir!”

[newzjunkey]

There's very little cultural resemblance between the military of 2013 and 1955 just as there was between then and 1898.

Up thread someone complains about "promoting vice" in the form of this leave as if the sainted military didn't do sex ed training films in the early 20th century or arrange the "services" of woman. Or Tail Hook or any number of things. Such selective outrage falls on deaf ears.