I have feeling both US army and civiian authority fail this poor lady
No, she didn’t plan properly. She is required to have a “Family Care Plan” for just this type of situation. Her failure to plan is not the Army’s fault.
If she is incapable of serving, she needs to be separated from the service. Another servicemember will be forced to take her place in the rotation possibly cutting short their time stateside with family and loved ones.
She is placing a burden on other members with her inability to fulfill her commitment.
Birth control would have been an option as well. If she wanted to start a family, she should have waited until she was no longer in the rotation or out of the service.
I saw similar prior to our deployment to the Gulf in ‘90 and I’m not very sympathetic. Another had to take their place.
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I don’t see where anyone failed her. She chose to get pregnant and now she chooses not to honor her contract to the Army. She has known for some time that she would be deployed. Just deciding not to show up is inexcusable. I think she and her mom got together and decided this was a way not to be deployed. We had one show up at Ft Benning last year with her two kids claiming she couldn’t deploy because daddy worked long hours. Get it in the media and every softie will be screaming, “Let the mommy go home, poor mommy.” Never mind the military now has to send someone else.
When she had the child, she was required to put together a child care plan in case she was deployed. How does her failure to make an effective and workable plan mean that the Army and/or civilian government has failed her?
She swore an oath, then reneged on it.
Wrong! This 'poor lady' failed her country and the Army by getting pregnant out of wedlock while on active duty. I hope she gets a dishonorable discharge and the boot.