GENERAL BACKS OFF ON COURT MARTIALS FOR PREGNANT SOLDIERS
An Army general in Iraq backed away from his threat today to court martial female soldiers who get pregnant. “I regret that the term ‘court martial’ is bandied about or mentioned,” Maj. Gen. Anthony Cucolo III said from Iraq today. “I do not ever see myself putting a soldier in jail for this.”
Cucolo triggered debate, some of it angry, when his Nov. 4 policy forbidding pregnancy among his soldiers became public recently. His policy statement said violation of the rule could be punishable by court martial, and that it would also apply to the men who get female soldiers pregnant, even if the couple is married. READ MORE…
Posted: December 22nd, 2009 under LA Topics, The Mario Solis-Marich Show.
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