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DOD Will Allow Troops On Duty to Breastfeed
Cybercast News Service ^ | January 29, 2016 | 8:13 AM EST | Susan Jones

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. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: ashcarter; breastfeeding; dod; forceofthefuture; hobbling; mothersroom; obama; usmilitary
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To: Covenantor

just one of the million stories in The Naked Service...

With a headline like the one above, the jokes just write themselves...


41 posted on 01/29/2016 9:33:33 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: Olog-hai

“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!”


42 posted on 01/29/2016 9:34:08 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Covenantor

I can see it now.
SHARP violations over this.


43 posted on 01/29/2016 9:37:08 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Army Air Corps

Yeah, saw it.
Falls under the “I don’t even” category.


44 posted on 01/29/2016 9:38:02 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: IrishBrigade

Ain’t that the sad truth... General Staffs all over the world are laughing. Even Costa Rico, with no army, is feeling muy macho....


45 posted on 01/29/2016 9:40:55 AM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled..e.by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern - Chesterton)
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To: bgill

Toss in the bogus PTSD claims and soldiers even today can skirt (pun intended) out of duty.


46 posted on 01/29/2016 9:41:05 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Olog-hai

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?


47 posted on 01/29/2016 9:42:06 AM PST by Vesparado (The American people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard --- HL Mencken)
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To: Olog-hai

Now troops can bear breasts, but not bear arms. What a country!


48 posted on 01/29/2016 9:45:31 AM PST by antidisestablishment (If Washington was judged with the same standard as Sodom, it would not exist.)
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To: Olog-hai

I picked a bad time to be lactose intolerant....


49 posted on 01/29/2016 9:46:50 AM PST by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: Olog-hai
DOD Will Allow Troops On Duty to Breastfeed

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.

50 posted on 01/29/2016 9:52:14 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Olog-hai

DOD Will Allow Troops On Duty to Breastfeed.
Kinda makes me want to enlist.


51 posted on 01/29/2016 9:52:59 AM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Olog-hai

Nope women don’t have special needs. No we will treat them just like equal, just like the men.


52 posted on 01/29/2016 10:03:31 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: biff

Daycare, dress-up homoparty, sex change service, and anti-Christian hostile environment.


53 posted on 01/29/2016 10:05:24 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

You owe me a keyboard, I took the cover off to clean it and look what you did!!!!!


54 posted on 01/29/2016 10:14:18 AM PST by biff
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To: Olog-hai

I don’t blame them, those MRE’s are nasty. Uh, oh, wait. Never mind


55 posted on 01/29/2016 11:21:38 AM PST by semaj (Audentes fortuna juvat: Fortune favors the bold. Be Bold FRiends.)
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To: DiogenesLamp

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.


56 posted on 01/29/2016 11:52:04 AM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: Olog-hai

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


57 posted on 01/29/2016 3:22:13 PM PST by zzwhale (acts of treason)
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To: Olog-hai

Decimating and degrading the military


58 posted on 02/27/2016 3:25:57 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Olog-hai

It used be that when the RABBIT diode Her military did too, and still should be.


59 posted on 05/15/2016 11:35:53 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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