“War means fighting. Fightin’ means killing.”
Unless you are planning on having her dig a foxhole, uhhh. I mean fighting position, outside the day care center, she needs to be expeditiously chaptered (no borads, no review etc.) with a general discharge. The rules are clear, and she broke them.
“I can’t believe the vitriol directed at women because they give birth”
Wow, that line of logic could say Timmy McVeigh wasn’t a bad man, he just had a bad day and nobody cared he was angry.
Yeah...we have some real doozies here. It’s a very unfortunate situation. The woman had a family plan and the woman that was supposed to take care of her child while she was gone flaked out under the stress of running a business (day care) and taking care of 2 ailing family members on top of this little baby. I don’t know of any loving parent, MALE or FEMALE, that would be able to leave the country under the circumstances. There’s nothing in the story to indicate that she did anything other than prepare to leave for her deployment until her family plan fell apart at the last minute. Clearly, that makes her deserving of all this scorn and hatred shown in this thread. (note extreme sarcasm)