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Get pregnant, get a ticket home.
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http://www.dailymail....finding-pregnant.html
Good way of getting a ticket home.
Should they be charged for a "self inflicted injury" while on combat duty?
/// The latest batch of mothers-to-be takes the total number that have returned to the UK to 64 since the war started in 2003. ///
It must be something in the water.
Good way of getting a ticket home.
Should they be charged for a "self inflicted injury" while on combat duty?
/// The latest batch of mothers-to-be takes the total number that have returned to the UK to 64 since the war started in 2003. ///
It must be something in the water.
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I think that the inference that a woman soldier would get pregnant in order to get sent home from a war zone is sexist and mysoginistic in the extreme.
Since that is your first observation - and a statement - I assume that this is your stance on the issue AOG, and I think it is a deplorable thing to say.
How can you possibly refer to the conception of a child as a 'self-inflicted injury' - even allowing for the circumstances in which these women find themselves to be pregnant. As the feature confirms, there is no way of knowing which, if any, of these women conceived before they left for their tour, or have actually conceived whilst on active service.
"It must be something in the water" - a deliberately flippant comment designed to draw the ire of anyone who can sypmatise with individuals who are away from home and facing death or injury on a daily basis - and may take some ill-advised comfort where they can find it - but I for one will not be drawn.
As jack has pointed out, this is an issue you have raised before AOG - is it something about which you have a bit of a bee in your proverbail bonnet?
Since that is your first observation - and a statement - I assume that this is your stance on the issue AOG, and I think it is a deplorable thing to say.
How can you possibly refer to the conception of a child as a 'self-inflicted injury' - even allowing for the circumstances in which these women find themselves to be pregnant. As the feature confirms, there is no way of knowing which, if any, of these women conceived before they left for their tour, or have actually conceived whilst on active service.
"It must be something in the water" - a deliberately flippant comment designed to draw the ire of anyone who can sypmatise with individuals who are away from home and facing death or injury on a daily basis - and may take some ill-advised comfort where they can find it - but I for one will not be drawn.
As jack has pointed out, this is an issue you have raised before AOG - is it something about which you have a bit of a bee in your proverbail bonnet?
Andy-Hughes
/// How can you possibly refer to the conception of a child as a 'self-inflicted injury' ///
Don't take everything you read so literally, I don't know whether or not you have served in the Armed Services, but if you have you would know that even to get yourself 'sun-burnt' is classed as a 'self inflicted injury' and is a chargeable offence.
Or at least it was when I was in the Forces.
Before condemning me for daring to infer that some women may choose to get pregnant so as to avoid the risk of being killed, perhaps you might wish to have second thoughts, think about it is it really so inconceivable that some may wish to take this option? Let's face it there are many in 'civvy street' who take that option just to get a house or flat.
I also take offence at being called sexiest, after all the very subject actually refers to females specifically, had the subject matter been about men who had shot themselves in the foot to get themselves shipped home, would this then have been sexiest?
/// How can you possibly refer to the conception of a child as a 'self-inflicted injury' ///
Don't take everything you read so literally, I don't know whether or not you have served in the Armed Services, but if you have you would know that even to get yourself 'sun-burnt' is classed as a 'self inflicted injury' and is a chargeable offence.
Or at least it was when I was in the Forces.
Before condemning me for daring to infer that some women may choose to get pregnant so as to avoid the risk of being killed, perhaps you might wish to have second thoughts, think about it is it really so inconceivable that some may wish to take this option? Let's face it there are many in 'civvy street' who take that option just to get a house or flat.
I also take offence at being called sexiest, after all the very subject actually refers to females specifically, had the subject matter been about men who had shot themselves in the foot to get themselves shipped home, would this then have been sexiest?
Ah, yes, the oft-mentioned 'AOG service history'.........slightly less than forth-coming on the details, there, though, as I recall.
These women are serving their country (if we are discussing UK soldiers) on the front-line at the same time as they have personal lives and marriages to live.
The results of a tender night of Goodbye before they leave may not make themselves apparent for several weeks.
I wonder how many male soldiers have been the recipients of 'We're pregnant!' letters/texts/e-mails once they have returned to the front-line?
These women are serving their country (if we are discussing UK soldiers) on the front-line at the same time as they have personal lives and marriages to live.
The results of a tender night of Goodbye before they leave may not make themselves apparent for several weeks.
I wonder how many male soldiers have been the recipients of 'We're pregnant!' letters/texts/e-mails once they have returned to the front-line?
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