{"id":32578,"date":"2012-10-26T08:15:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T12:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32578"},"modified":"2012-10-26T08:15:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T12:15:13","slug":"pregnancy-in-the-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32578","title":{"rendered":"Pregnancy in the military"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two articles in the Stars & Stripes today about women who are\/were preggers. The first<\/a> is about a woman who gave birth while she was deployed to Afghanistan. Apparently, she was given a pregnancy test thirty days before er deployment that came up negative. And she didn’t know she was pregnant until she went into labor;<\/p>\n

Both mother and child, a boy, were immediately redeployed to Germany and are healthy, according to USAREUR spokesman Joe Garvey, who declined to name the soldier. The mother is assigned to the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, a helicopter unit based near Ansbach, that deployed units across Afghanistan this spring.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The second article<\/a> is about a woman, before she was commissioned, discovered she was pregnant, but chose to hide it from her PMS. But now the Air Force has decided to boot her, because they don’t allow single parents on duty in their first term. From CNN<\/a>; <\/p>\n

Thirteen weeks into her pregnancy, she was sworn in by her father as a second lieutenant and started making plans to go to Virginia to begin her military service. Nearly six months into her pregnancy, she said, she told her new commanders that she was going to have a child, and they told her they didn’t think it would be a problem.<\/p>\n

But they were wrong. Citing a contract she signed in 2007 when she enrolled in ROTC at age 18, the Air Force said she committed a fraud by not reporting a change in her medical condition, as indicated in the contract.<\/p>\n

The Air Force ejected her, noting in its ruling, “It is not the responsibility of the staff to constantly remind you of the terms of your contract.”<\/p>\n

It further stated that her file contained eight forms in which she was briefed on the medical change reporting requirement. Edmonds said no one ever brought the issue up during her subsequent counseling sessions while she was enrolled at Marquette.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I remember when I used to be a TAC NCO at Fort Bragg’s ROTC Advance Camp, they’d test women before their time at camp began and inevitably, one would pop positive on the test. And that would end their career in the military before it began. I also had females who worked for me at an HHC in Fort Drum who were single parents before they enlisted, but they gave custody to their parents for their first enlistment to qualify for service. <\/p>\n

Of course, CNN is taking the side of social justice in their article, but the military is not the civilian world, as evidenced by the mother who gave birth in a war zone. How much did that baby cost the taxpayers, what with a flight to Germany? And someone needs to do that mother’s job now that she gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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