A lot of blogs are blowing up on this story published Saturday regarding a U.S. general who threatened to court martial his troops for getting pregnant or impregnanting someone.
Someone would violate the policy by “becoming pregnant, or impregnating a soldier, while assigned to the Task Force Marne (Area of Operations), resulting in the redeployment of the pregnant soldier,” according to the order.
The policy also applies to married couples who are at war together, Army spokesman Maj. Lee Peters told Stars and Stripes in an e-mail message. Both the husband and wife could face punishment under the policy.
I can understand the frustration of replacing pregnant moms in the military, but this general has stepped in a hornet’s nest.
