But have to tell you I am getting fed up with the troops having cameras and taking photo's and then posting on the web. It is just well abuse and you know perhaps we need to have one camera for the unit and if any troop is found with one or if the command finds photo's from anyone in their unit that there will be consequences. This is not your college frat party and silliness.
A small fact. Many Post's have topless bars nearby. Some are not banned for soldiers to patronize but there are many that are on the ban list. That if they are caught punishment will be had by the troops.
I know these guys are serving our country. I know that they miss their spouses, their sweethearts these establishments are legal. They can die for our country but cannot drink and now cannot frequent a website. Except this time I fall in line with the commanders this cannot continue for the morale of the troops.
Or any one of several thousand other things that hurts morale, brings dishonor to the military, etc., etc.
Who was it that said "we're here to defend democracy, not practice it?"
I think we need a link to the alledged photos to determine whether this is valid!!
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I concur with your thoughts on females on the front line/ in immediate peril (supply trains to the frontlines).
As for the smut being put out by a RARE number of armed forces members, the subjects of the photos, and the photographers should be subject to immediate DIShonorable discharge, and the webhosts subjected to the most stern, indeed draconian, penalties extant under CURRENT law.
Troop morale (let alone moral well-being) DEPENDS on aberrant behavior being NOT TOLERATED, no matter WHOM is the subject of photography.
The chicks didn't mind popping their tops, but never expected anyone to have a camera phone, and never heard of something called the internet.
Nothing against popping tops, mind you. But please spare me the "I'm shocked and humiliated" comments.
I don't mind them blowing off a little steam but, c'mon troops, keep it to yourselves, ok? Particularly in an Islamic country where it's considered radical thought just for women to expose their faces, things we Americans would assume are harmless can be taken entirely differently by the locals we are liberating.
And as for women and troop morale, it seems like *some* soldiers got a morale boost from this but I question if it serves the greater purpose. The mission must always come first.
I agree with you, there are lots of ways women can serve without being stationed at the front.
Not in Iraq. I'm not aware of soldiers outside the barbed wire drinking and patronizing topless bars in Iraq. Are you?
They can die for our country but cannot drink and now cannot frequent a website.
General Order #1 prohibits viewing pornography on government computers. I agree with this order. You make it sound as though it's a bad thing that servicemen can't view pornography on the Internet on government computers. Am I misunderstanding you?
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