@Ionus,
Quote:Will getting pregnant in a combat situation be the same as a self inflicted injury to get you out of combat
Welllll, about six months ago there was this commander (northern Iraq I think) WHO noticed that a lot of his females were getting shipped back to the states mid rotation, because of pregnancy. These females for the most part were technically not supposed to be having sex, a good many were married and had not seen their husbands lately and so the baby could not be husbands.
This commander said that a baby proved that an order had not been followed, and further sending all these women back weakened his combat ability and needlessly costs the US government a lot of money, because it costs a lot per solder per year to field a force in a war zone. This pregnant woman now needed an expensive medivac flight out, plus needs to be replaced.
So he said that any woman who got pregnant while in Iraq would be subject to Non Judicial Punishment......................
Boy, did he catch hell from his bosses back in Washington. He canceled the order with-in days.