Posted on 02/28/2009 3:44:46 PM PST by Justaham
DAVIDSON, N.C. - When Lisa Pagan reports for duty Sunday, four long years after she was honorably discharged from the Army, she will arrive with more than her old uniform. She is bringing her kids, too.
"I have to bring them with me," she said. "I don't have a choice."
She'll get BAQ at W/Dependent rates and she'll have to find a place to keep them during work hours. If she deploys she'll have to execute her family care plan.
“Individual Ready Reserve”
How can we take a newspaper seriously when they can’t even get an acronym it takes 15 seconds to look up on google right.
(IRR is inactive ready reserve, btw)
If she was discharged and cannot serve why is she reporting for duty ?
Which means she has no family care plan meaning she is discharged. General Patton didn’t have to put up with this, but now we have the volunteer “professional” force which is so much better.
Wasn’t this precise scenario one of the stronger arguments against allowing women to join the Army?
If it wasnt it should have been.
This couple looks like a pair of snot-nosed putzes to me.
Having open ended no time restraint enlistment contracts is not healthy for the servicemember nor our military in general. The policy needs to be ended. If she joined in 2002 then 2008 should have been when she recieved a DC and the end of any and all including future obligations.
Actually, in the Army, it is Individual Ready Reserve. :)
Yes, it was 2007 so they've known for over a year. Sorry, but in cases like this where we all know she's just being a big whiny, the military should call social services. Of course her commander wouldn't get past, "Hello, this is..." before she came clean with a viable family care plan.
She has time on her enlistement contract. She had to serve so many years on active duty and upon release from active duty if one still has contractual time on the enlistment, they can go into a reserve unit that does the weekend drills or the IRR. In either case they are subject to recall. It is of interest to note, that while this does not happen often, those who are retired from the service may also be subject to recall.
Call me old fashioned but I would prefer that women especially mothers didn’t serve in our military. Of course, if it was up to me (which I am sufficiently aware that it is not), I would prefer that women just stayed home barefoot and pregnant. LOL!
First of all let me say “not guilty”.
Second, she’s going to be very surprised the the base commander calls Child Protective Services and they haul her kids off to foster care.
Third, I believe when you serve your active time that should be it. I served 4 then had 2 inactive. I could have been called back but, luckily, I wasn’t. And I wouldn’t have liked it had I been.
Fourth, it should be like it used to be. Get pregnant-get discharged. If the army wanted you to have a kid it would have issued one.
They may be putzes for all I know but you cant judge that by looking at them. He may have had a whole year to find a job but in the current state of the economy, he may be lucky just to keep the one he has much less find another one. There are unemployed people who have been looking for work longer than that.
I’m not literally saying “They physically look like/resemble putzes.” I’m saying that they MUST have an alternative to taking two small children to Iraq. This is a grandstanding ploy and no mistake.
Same thing in the Marine Corps.
” I don’t have a choice”
oh yes you do, sweeetheart. The army will make it for you.
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