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  • Exclusive: General Backs Off on Court Martials for Pregnant Soldiers

    12/22/2009 8:41:51 AM PST · by BradtotheBone · 36 replies · 993+ views
    ABC News ^ | Dec. 22, 2009 | LUIS MARTINEZ and SARAH NETTER
    An Army general in Iraq backed away from his threat today to court martial female soldiers who get pregnant. "I see absolutely no circumstance where I would punish a female soldier by court martial for a violation ... none," Maj. Gen. Anthony Cucolo III wrote to ABC News in an exclusive statement. " I fully intend to handle these cases through lesser disciplinary action." Cucolo triggered debate, some of it angry, when his Nov. 4 policy forbidding pregnancy among his soldiers became public recently. His policy statement said violation of the rule could be punishable by court martial, and that...