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DOD Will Allow Troops On Duty to Breastfeed
Cybercast News Service ^ | January 29, 2016 | 8:13 AM EST | Susan Jones

Posted on 01/29/2016 9:02:01 AM PST by Olog-hai

As part of his commitment to build the military "force of the future," Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Thursday announced a series of "family-friendly" initiatives to attract and retain "the best America has to offer."

"We are not Google. We are not Walmart. We're war fighters. But that doesn't mean we should not be challenging ourselves just like the private sector," Carter told reporters at the Pentagon. [...]

The Defense Secretary outlined the following initiatives: [...] Making military workplaces more accommodating to women when they return from maternity leave: The focus here is to make it easier for new mothers to continue breast-feeding, if they choose to do that.

"To make the transition between maternity leave and returning to work for military mothers smoother, to enhance our mission effectiveness, and to comply with standards that apply to nearly every organization outside the military, I am requiring that a mother's room be made available at every facility with more than 50 women, which means the establishment of some 3,600 rooms across the country," Carter said. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: ashcarter; breastfeeding; dod; forceofthefuture; hobbling; mothersroom; obama; usmilitary
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Looks like Carter refuses to acknowledge the difference between “challenges” and hobbling.
1 posted on 01/29/2016 9:02:01 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

But, won’t that inflame the passionate rapist rages of muslim mad dogs?


2 posted on 01/29/2016 9:02:55 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Olog-hai

So, babies on duty stations. Got it. *werescrewed*


3 posted on 01/29/2016 9:03:38 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Olog-hai

To quote the character Dirty Harry in the Enforcer movie: what do you think this is some kind of encounter group?

Obviously in DoD today, the answer is yes.


4 posted on 01/29/2016 9:03:50 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: CodeToad

US Army is a daycare now?


5 posted on 01/29/2016 9:04:59 AM PST by biff
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To: CodeToad

No Combat Ops during Nap Time.


6 posted on 01/29/2016 9:05:13 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Olog-hai

There is so much wrong with that statement......


7 posted on 01/29/2016 9:05:25 AM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: biff

Liberals see the military as the largest Government Social Program there is.


8 posted on 01/29/2016 9:06:12 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Olog-hai

What a pathetic joke.

We will lose the next major war if this bullcrap is allowed to continue.

See how the liberals like living under occupation.

We will see if the enemy occupiers puts up with the Black Lives Matter Crowd, the homosexual agenda, the environmentalist wackos, etc.


9 posted on 01/29/2016 9:07:44 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Politicians and diapers must be changed often and for the same reason.....Mark Twain)
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To: massgopguy

“Will you bad guys stop firing those guns!? Baby is sleeping!”


10 posted on 01/29/2016 9:08:16 AM PST by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: biff

“To get to us, you have to get through the nursing women.”


11 posted on 01/29/2016 9:08:33 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Politicians and diapers must be changed often and for the same reason.....Mark Twain)
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To: Olog-hai

Ooohhh if the soldier is a mother, she can breastfeed the baby. I thought the headline meant something else entirely.


12 posted on 01/29/2016 9:08:51 AM PST by GregoTX (I am a Ted Cruz supporter, and that does not mean I am anti-Trump)
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To: Darksheare
Men! Stand your ground, demand equal treatment!


13 posted on 01/29/2016 9:09:26 AM PST by PROCON (Proud CRUZader!)
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To: Olog-hai

..to enhance our mission effectiveness, and to comply with standards that apply to nearly every organization outside the military...
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We are so screwed. I don’t think we will make it through another year under this Communist administration.


14 posted on 01/29/2016 9:09:37 AM PST by panaxanax ( Cruz/West 2016)
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To: CodeToad

That’s what I wondered. Where are these babies that need feeding?


15 posted on 01/29/2016 9:09:56 AM PST by JustSurrounded
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To: Olog-hai
DOD Will Allow Troops On Duty to Breastfeed

Whew! Well alrighty then. As long as they can breastfeed and NOT carry firearms we should be in good shape!

What a fighting machine Obama has built. A sissified, wimpy, social experiment that used to be called a fighting military machine.

16 posted on 01/29/2016 9:09:57 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: PROCON

LOL, another angle to employ to illustrate the ridiculousness of the situation.


17 posted on 01/29/2016 9:10:02 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: dfwgator

They must be joking. This will just increase the number of women who will be unavailable for duty and a man will have to replace them. So will a sub surface mid patrol so a female can start maternity leave?


18 posted on 01/29/2016 9:10:33 AM PST by Oldexpat
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To: massgopguy
Yep, can see it now.

Just hang out a sign in a foxhole or behind a sniper stand, "Shhh, baby sleeping!"

On military mobile units and airplanes, signs hanging in the windows, "Baby on Board!"

19 posted on 01/29/2016 9:10:58 AM PST by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: Olog-hai
I doubt whether he was thinking of this:


20 posted on 01/29/2016 9:11:47 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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