Posted on 09/22/2004 2:04:26 AM PDT by Former Military Chick
I am also aware that many women return from Iraq, short of her rotation because she has a bun in the oven.
Now then, why is this fair? It is these types of articles that really frustrate me.
Just from that line, I draw the following summary:
Liberal chick. Joined the military to get a free ride for college. Learned that, gee whiz, militaries go overseas to fight. Now wants out.
Perhaps I'm being harsh, but this dame isn't fit to wear that uniform. Give her a dishonorable discharge and get her the hell out of the service before she f---s it up even more.
why would you join the military knowing that the military fights in war....free ride? im sorry but that makes me angry...dont join if you dont want to serve.
This woman should suck it up and fulfill the committment she made when she signed the papers and took that oath. She might well profit by it later and be glad she stuck it out.
Getting pregnant should not get one out of their military committments. There are many young fathers serving our military as well and they are making the sacrifices. Women wanted equal rights. Well they have equal rights and with that equal status comes responsibility.
I'm inclined to agree that it isn't necessarily fair to the women who don't become pregnant or to the men, or to the units who lose needed manpower when a woman is rotated (or TAD) to pregnancy duty. But what is the solution?
My wife is active duty Navy and is currently on sea duty assigned to a ship (I'm a former sailor and current Reservist in a billet unlikely to ever be mobilized). We're a married couple, financially we are doing pretty well, and we would like to have children. Should we wait just because she's in the military? How is that fair? Men in the military don't have to wait to start a family.
I'm not trying to disagree with you or start anything, but I would really like to hear some opinions about this, and as a (former) military chick I'm sure you have more insight than most.
"Oh, yes," she said when she received her first retirement check from the military which augmented her income she earned from "military paid" college in years past.
Self centered, uncaring, inconsiderate, undeserving, wench! (IMO)
Lesson: don't join the military if you're not willing to serve...
"I'm a really sensitive person, and they're all yelling at me, and I'd just go back and cry," she remembered. "I was trying to fail so they'd send me home."
This sounds like the last person we'd want to send into a war zone. It concerns me greatly that our military is now having to call up people like this, who signed up only after a Private Benjamin recruiting pitch when they really weren't cut out for military service in the first place.
Wow, hate to read something you wrote when you were really angry.
top o' the morning!
Well said!
Weapons are to be used against the enemy, not a preganancy detector.
Bottom of the day before for me. I haven't the time to get someone pregnant for work keeps me too busy....
Believe me though, I DO appreciate my earned stash and my retirement that I have EARNED, without complaint.
Things are looking up.
The only time I had an "oh, no" moment was when there was a death in the family.
Not when I willingly screwed up.
I forgot to add that fire departments do indeed get applicants that don't know about the dangers of firefighting. Incredible.
Then is the only solution to return to a policy of no women in combat roles, period? When I was active, there were no women on my warship (USS Dwight D. Eisenhower), and we never had problems with combat readiness.
Sometimes there are permissible reasons to change one's mind. This is one of them.
BUMP
You mean the Planned Parenthood assistant didn't counsel her about her "options". Anyway, there are so many points on what is wrong with this country in this one article, I wouldn't know where to begin at this late hour.
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