Australian Navy buys servicewomen breast implants

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Taxpayer money spent funding breast enhancements

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THE Royal Australian Navy is paying for women sailors to have breast enlargements for purely cosmetic reasons, at a cost to taxpayers of $10,000 an operation.

Defence officials claim the surgery is justified because some servicewomen need bigger breasts to address "psychological issues".

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Look, if you want good plastic surgeons in uniform for reconstructive surgery, you've got to keep them busy when they aren't dealing with horrific injuries.

Surgeons need to practice--pretty much on a daily basis. If cosmetic surgery gives them this practice....

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Just think of them as permanently installed "flotation devices."

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Noddy24 wrote:

Look, if you want good plastic surgeons in uniform for reconstructive surgery, you've got to keep them busy when they aren't dealing with horrific injuries.

Surgeons need to practice--pretty much on a daily basis. If cosmetic surgery gives them this practice....

I believe the article interviews a civilian doctor.

I was amused more than horrified, though. $10,000? Pfft.

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There have been at least two occasions in Pennsylvania when the badly decomposed bodies of Fallen Women have been positively identified by their breast implants.

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