[cryptical]

Hutchinson now faces a number of charges. Sussman listed them as: "AWOL, missing movement, desertion, failing to have a family care plane and disobeying an officer."

It's the failure to have a family care plan that got her in the rest of the trouble. Maybe they ought to put unmarried female personnel on mandatory Norplant so they can serve without the distraction.

[Lorianne]

I think men have to have a family care plan as well.

[FrogMom]

Agree, it’s the lack of a family care plan.

Where is baby-daddy?

*sigh* is right. Guess I’m a dinosaur. They used to put pregnant females out of the military. Don’t see why they quit.

[republicangel]

I have some mixed feelings about this. Maybe norplant would be an answer, but maybe we could develop a norplant for men, too.

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.