Posted on 11/15/2009 4:28:16 PM PST by Lorianne
The U.S. Army is dealing with an emotional and complicated case involving an Oakland woman. She's a single mother, scheduled to be deployed to Afghanistan, even though she has no one to care for her 11-month-old baby.
The woman is a 21-years-old single mom, who was almost on her way to Afghanistan. However, she is not the only one. A report released last month says 30,000 single mothers have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11.
For now 11-month-old Kamani Hutchinson is being cared for by his grandmother, Angelique Hughes of Oakland. A few days ago she flew to Savannah, Georgia after learning the Army had put Kamani in Child Protective Services.
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>> involving an Oakland woman
Armed with that tidbit, I’m pretty sure I can fill in the rest of the details.
Probably chose to get pregnant with the hope of avoiding deployment, but the attempt did not work?
This can also happen to men who get custody of the child/children and then are deployed.
A 21 y.o. single mother, and she enlisted in the military because....????? Where is the father? Seems the logical solution would be for the baby to live with daddy while mommy’s in the war. (brave new world indeed)
"A report released last month says 30,000 single mothers have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11."
She was a good servicemember and served her tour. She never had to deploy, but she has a strong family that I'm sure would have been there for her. That's not always the case, though.
Today, she has her college, married a great guy and is getting on with life.
Is the same type of PC crap that got 13+1 killed in Ft Hood?
Indeed. I'm sure all the details that show how the mom, Alexis Hutchinson, was negligent or just too lazy to follow standard pre-deployment procedures in having a workable family care plan and keeping her chain of command updated on her current situation after her unworkable plan fell apart have been ommitted so that we can make the Army look cold and uncaring.
Common sense has been outlawed. You will have to report for re-education.
I am NOT going here ....
Not again.
Things happen, birth control doesn't always work. So what are you going to do?
My nephew had to have a plan while he was serving active duty and he was a single father with sole custody. The plan was my sister, the children's grandmother. Specialist Hutchinson had a plan, but her mother couldn't handle it all.
This is a very complicated situation that needs to have a solution that doesn't encourage these young parents to go AWOL nor to get pregnant to get out of deployment.
What could the command be thinking, by allowing someone like this in the army? I guess its just PC thinking or something.
Army personnel should be people who can be deployed anywhere in a flash- and who can support their dependents on what the military pays.
That’s why, traditionally, young single men without dependents fill the lower ranks in the military.
Women in the military another benchmark in political correctness . Let those with children serve state side only or discharge them at their request . I do believe women should be able to serve their country and many , many have served with distinction . I salute those patriotic souls .
I thought the Army boarded you out if you didn’t have a famliy care plan for your kids in case of deployment.
My single, unattached in anyway nephew has been in the Marines for 5 years and has not been deployed once. He is so furious about it he is getting out. My daughter is in the Air Force and was deployed within 11 months of graduation. He was quite jealous. Especially after he made fun of her joining the Air Force.
I agree. But just because a man is young and single, doesn’t necessarily mean he doesn’t have dependents.
My then-husband and I had been married three years and were told that I wouldn’t be able to have kids. With the knowledge of this, we enlisted together. Right out of basic training we got pregnant. When our daughter was 8 months old, we got pregnant, again. I think the Army agreed with my body.
I got out after my three years because of my motherhood.
Not all soldierettes with children planned it.
Yep. It is insidiously working its way into all aspects of American life. It will destroy this once great nation. Those children will be emotionally damaged, but, of course, that is what these marxists want--more dysfunctional, non-thinking Americans.
Young men who have dependents that can’t be supported on a buck private’s salary shouldn’t be accepted either for enlistment-whether they are single or married.
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