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Allowing funds for abortion in the military is important for military readiness. Tuberville is affecting military readiness by withholding appointments and it’s affecting people. He acknowledged the fact and doesn’t care. He’s not speaking to lower ranking people. He’s talking to people who aren’t affected by the appointments, pay or availability of abortion in their states.
Okay, I will take the readiness question as someone who works with a lot of O-7-O-9s and occasionally the O-10 in my capacity as a reserve O-5 CO/action officer and not related to my main job
It is causing tremendous readiness issues throughout the DOD enterprise. Many officers who have served 30 years who have jobs lined up after retirement are being asked to stay in on waiver to fill those roles. But the amount of officers doing so pales in comparison to the number of vacancies
Interim commanders cannot update certain types of guidance because they don’t have authorities to do so, which is causing maintenance and materiel readiness problems
The risk to the force of some of the best senior officers who would otherwise stay and compete but will now plan on getting out cannot be overstated. A lot of institutional knowledge is being lost and the retention rate going down due to Tuberville will take years to overcome. This is due to the accordion effect of officer year groups being overlooked due to timing (a separate story of T-notch in the mid 1990s took 8-10 years to normalize, and yet the military still had to promote enough people to fill billets…think Peter principle on steroids for a decade)
Military families are suffering because the officers cannot execute a PCS move, so many are either paying for two places, or delaying shifts in schools, etc. this is costing them tens of thousands of dollars, all for a job that makes ~$210ish k per year (excluding the retirement)
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The abortion issue:
He has basically been targeting the wrong people for his crusade. Political nominees who have policy making decisions should have always been the ones to target
Uniformed military leadership do not have authorities to change policy at that level, yet they are being used as political leverage, which is insane. He has effectively politicized a very traditionally A-political organization
Readiness issues related to the abortion issue itself:
Just as was said above, uniformed members very often do not choose the duty location and instead, especially directly out of training, they go based on the military’s needs.
So the defense travel policy has been updated to take care of their medical needs. Think about it this way: if you are stationed in Diego Garcia (middle of Indian Ocean), and you are diagnosed with cancer, you would get travel to be flown somewhere where you can be treated for an indefinite period. So too is the same for the abortion issue.
Policies have changed for this to accommodate service members. Nearly every time a woman goes to a military treatment facility, they give her a pregnancy test. If you had a test confirmed by a provider, they were required to let your command know, so the command could start processing you from mobilizing/deploying. New policy disallows providers from telling commands prior to 20 weeks of pregnancy
This policy affects readiness for the military because of the potential to lose a trained service member from deployment if she wants to deploy, decreasing critical manning at a time when it is needed. Women make up nearly 20% of the force, so this will have an effect on readiness, retention, and recruitment
Sorry this was long but this truly is having a profound effect on readiness, and many military members will lose thousands of dollars due to this. Unlike enlisted, at the general/flag level, we have to be appointed and you cannot backdate rank to become whole
This entire thing is a crusade of folly, targeting the wrong people, all from a person who is already a millionaire, and who’s decision he does not have to live with, yet thousands of others do
He is plainly not accountable for any of his actions
Dang. I don’t mean to write so much…sorry
DoD isn't providing funds for abortions. They're providing travel and lodging for service members who need to travel for those service because they're stationed somewhere that severely restricts it. We service members don't get a choice where we serve, so this mitigates that. If you oppose this, you're anti military
BAH 1, I guess you don’t understand the mission, right?
Saban would have been a better Senator IMO.
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The military is supposed to kill terrorists, not babies.
You could have answered simply. Your elaboration betrays more than you think it does.
The simplest differentiator between your examples is meiosis vs mitosis.
Can you even acknowledge that there is a good faith argument that life begins with the combination of one person’s DNA creating a unique genetic code as the blueprint for a unique individual?
Seems like grand-standing. Of course, the Democrats also didn't need to change existing DOD policy.
There is so much going on in this post. I hope that you got your answer on military readiness. One thing that I will say is number one, if you’ve never been pregnant before, you don’t get to step into this conversation because you don’t know the physical side of it, the mental and emotional side of it. And yes, even if you’re the father, you can only imagine what it’s like to be physically responsible for another human being‘s life. Number two if you’ve never been military or part of a military family and I mean immediate family, either children or spouse, you don’t have space to talk about this scenario either, I come from both. What the previous poster stated about military readiness for females is absolutely correct. The only thing that is looked at is the mission and whether they can help fulfill the mission or not.
Did any of you see the post by the Democratic senator from Illinois, Senator Duckworth, she is a previous military member, a veteran. She lost her legs in a helicopter accident when she was shot down. The first thing they did was give her birth control when she was ready to deploy because you can’t run around being pregnant if you’re on deployment. Again that goes to the mission. If you’ve never been pregnant, or or a veteran or a direct family member of a veteran or military member, you don’t have space in this conversation. At least to speak from experience in this conversation.
Next man up.
One has nothing to do with other. There is no cause and effect.