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Army discharging single mom who refused deployment (More Political Correctness)
AP ^ | 12 Feb 10 | RUSS BYNUM

Posted on 02/12/2010 8:36:24 AM PST by SkyPilot

Edited on 02/13/2010 6:51:34 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: green iguana

“I’m curious - would you have her son go into an orphanage, or let her bring him with her?”

As an ADULT she has several choice:
A. Have a Plan B if mommy can’t take care of your child
or, what should have been plan A - I took an oath, I’ll keep my legs closed until I can make plans for this child that will not interfere with the oath I took.

She deserves a dishonorable discharge. There are many single parents deployed who are responsible and have made plans for their children without having to rely on mommy to bail them out.


22 posted on 02/12/2010 8:50:14 AM PST by exbrit
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To: SkyPilot
He said commanders decided a court-martial would be too disruptive to the Army…

Maybe, but not less that this precedent will.

24 posted on 02/12/2010 8:51:29 AM PST by TankerKC (No government employees were harmed in the slashing of this budget.)
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To: SkyPilot

“She is no longer in a relationship with the father of her 13-month-old son”

such a surprise..


25 posted on 02/12/2010 8:52:49 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: green iguana

I would like to see her sent on her way with a dishonorable discharge and a bill for all the training she had received.


26 posted on 02/12/2010 8:54:13 AM PST by gruffwolf
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To: SkyPilot
A sales rep who called on me yesterday told me "my wife and I are about to be parents again". This is a middle-aged guy with 3 grown kids, so I was taken aback by that remark. Then he told the whole story. His son is being deployed for the second time to Iraq or Afghanistan; this time for 16 months. The son has a 7-month old son and is estranged from the wife/mother who does not have custody. He has no one to take care of the infant while he is deployed. So it fell upon the grandparents to take in a baby for the first time in over 20 years.

It's going to be hard to have to bring up a baby again, right at the time when they were getting used to becoming empty nesters. But, just as their son has a duty to his country and the National Guard, they felt duty-bound to care for their grandson while their son returns to harm's way.

The single mom in this sory is just another welfare recipient, IMO. She should not be a single mom and be in the armed services. If her mother could have taken the child and did not, she, too is a disgrace.

27 posted on 02/12/2010 9:01:09 AM PST by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: green iguana

I don’t know her particular situation, but my first thought was, “let Dad take care of him.”


28 posted on 02/12/2010 9:01:14 AM PST by burroak
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To: EDINVA
She will figure out how to transition from military/vet benes to “entitlement” programs. This is a win-win to her.

Bullspit. She joined for the bennies and now she gets none. She is lucky, but this isnt "win-win".

29 posted on 02/12/2010 9:04:44 AM PST by Nonstatist
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To: SkyPilot

She was demoted and lost all her benefits as well.


30 posted on 02/12/2010 9:05:00 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

What the hell is a supposedly responsible adult soldier doing making babies with a guy who won’t even bother to marry her?

I know for a fact that contraceptives were available to her since she can’t manage to keep her panties on. All she had to do was use them, but apparently that was too much trouble.

Now some other soldier and his or her family is going to have to take up her slack.


31 posted on 02/12/2010 9:06:19 AM PST by EricT. (Can we start hanging them yet?)
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