[darkwing104]

She said Hutchinson had been given an other-than-honorable discharge.

There is so much more to this story...You have to earn one of those...

[ApplegateRanch]

Maybe John Kerry (he's a war hereo, you know) and John McCain (he also served, I think) could get togethe, and put a bi-partisan bill though Congress requiring the Services to create a new specialty, Child Care Specialist Corps to take charge of the children of deploying parents.

Think of the new opportunities this would provide for otherwise hopeless, unemployable youth, who do not qualify for regular service, and so are denied any opportunity for benefits.

Think of the opportunities for a whole new Pentagon bureaucracy; building, suppling, & equiping contracts; a whole new corps of lobbyists; a new source of graft....

[chris_bdba]

She should’ve been sinply to be made an example of. You shouldn’t join up if you don’t have anyone to depend upon to care for your kids and if enlisted you shouldn’t let yourself get pregnant if you don’t have a dependable spouse to leave them with.

[stbdside]

OTH discharges are quite serious, and even a General discharge (under honorable conditions) is not exactly a prime credential, especially in today’s economy.

You lose most of your benefits and a lot of employers will catch that on a background check.