HUNDREDS of female troops have been evacuated from war zones after discovering they were pregnant, The Sun can reveal. More than 300 pregnant female service personnel had to be flown home from Iraq, Afghanistan, Cyprus and the Gulf, according to government documents. The figures obtained in a Freedom of Information request also show that 54 women had to be airlifted from Royal Navy ships or flown home from foreign ports after discovering they were pregnant at sea.There should be no place for women in the military. To suggest otherwise is to pander to women’s narcissism at the expense of operational efficiency and effectiveness. If the military were all-male it would help reduce male unemployment, which has long been higher than female unemployment.
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“Discovering”? Surely the women in our armed forces understand enough biology to know how babies are conceived. Some years ago I read an article about the US Navy. Prior to long deployments of its huge Aircraft Carriers they found they had epidemics of pregnancies (often later phantom or aborted) in the crew. Meaning the ships often left without their full crew. Our armed forces are comparatively tiny and are even less able to be effective if significant of their number “discover” they are pregnant before a deployment or in a possible combat situation. The cynic in me suspect few of these mysterious discoveries result in live births.
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Thanks Groan, good points. Why on earth would women of childbearing age be deployed until and unless they’d taken a cheap pregnancy test?
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Maybe I’m a bad person for reacting this way, but I find this hilarious.
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Rob, why do you find this hilarious?
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I guess I have a warped sense of humour. It’s a good example of the foolishness of the modern world continuing on its tragi-comic path. As Gad Saad puts it: onward, onward we march, ever closer to the abyss.
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Thanks Rob, good point!
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