Now that is something you don't see everyday...
Posted on 05/30/2012 5:45:25 PM PDT by tobyhill
At a time when breastfeeding in public is already controversial, pictures of two military moms doing so while wearing their uniforms is sparking outrage.
The photo is part of a local breastfeeding awareness campaign by Mom2Mom of Fairchild Air Force Base, a support group launched in January by Crystal Scott, a military spouse and mother of three. Among the intimate close-ups of smiling young mothers cuddling their adorable babies, the images of the two airmen stand out.
Related: Moms react to the "Time" magazine's "Are You Mom enough?" breastfeeding cover
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I don’t mind when another woman breastfeeds but she should be discreet about it.
These women didn’t even attempt to be discreet, they posed for a picture.
It’s just a “15 minutes” thing. A crock of ... I’m not looking forward to the Homos in Uniform cover.
There is nothing wrong with breastfeeding, but making a public display out of it is just wrong.
There is nothing wrong with breastfeeding, in or out of uniform. The is nothing to see here, just babies eating.
According to the article this was a candid picture.
Discression is the better valor, which includes in regards to breastfeeding babies.
Now that is something you don't see everyday...
I have so much respect for those who serve. I’m also a nursing mother (counting down the days lol!). I don’t think moms should serve. There. I wrote it. It’s not PC and I don’t care.
Agree with you 100% - once you are pregnant, you go home & take care of your child. Such a dinosaur I am.
It’s downhill from here, particularly with militant queers in uniform. The feminized/homosexualized military will be all too recognizable in the very near future, the old military will not. But, that’s what liberalism does, i.e., destroys. Ah yes, Obama, the transformational president.
The TIME OUT generation.
Nothing wrong with breastfeeding but how about a little privacy?
This is an excellent illustration of how utterly wrong is the pretense that women are warriors.
Women are not warriors, no matter how many laws you pass or how much brain washing you do.
Warriors don’t suckle children.
And any male who wants women to be warriors is not a real man.
If you love a woman, you don’t want her to be a soldier of any kind except in an auxiliary role.
LOL. That’s funny.
There are lots of perfectly natural, acceptable things that you don’t do in public and in uniform.
This is one of them.
Excuse me: udderly wrong.
Privacy? The baby doesn’t care where they are.
Discretion is the key. I took a lot of pisses in uniform, but I sure didn’t invite a photographer to take my picture in action. I kissed my wife while in uniform, but not while in public view.
And I seem to recall something about wearing a uniform while trying to push a political agenda...what was that silly reg? No matter. I’m sure it has been gone for some time now.
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Some people aren't meant to be soldiers - soldiering is not about conducting "awareness" campaigns with images of yourself in knowingly provocative and out-of-uniform activities, however natural or maternal/paternal.
We now have day care centers and nursery schools on aircraft carriers. Marines wear fake boobs during training, so they can relate Tina and Susie.
Slam a couple of 6 packs...All this will seem funny.
(And the women's parents)
So, it’s admirable that Elizabeth Warren was (allegedly) the first woman to take the bar exam while breast-feeding, whereas this is horrible ... help!
I thought once pregnant they were honorably discharged.
Years ago, the military ladies with children would depart for a private place and use a breast pump.
When you’re in uniform and on duty, certain activities aren’t quite appropriate.
“We now have day care centers and nursery schools on aircraft carriers.”
Links? Not that I doubt you but that seems so WRONG on so many levels. Nurseries on a warship? Really?
I remember the movie THE WILD BUNCH which some critic back in 1979 got upset with Mexican women with bandoleers of ammo strapped around them were shown suckling babies.
Now all we need is to add in one of them firing a weapon at the enemy with her free hand.
Oy vey ...just don’t know what to think anymore.
This was posed, so some NUT JOB could make a point. That’s all. Try not to think about it too much.
My niece is in the Air Force and has had two children since she enlisted. My step sister served in the Navy 15 years, when she had her twins she asked for a discharge which was granted, she forty when they were born so I am sure that had something to do with it.
My niece is in the Air Force and has had two children since she enlisted. My step sister served in the Navy 15 years, when she had her twins she asked for a discharge which was granted, she forty when they were born so I am sure that had something to do with it.
Gonna be a sad day for the young’uns when they’re torn away from their mother’s breasts when their unit is activated.
LOL
Thirty-two years in the military (so far) and two children. Never, not once, did I ever breast feed in public. It would never have crossed my mind to do so in uniform. I pumped in private as well. My youngest is 15, so it wasn’t all that long ago.
This simply shocks me.
I think you can get an honorable discharge if you want one, but have read about military women, married and single, with their newborns being cared for by Gram or a friend while they are deployed. So, from what I can tell, you don’t have to be discharged.
How is this in any way shocking? The military has been Oprah-fied, and any woman in the service has been part of it. Men can’t be warriors when women are around, period. And women are pathetic when pretending to be warriors. I would say that the only exceptions are butchy lesbians.
Today’s military is a joke with women in it - it is Obama’s dream.
Sad yes, and we all will be asked to feel sorry for them and take some sort of special measures to make it seem more humane.
What sort of pathetic mom would have children at the breast knowing she could get deployed next week? And what kind of woman would pretend she was a real soldier when she knows she can put in for a discharge to take care of her newborn?
Women “soldiers” are 100% bad for the military.
Yes, it’s so “honorable” to engage in activities that can cause pregnancy knowing you can just ask for a discharge if you feel like it later.
The military itself seems keen on glorifying homo homecoming kisses by sending over their own photogs to record and publish these perverse public displays, so down the slippery slope it is. Always plenty of self-centered attention ho's who will rush in for their 15 min., no matter how offensive, inappropriate, or antisocial their behavior is.
The common thread with these "uniform violations" is the sick need to besmirch, defile, and profane the whole concept of wearing a United States military uniform with honor, dignity, and respect. Gee what kind of people would be interested in promoting and coordinating such abominations?
Maybe we should just be thankful there haven’t as yet been any photos of homosexual troops doing each other in the bus station restroom or at a highway rest stop.
No doubt, however, THAT must be listed under, “Our American Future.”
Will have to agree to disagree. I have served in a behind the lines/scenes role, freeing up men to be frontline warriors. Nor do I watch Oprah. Not a butch lesbian either.
Boy, do I have some swampland to sell you if you don’t think that is staged.
Translation: if she does not ask for the discharge she is a pathetic mother, and if she does ask for the discharge she is a pathetic soldier. This so because women are pathetic soldiers and the military is no place for social experiments.
They aren’t “military” moms. They are moms stealing a salary pretending to be soldiers.
OOH-EMM-GEE
PEOPLE NEVER HAD TO BREASTFEED BEFORE THIS ... BEFORE THIS ... uh, nevermind.
Scott suggests that the issue might have less to do with the uniform and more to do with our own internal conflicts. "I think a lot of people think that you can't be a mom and be a soldier," she says.
Scott doesn't know the difference between a soldier and an airman.
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