EXCLUSIVE: Deployed US Navy Has A Pregnancy Problem, And It’s Getting Worse

TempestTcup · 2017-03-04T14:59:01+00:00

A record 16 out of 100 Navy women are reassigned from ships to shore duty due to pregnancy, according to data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group.

But by August 2016 that number reached nearly 16 percent, an all-time high. The Navy reported 3,840 of the 24,259 women sailors who were aboard Navy ships were pregnant.

I'm assuming that Navy women have access to birth control, so why do you think that so many of these women are getting pregnant and leaving their stations?

“A pregnancy takes you out of action for about two years. And there’s no replacement,” said Elaine Donnelly

Jude Eden, a nationally known author about women in the military who served in 2004 as a Marine deployed to Iraq said a single transfer can cost the Navy up to $30,000 for each woman trained for a specific task, then evacuated from an active duty ship and sent to land. That figure translates into $115 million in expenses for 2016 alone.

16% is the same pregnancy rate as civilians as per this pdf chart from the CDC, but you would have to assume that a lot of the civilian women were actively trying to get pregnant with a planned pregnancy.

FlowerFluff · 2017-03-04T15:32:49+00:00

Honestly, this is not surprising. The overwhelming majority of women in the Navy are enlisted members rather than officers. Of course that means that a lot of the work they are doing on ships would be a lot of grunt work like maintaining aircraft, but depending on the position they could be doing something like scraping old paint on the side of the ship. Women officers on the other hand have it much better as the work is medical or management related. They're certainly intelligent women and this is a long term career for them.

That being said...this is most likely an issue with enlisted women. This is going to sound harsh, but many of the people who enlist straight out of high school are not exactly the most upstanding individuals at that time. My SO included. The Navy (and armed forces in general) turns boys into men. Gives a sense of duty, honor, and brotherhood. It turns lives around for those who want to change. Some people don't end up changing/ don't want to change. The irresponsible enlisted women can use pregnancy as an easy way out or to make the rest of their time be really low key. It's a huge drain on resources, but I wouldn't want that type of individual (male or female) working in the armed forces anyway. If they're being like this selfish in a non combat situation, can you imagine in a firefight? Certainly, not a person you would want to be providing cover for your loved one!

BC is incredibly easy to come by, and of course accidents do happen, but there is really no excuse to be pregnant while on deployment. Of course fertility can be weird some times, but guess what! The Navy has lots of great medical resources with physicians who are familiar with things like deployments and are incredibly helpful with planning!

TLDR: Women who "accidentally" get pregnant to avoid deployment/crappy job shouldn't be in the Navy or Armed Services at all.

blushinglilly · 2017-03-04T21:04:55+00:00

I tend to live by the rule of never assigning to malice what I can assign to stupidity. So I wouldn't assume they are doing it on purpose, I suspect it's more likely to be a failure in judgement.

liseux · 2017-03-05T01:58:51+00:00

I'm willing to bet that it's less intentional than we would think. I mean women on these vessels are surrounded by lonely men and some of them are suddenly extremely attractive to hordes of men for the first time in their lives. My husband has described this phenomenon to me in places he has served with few women. I am sure these ships have places and codes for how to hook up. Lots of sex means that the chances for getting pregnant go up. That's what's I'd think at least.

cynicalhousewife · 2017-03-05T10:28:58+00:00

If companies pay maternity leave than what can we expect? People are always going to take advantage of an opportunity like that. You get the benefits of said job without having to attend. Most people are not martyrs, if you offer them an opportunity they will take it whether it's the 'decent' thing to do or not. Look at mass immigration as an example, I am sure that if you were in their situation, you would do the same. Human nature is lazy and opportunistic. Blame the government.

Title	EXCLUSIVE: Deployed US Navy Has A Pregnancy Problem, And It’s Getting Worse
Author	TempestTcup
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Date	March 4, 2017 2:03 PM UTC (9 years ago)
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