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

TracyMorganFreeman · 2017-03-27T21:15:09+00:00

It was a problem 10 years ago when I was in.

I was called sexist for bringing it up then too.

Lethn · 2017-03-27T14:55:23+00:00

It's interesting to have more actual evidence of this kind of behaviour in regards to military service, obviously, no women ( Mainly feminists ) I'm not saying 'all' of you do this. I remember though awhile back in regards to the draft bill that people were attempting to push through congress to make women eligible for it.

The first thing you saw were women complaining about how they didn't want this and one comment stuck out for me in particular and they were saying that they'd just get themselves pregnant to avoid combat.

I absolute cannot wait for the male contraceptive pill to become properly safe because I can guarantee you that just this problem of women getting pregnant of men and using that as a weapon or a way to get what they want will be a thing of the past. In fact, if it's such a problem in the military generally I don't know why they aren't funding research for it because then they could ask male troops to take it so their female colleagues can't pull shit like this.

knightofsidonia · 2017-03-27T18:53:03+00:00

Simple, mandate implantation of an IUD or similar long term birth control method for the duration of their service.

McFeely_Smackup · 2017-03-27T20:39:10+00:00

The article fundamentally missed a key point, either intentionally or through ignorance, that "deployed" means every ship that leaves port. Some, if not most of those vessels are not going into a "hardship deployment" (combat zone, extended duration, etc).

If you break the distinction between hardship deployments and regular ones, the pregnancy rates go through the roof.

I served during the first Gulf War and it was the dirty little secret nobody talked about that some ships deployed to the Persian Gulf had 100% of their female crew rotated home pregnant with no replacements due to it being a time of reduction in forces for the military. People were being involuntarily extended beyond their enlistments to fill slots vacated by women who went home pregnant.

There's simply no question that some female sailors used pregnancy as a "get out of jail free" trump card. Some undoubtedly got pregnant accidentally and still benefited from leaving a combat tour early.

This isn't some politically motivated "women do or don't belong in combat/ships/etc" sort of thing...this is real and undeniable facts that so far the entire DOD has stuck their head in the sand over to avoid controversy.

SCROTAL-SACK · 2017-03-27T18:52:20+00:00

Is it so ridiculous to expect people to suppress their most basic urges for a fucking moment? At work nonetheless? Nothing but dumb fucking apes.

Factushima · 2017-03-27T21:31:38+00:00

I heard about this first hand from a 1st Sgt who spent a couple years in Iraq: when it got tough the females would flop on their backs to get out of the country. This was doubly true immediately preceeding a deployment.

The answer is to require the females to complete the deployment before they can separate. Especially for shit holes like Iraq.

MraBob · 2017-03-28T05:54:30+00:00

Nothing backfires quite like feminism.

Title	Deployed US Navy Has A Pregnancy Problem, And It’s Getting Worse
Author	Demonspawn
Upvotes	28
Comments	28
Date	March 27, 2017 2:44 PM UTC (9 years ago)
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