[Criminal Number 18F]

This is complete crap, but it's typical of the double standard. Women like this see the army as an alternative to welfare. She has kids she can't take care of, and it becomes the unit's problem.

Wonder what the troops picking up the slack for this faithless GI Jane are thinking?

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Dick Vomer]

Hey, women and men are the same.... doncha know nothing? She wants to be at the tip of the spear.... leading the way. I mean women and the men are the same...... no difference.

Most men get to QUIT and go home to take care of the kids when they FEEL like it. Well Hillary, NOW, hairy armpit women, and Pat Schroeder all say that women should be front line troops. You know that person you can count on in combat when the sh$t hits the fan. The type of person that would die trying to cover your back..... or die trying to save your ass.

Gee I heard about a bunch of Force Recon and Navy Seals opting out of some spec ops to go to their kid's soccer games. I mean that happens all the time....... I say let the Army be the "welfare" department of the Pentagon... just leave the Marines out of the PC quagmire.

[lepton]

This is complete crap, but it's typical of the double standard. Women like this see the army as an alternative to welfare. She has kids she can't take care of, and it becomes the unit's problem.

Given that the kids aren't biologically hers, and the judge gave her and her husband only a single option, I think that's a bit harsh a parenting judgement. I think women in the military do as you describe quite often, but I don't think it's entirely applicable here.

[ChemistCat]

The military sent my husband home from overseas when I had a miscarriage. They gave us a reassignment near family when our son was diagnosed with autism.

Men, too, benefit from humanitarian, family-friendly military policies. I think a huge part of the problem really is that we have a military that is top heavy with highly-trained, older people--who have families. They need to retain these people, so they need to accomodate the fact that they've made families. You can't run an army on 19 year old single guys anymore.

I don't think you're wrong in principle, but the reality is something else again. :sigh: