Posted on 01/29/2016 9:02:01 AM PST by Olog-hai
As part of his commitment to build the military "force of the future," Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Thursday announced a series of "family-friendly" initiatives to attract and retain "the best America has to offer."
"We are not Google. We are not Walmart. We're war fighters. But that doesn't mean we should not be challenging ourselves just like the private sector," Carter told reporters at the Pentagon. [...]
The Defense Secretary outlined the following initiatives: [...] Making military workplaces more accommodating to women when they return from maternity leave: The focus here is to make it easier for new mothers to continue breast-feeding, if they choose to do that.
"To make the transition between maternity leave and returning to work for military mothers smoother, to enhance our mission effectiveness, and to comply with standards that apply to nearly every organization outside the military, I am requiring that a mother's room be made available at every facility with more than 50 women, which means the establishment of some 3,600 rooms across the country," Carter said. ...
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just one of the million stories in The Naked Service...
With a headline like the one above, the jokes just write themselves...
“Private, the enemy is approaching of the left flank - cover it now.”
“As soon as I stop lactating while I’m breastfeeding - you know the regulations Lt!”
I can see it now.
SHARP violations over this.
Yeah, saw it.
Falls under the “I don’t even” category.
Ain’t that the sad truth... General Staffs all over the world are laughing. Even Costa Rico, with no army, is feeling muy macho....
Toss in the bogus PTSD claims and soldiers even today can skirt (pun intended) out of duty.
So, I guess from here on a well constructed fox hole will not only have a grenade sump but a shelf for baby bottles/diapers/toys as well?
Now troops can bear breasts, but not bear arms. What a country!
I picked a bad time to be lactose intolerant....
And what duty will these "troops" be performing in which they can drag along a baby to suckle?
There are some people in leadership positions that need to be removed from leadership positions.
DOD Will Allow Troops On Duty to Breastfeed.
Kinda makes me want to enlist.
Nope women don’t have special needs. No we will treat them just like equal, just like the men.
Daycare, dress-up homoparty, sex change service, and anti-Christian hostile environment.
You owe me a keyboard, I took the cover off to clean it and look what you did!!!!!
I don’t blame them, those MRE’s are nasty. Uh, oh, wait. Never mind
There are some people in leadership positions that need to be removed from leadership positions.
Then they need to remove their head from their @sses
Course, if this is the army one may have to fight during the 2nd Revolution, I’d say we have damn good odds /s...I wish.
buttttttt sir
we were not doing anything.....
I was just breastfeeding off a fellow soldier...
IS THIS A US ARMY ATTEMPT TO CUT FEEDING COSTS...
WOMEN ARE NOW EXPECTED TO BREASTFEED FELLOW TROOPS....
OK
SIGN ME UP
I’S HUNGRY
Decimating and degrading the military
It used be that when the RABBIT diode Her military did too, and still should be.
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