I am NOT going here ....
As Chris Rock said, "If you call your grandma 'Mom', and your mom 'Pam', you goin' to jail..."
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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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Or instead just don’t let them deploy at all. . . .but wait. . .that would put undue hardship on males in service (and their wives and children) as those men take up the slack for the single moms. So, the men that are responsible are now double-tapped to not only look out for their own family, but for the single mom, too. But hey, the military is supposed to be a social welfare child-care agency, anyway. . .this going to war stuff is sooo dated.
Single mothers are required, required by regulation to have a plan when it comes to deployment. No exceptions.
The “simply avoid” comment was uncalled for attack against all men.
Yes, you are correct.
Well the Army owns you when you are enlisted and you might want to think ahead before getting pregnant when serving! Now when she is caught she could go to the brig and the kid directly to fostercare.
Why horonable? After shehas went AWOL I’d think a general discharge would be more appropriate?
How many of “these things” do you supposed are planned?
;-)
Sometimes exposure takes, and sometimes it doesn’t.
I’m sorry he didnt’t get to go, but I was referring more to people that have to cover for women like her. Women Marines get away with this kind of stuff all the time. They can just keep getting pregnant and never have the responsibilities (PFT’s, deployments, etc) that my husband and others do. I don’t feel it’s right. It makes me sound like a child to rant about it not being fair, I know, but he goes so much. This last deployment was really bad, both for him and for our family, but we did what we were required to do. She should have to do the same. If not, then she should not be in the Army. Period.
When both parents are soldiers, it gets sticky.
No sympathy. It is not the military's responsibility to provide daycare for unwed mothers. These women wanted combat duty, equal treatment' etc. The slut got herself into this situation. Discharge her from the Army.
All of these women in the military, and the rest of the men are hiding behind their skirts. I've never agreed with the concept of women in the military, except in auxilliary positions. All due respect goes to them, but it's totally unnecessary for women to be fighting the battles men should be fighting.
“What the hell is this woman doing in the Army?”
One of the main reasons I oppose women in the military. Women get pregnant. They just do.
Not only does it keep them from being battle ready in many instances -
the children really suffer.
I was doing PT up until the births...I came back from c-sections and PT’d and fulfilled all of my obligations right along with the others. It wasn’t easy, but what is?
People who are going to milk a system are going to milk any system. Good soldiers are good soldiers, and their careers show that.
A young unmarried childless man from our church joined the Marine reserves just before we went to Afghanistan/Iraq. He was never deployed anywhere. He was in the reserves for five years, never saw action. Nothing wrong with him, either.
Meanwhile I read of National Guard troops etc. doing two, three, four tours of duty and they aren’t even supposed to have to go overseas.
It was political correctness that got them there when all the arguments against women in combat warned of such things..............Now let the dad take care of the child.
Single mothers are required by regulation to have a child care plan. If hers fell through - or if she failed to have one - she should receive the general discharge she has waiting for her.
If she survives the jeopardy of a bad-conduct discharge and/or jail time for going AWOL, of course.
I am NOT going here ....
As Chris Rock said, "If you call your grandma 'Mom', and your mom 'Pam', you goin' to jail..."
The GI Bill should not be a freebie for any woman who uses getting pregnant as a reason to leave the military before their contractual ETS (Exit-The_Service) date.
Bush’s fault?
Roger that - and thank you for your service!
I have no doubt that there are women who are perfectly capable of performing any duty handed to them. The question is, "IS THAT WHAT'S BEST FOR THE UNIT?" After all, the military isn't an "old boys club." It's an organization where people will die and wars will be lost because of a lack of preparedness. The old saying "for the want of a nail, the war was lost" is absolutely true. People like Schroeder and her ilk hate the military for what it is, but see the military as something with which to experiment. And those experiments cost lives!
Mark
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