Thread: Prison for pregnant troops in Iraq

Originally Posted by tankie

Col can you throw some light on my Q above .

In my case, she was part of the brigade HQ that was attached. He was the CSM. It was simply the luck of the draw. We needed a Bde HQ and it was the CSM's battalion rotation.

Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers

Why should married couples get a privledge denied to others in a combat zone?

I guess my opinion differs from others since I am not a military type, but I believe in the sanctity of marriage and ALL that entails.

I think they should be allowed to socialize. Though it should be made clear that they should not get pregnant.

But im thinking what happens if she gets pregnant? Do they blame the man? Or the Women? What if the man used a condom and the women still got pregnant? Do they blame the condom?

I change my stand. NO SEX sounds good.

I hesitate to enter this discussion because I ain't got the answers. I can see everyone's point of view here. I would offer this observation.

I've used condoms three times. All were long ago, back before AIDS was even known to exist & before antibiotic resistant gonnorreah, etc, etc had evolved (or, OK, to be fair, invented by God to punish the wicked, or whatever). Twice of those three times the rubber self-destructed. I don't know if it was because they were old; weren't restocked often enough so that shelf-life issues became important, because they weren't well made to begin with or because I (or we) were so frantic as to destroy the things with our enthusiasm, but 0.667 of my condoms got f*cked. So to speak.

Accidents happen. I wouldn't like to be the CO of an outfit who had to prosecute a couple of my people, especially a married couple, for enjoying liturgically allowable conjugal bliss. I'm 'way for the military in most things, but I have seen upper echelon people absolutely turn their backs on members the hoi polloi in the face of negative press coverage.

Courage is good. But you're supposed to get backed up by the REMFs.

Prof