If a soldier becomes pregnant...

[MC Moot]

while currently deployed on a "high" risk mission, is she re-assigned to a less volatile duty?...anyone know?…just curious…

[QueenAdrock]

They're immediately discharged to "safe" work, such as administrative positions for the army and the like. They have to pass certain kinds of body profiles in order to be active duty overseas (under a certain amount of body weight, can lift a certain amount of weight, etc) and they wouldn't pass that once they got further into the pregnancy. Oh, that, and it would be harmful to the baby...of course. *cough*

[MC Moot]

Interesting...That strikes me as somewhat unfair...like the potential for dereliction of duty exists...not that I'm not glad they're removed from the threat of iminent danger but because Klinger had to wear heels for all those years, guning for a section 8...:confused:

[abcdefz]

...does the father get put out of way of danger, too?

I bet not.

[MC Moot]

That's what kinda inspired this inquiry,another one of our troops was killed in Afghanistan yesterday and reading his bio it stated his wife was due with his first child anyday....:(

[abcdefz]

Wow -- that really sucks.

Better or worse than your kid being mauled to death by a tiger on Christmas Day?

[jabumbo]

wouldn't you have to wonder a bit if a soldier became pregnant while on a high risk mission?

[MC Moot]

wouldn't you have to wonder a bit if a soldier became pregnant while on a high risk mission?

Exactly...isn't there some kind of kevlar chastity belt they're issued?.....but of course romance while on "Leave" would be inevitable and entirely logical...makes me wonder just what the fraternization policy is?....

[MC Moot]

Wow -- that really sucks.

Better or worse than your kid being mauled to death by a tiger on Christmas Day?

Not if he was dangling his legs over the enclosure...here kitty,kitty...

[abcdefz]

That would be a very stupid thing to do, of course, but nobody deserves that.

[MC Moot]

That would be a very stupid thing to do, of course, but nobody deserves that.

Granted with exception of Big Game sport hunters or poachers...(y)

[abcdefz]

I have a hard time wishing death on anybody, really. Except maybe the terminally ill who are in unmanageable pain.

[MC Moot]

yeah,it's not proper to do so....however,in theory,I would trade 100,000 human lives for one "new" breeding pair of genectically unique Siberian tigers....wrong as it may be...

[QueenAdrock]

...like the potential for dereliction of duty exists...


Sure, there's plenty of other ways to do it too. Like, tell them you're gay. That gets you kicked out right away, right? Well, if that doesn't work, I heard plenty of stories of guys getting out of Vietnam by injuring themselves. Even going so far as having people running over their arms/legs with a car, to break it so badly that they'd have to be in a wheelchair or unable to hold a gun, thus making it impossible for them to fight.

Being pregnant is probably less painful though. Until labor, that is.

[ericlee]

wouldn't you have to wonder a bit if a soldier became pregnant while on a high risk mission?

of course they screw in combat zones, on base and such.

All the tension going on, its a great stress relief.

And I'd answer moot's original question but queenie nailed it on the head. And no, the father doesnt get relocated. In most cases, they aren't even able to see their kids being born and some have died even before the baby is born.

[MC Moot]

Sure, there's plenty of other ways to do it too. Like, tell them you're gay..

I don't know...does it?...I don't believe in the Canadian Armed services it actually does unless it's attached to sexual misconduct or behavior unbecoming the regiment….I never clearly understood the actual implications oif Billy’s C’s “don’t ask,don’t tell” strategy…..however given current post traumatic stress related suicide rates,I figure the surest ticket back home would be to exhibit suicidal tendency’s…

[Tone Capone]

of course they screw in combat zones, on base and such.

All the tension going on, its a great stress relief.

And I'd answer moot's original question but queenie nailed it on the head. And no, the father doesnt get relocated. In most cases, they aren't even able to see their kids being born and some have died even before the baby is born.

Yeah fucking while deployed happens but, there is also General Order #1 "No Sex" (or don't get caught having sex or getting knocked up).

It's not like that everywhere overseas, just the sandbox.

[Loppfessor]

^Yeah while you're deployed there is a no sex rule but it happens a LOT. I think the girl who gets pregnant while deployed can actually get in trouble but I'm not sure how much. I do know at least in the AF though if it's under normal circumstances they actually have the option to get out if they get pregnant. I'm not sure how I feel bout that but I guess it's a good thing

[ericlee]

when I used to do security in the mid east, I had to do interior patrol at camp Doha and there's those cement scud bunkers.

Alot of times I'd be passing by and hear soldiers screwing in them. I was told by command that if I catch them, I was supposed to report them. Fuck that shit man. I'd be doing the same thing if I were in their shoes.

[adam_f]

Originally posted by abcdefz
I have a hard time wishing death on anybody, really. Except maybe the terminally ill who are in unmanageable pain.

This is where we differ.

[QueenAdrock]

I don't know...does it?...I don't believe in the Canadian Armed services it actually does unless it's attached to sexual misconduct or behavior unbecoming the regiment….I never clearly understood the actual implications oif Billy’s C’s “don’t ask,don’t tell” strategy…..however given current post traumatic stress related suicide rates,I figure the surest ticket back home would be to exhibit suicidal tendency’s…


I don't know either, honestly. I think you get discharged if they find out, but I could be wrong. I know that my friend told me back in high school that if they ever tried to deploy him he'd just say he was gay...joke was on us though, turns out he actually was. :mad: