Iraqi Soldiers could be suspended for being pregnant

[ASUADPi]

While I understand wanting to stop those women who are deliberately getting pregnant while deployed in hopes of going home, I guess I have an issue with it because shit happens. Some women could be there (with her husband) and they accidently get pregnant. It's one of those "oh crap, we didn't mean this to happen" cases.

I really hope the general or the "higher ups" give these reprimands on a case by case basis. Yes, you are going to have the people who do it on purpose, but all shouldn't be punished because of the few. (unfortunately, though, we live in a society where it takes only a "few" to ruin it for 'all').

[agzg]

Originally Posted by ASUADPi

While I understand wanting to stop those women who are deliberately getting pregnant while deployed in hopes of going home, I guess I have an issue with it because shit happens. Some women could be there (with her husband) and they accidently get pregnant. It's one of those "oh crap, we didn't mean this to happen" cases.

I really hope the general or the "higher ups" give these reprimands on a case by case basis. Yes, you are going to have the people who do it on purpose, but all shouldn't be punished because of the few. (unfortunately, though, we live in a society where it takes only a "few" to ruin it for 'all').

I don't get your logic. They're DEPLOYED. Specifically, to Iraq. They have more important things to worry about than having an "oops, it happened" moment.

I would guess that the vast majority of pregnancies that happen while ON DEPLOYMENT, in IRAQ, are no "mistake."

[ASUADPi]

Originally Posted by agzg

I don't get your logic. They're DEPLOYED. Specifically, to Iraq. They have more important things to worry about than having an "oops, it happened" moment.

I would guess that the vast majority of pregnancies that happen while ON DEPLOYMENT, in IRAQ, are no "mistake."

Hello "oops" moments happen all the frickin time! I'm sure most children would be considered "oops" children! Deployment isn't the only time "oops" happens.

I'm also talking about the married couples (not the non marrieds), because as Telly10 pointed out, they are in shared quarters, that wasn't my point.

My point was that if there is a married couple and they have an "oops", I don't think they should be given the "riot notice" over some bonehead who wants out of his/her deployment.

Shit happens!

[Telly10]

When in a Combat Zone, There is a rule against having sex- in the first place.

Its very distracting from the mission, and chances of STDs, Pregnancies, and other sex-related issues come up

Normally there is no place to have sex since most people sleep in shared tents/traliers...so those have sex normally have it in inappropriate places

However, there are special circumstances...In one of my deployments the Base commander had a special tent designed for married people (so they could have sex). However, that was very rare becuase married couples are NOT supposed to deploy together (in the same location- for more than one reason)

When soliders/seamen/airmen get preggo or catch an STD while deployed it LOWERS morale for those around them...it is very hard for others seeing people going home early (whatever the reason) while they have to serve the full deployment. Morale is normally already low because your away from family and friends.

Its a very good policy to enforce, and for those who disagree- most likely NEVER been to war. So, its easy for them to say what they would do, how the think they would feel or what their parents might have done...

[christiangirl]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

^^^ Had to turn the brightness down on my monitor because AF's siggie read

"Good come F U "

Ditto. I was gonna crack about it saying that even when I turned my brightness down, then realized that was the volume I was fiddling with.

IDK if I said it before but ditto on punishment for both parties and not just the female.

[amanda6035]

Originally Posted by Telly10

When in a Combat Zone, There is a rule against having sex- in the first place.

Its very distracting from the mission, and chances of STDs, Pregnancies, and other sex-related issues come up

Normally there is no place to have sex since most people sleep in shared tents/traliers...so those have sex normally have it in inappropriate places

However, there are special circumstances...In one of my deployments the Base commander had a special tent designed for married people (so they could have sex). However, that was very rare because married couples are NOT supposed to deploy together (in the same location- for more than one reason)

When soliders/seamen/airmen get preggo or catch an STD while deployed it LOWERS morale for those around them...it is very hard for others seeing people going home early (whatever the reason) while they have to serve the full deployment. Morale is normally already low because your away from family and friends.

Its a very good policy to enforce, and for those who disagree- most likely NEVER been to war. So, its easy for them to say what they would do, how the think they would feel or what their parents might have done...

Thank you, thank you, and thank you....

For the navy, if you were deployed and got pregnant, you had better hope that the baby's date of conception could be traced back to a time you were in a liberty port, because if you got pregnant during a time that the boat had been at sea for days and days, then it became a double whammy for you, because you just got caught having sex underway.