{"id":28803,"date":"2012-02-19T11:51:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T15:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28803"},"modified":"2012-02-19T11:51:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T15:51:55","slug":"empathy-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28803","title":{"rendered":"Empathy Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several of you guys sent us <a href=\"http:\/\/nation.foxnews.com\/us-army\/2012\/02\/16\/army-orders-soldiers-wear-fake-breasts-and-empathy-bellies\">this link to the story<\/a> about the Army making guys wear fake boobs and fake preggo-tummies so they learn to empathize with pregnant female soldiers who have to take PT. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dkygJFFvobs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Army is ordering its hardened combat veterans to wear fake breasts and empathy bellies so they can better understand how pregnant soldiers feel during physical training.<\/p>\n<p>This week, 14 noncommissioned officers at Camp Zama took turns wearing the \u201cpregnancy simulators\u201d as they stretched, twisted and exercised during a three-day class that teaches them to serve as fitness instructors for pregnant soldiers and new mothers.<\/p>\n<p>Army enlisted leaders all over the world are being ordered to take the Pregnancy Postpartum Physical Training Exercise Leaders Course, or PPPT, according to U.S. Army Medical Activity Japan health promotion educator Jana York.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I noticed that there were no females wearing the pregger-suits. I&#8217;m pretty sure that women who have never been pregnant don&#8217;t know how it feels either. But, of course, it&#8217;s only the men who have to wear the suit, because men can&#8217;t feel empathy without being humiliated and emasculated. <\/p>\n<p>McQ also comments on the practice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/2012\/02\/seriously.html\">at Blackfive<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of you guys sent us this link to the story about the Army making guys &hellip; <a title=\"Empathy Army\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28803\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Empathy Army<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}