Army girl gives birth in Camp Bastion

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....rth-Taliban-raid.html

Shouldn't all female Service personnel, be given a pregnancy test before leaving for an overseas posting, especially to a war zone?

[friedgreentomato]

No but can we volunteer some ex forces to have other bits removed.

[DTCwordfan]

http://www.telegraph....ves-birth-to-son.html

wait for one of these births on the front line........AOG's views/comments should be priceless

[ladybirder]

How did she not feel baby kicking? I used to be able to see my stomach moving as mine kicked.

[anotheoldgit]

DTcrosswordfan

What is he matter with you you started off by saying I was not bad and I was about to explain that all I did was to ask a valid question:

" Shouldn't all female Service personnel, be given a pregnancy test before leaving for an overseas posting, especially to a war zone?"

To which you and others chose to take offence at for some reason. I was accused of being bigoted, old fashioned, and sexist for reasons only known to you and the others.

But then you were quick to revert back to your usual type of insults, in your last paragraph.

/// And for the record to anna and other new folk, the way AOG tries and turns to make a snide remark is typical, the sign of a weak mind. He started this personal attack before my remarks, a fine testament to the "man" he supposes to be. ///

This type of thing is totally unacceptable especially when aimed at new members of AnswerBank, and short of waiting for a response from the ED, I will no longer be joining you in any future debate.

[Sqad]

2sp.... appendicitis is a disease.

Pregnancy isn't.

A certain differentiation........one can combat Pregnancy by pregnancy testing, but one cannot scan for appendicitis.

[Kerosene]

I'm a bloke and didn't learn how to iron until I joined the Forces. So believe it or not, male squaddies also have to perform these - if you believe some posters on here - jobs only fit for women. I also did my own washing, sewing, boot polishing, cleaning the b*gs etc. We 'even' had to do our own cooking from time to time.

So all I can say to those pampered guys out there is: Don't join up! I'd guarantee that none of them ever have?

[Zeuhl]

<appendicitis is a disease.

Pregnancy isn't.>

According to BUPA

pregnancy is 'a self-inflicted injury'

[DTCwordfan]

Good that is fine by me AOG which is such a wet thing to write. You were the one to start the personal insults and I know that I won't get a personal apology. I would't have gone down the route of pointing out some home truths if you hadn't made the comment at 12.59 and then the second insulting remark at 14.55 - and, to top it all off, you were the one who made the "pleading" to anna, verbal violin playing of the quality of Nicola Benedetti that was too.

So don't try that bull on me, it doesn't become you.

[DTCwordfan]

So Zeuhl, death from a pregnancy becomes accidental suicide? How mad is that BUPA definition....

[2sp_]

I was kidding about the appendicitis, Sqad.

[Sqad]

2sp...LOL

[Kerosene]

Further to my last post, it's not that long ago that I was in the Forces, but females weren't deployed in so called frontline situations in those days. It's a relatively recent development as far as UK Forces are concerned and is of course as a result of equal opportunities, like it or lump it.

All I can imagine is that old prejudices still flourish in certain quarters?

[Sqad]

DT/Zeuhl...LOL

You don't die from pregnancy, but you may die from the complications of pregnancy...e.g Toxaemia or Hemorrhage.

[DTCwordfan]

Kerosene, that conclusion of yours may be so very true.

[Zeuhl]

Dt LOL

BUPA is happy to stump up if the mother is 'at risk'

they just won't pay for any of the regular 'baby arriving' stuff

[DTCwordfan]

so how would you classify an ectopic pregnancy, Sqad......

[emmie]

no all female service personnel shouldn't be given pregnancy tests.
No more than asking all male service personnel if they have a STD before leaving for a war zone.

[Sqad]

DT.........self inflicted.........until it ruptured........then a disease. (I have just made that up cus i don't know the answer;-)

[DTCwordfan]

lol, Sqad - been through one of those and it ain't pretty.......everything was ok though thanks to prompt action by the Gynae and at Mount Alvernia in Guildford.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph....-zone-deployment.html

/// Female soldiers should take pregnancy tests before heading to war, military experts said tonight, as a British servicewoman who unknowingly gave birth prepared to fly home from Afghanistan. ///

Well at least the 'EXPERTS' seem to agree with me.