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I remember that this picture was a real scandal in US Army. But, from my point of view, it shouldn't be. Two women, a part of US forces, have time to breastfeed their children. It's actually something wonderful, not a disgrace to uniform, like the medias broadcasted.
agreed man their is nothing wrong with taking care of your kids and even more so for men women in uniform as they have even less free time to spend with their kids ...
I agree - to a point. There is absolutely nothing wrong with breastfeeding in general, and nothing wrong with females in the military breastfeeding. However, they aren't civilians, and should/are held to a different, higher standard. They could have easily avoided this very public situation by using a breast pump and bottle - and fed them from the breast again once they were in private. Doing it in uniform isn't exactly what I would call wrong... but it is questionable - period. Civilians in public? Please, do it all day long. Soldiers... I don't think it's the best idea. In the end though, I doubt this kind of behaviour will/would have any negative effects, and it may even have a positive effect on moral.
Oh get that stick out of your ***. They are soldiers - they fken kill people. There is absolutely nothing wrong with breast feeding or anything involving fken tits. Wtf is wrong with you people - we have violence everywhere yet tits makes everyone rage. If they had a pic in an occupied irak city holding their weapons no one would give a ****. Yet something as natural and quite beautiful as a mother feeding her child is now something to fken hide.
Before you reply to a post, @Anubis_theDark, it's best if you read it first. Give it another go and try again.
Second view same ****. You imply that just because they are soldiers there are some sort of extreme expectations from them (even though if you take away all the hypocritical propaganda behind that, down to the root they are payed killers), and breast feeding somehow ruins those expectations. No matter how i read it, putting it like that puts breast feeding as something shady to say the least. There for i go back to my initial post.
Thank you, @Anubis_theDark, for the second attempt, though I found it as feeble an attempt as the first. The root issue here is that you have issues with the military, despise authority you don't personally approve of, and try to force your opinion on to others by attacking their opinion, beliefs, methods, and lifestyles. Knowing that, I will try to tell you something quite simply once, but depending on your reply this may be my last communication with you. If you carefully read my post, you will see I have a high opinion of breastfeeding women, I hate formula and have seen sufficient evidence to show that formula is not only not as healthy as breast milk, but may be somewhat dangerous to children's health. In case you can't understand, I do very much prefer women breastfeed. Your assumption that I am saying breastfeeding is shady then, is superfluous. As for extreme expectations upon those in the military - there are indeed extreme expectations on military members - something you would know nothing, and care nothing about, so I won't bother trying to tell you about it; I will leave it at this, as a civilian, you have little to no idea about anything involving the military lifestyle, and it is resounding of pomp to suggest you know what expectations are placed upon us. If you read carefully, you will see that I question the logic behind openly breastfeeding in uniform (to me the idea seems a bit stupid, why draw the attention? The women aren't stupid; they know that breastfeeding doesn't qualify as the norm when in uniform, and the military is a traditional beast that slowly changes, if it ever does. Seems silly to tempt the military's standards over this choice.) You will also see that, imho, I think the military should consider openly allowing it for it may help moral - though I know they won't. Now, I suggest that before you post another reply, you remember to adhere to moddb posting rules.
My regards for the army ended a long time ago when i saw countries getting invaded for greed. And pls don't give me the ******** about democracy and protecting freedom - you're not talking to one of the morons that watch fox news. Military is exactly as it was 2000 years ago - mercenaries in the service of a state. That being said, i don't think i'm the one imposing my opinions on others. You see in this convo i'm the one that doesn't give a **** about the hypocrisy behind uniforms, be it military, religious or any other such 'high' morals related uniform. In this convo i'm the one that looks at 2 moms feeding their kids and don't give a crap about. So where is me imposing my opinions exactly? What i am sick about is all this ******** towards what we call sexually related images. I am tired of this hypocrisy where our society sells guns to 5 year old kids, where we have violence literally everywhere, where priests **** little kids, where drones kill entire innocent families, but the fken morals of seeing breasts or *** all of a sudden puts a shame on the whole hypocrisy.
I see your points, @Anubis_theDark. You actually hold some opinions I can relate to. I don't believe in an active Army. I switched from the Marine corps to the National Guard for the very reason that I don't believe the government should have an active military outside of war, and it should be made up of the Guard even then. A Guardsman serves the state of his residence, and that's what I personally do. I'm here to help during a crisis or disaster. I'm also here to protect against large foreign threats. Let me clear this up again though, because I still think you aren't quite understanding. I don't personally see anything wrong with two women feeding their infants. I do wonder as to why the would attract attention to themselves, when they KNOW what they are doing is not currently "acceptable" behavior by the institution they themselves took an oath to be a part of. Whether uniforms are tools of hypocrisy, or the military stands for nothing good, or anything else, doesn't matter. They joined of their own volition knowing the standards inherent to their chosen institution, and then decided to deviate from the path they chose. That to me seems silly. I don't join the church of Satan and then start talking about Jesus. I don't go to church and start talking about Satan. I don't go to prison and talk crap about prisoners. You see what I'm saying? It's not MY values they are conflicting with, if they are/where conflicting with any values at all, it's THEIR chosen institution's values (said institution being the Air Force), and they knew it before they joined, know it now, and will always know it. Why didn't they just avoid the situation? Why join something that has high standards, just to break them? If you don't want to act like a soldier, why join? I know I wouldn't have joined if I didn't believe I could handle it, and do some good for my country. I try to meet the standards of my institution, and be a better person because of it; I don't try to deviate from them.
All my respects however for the national guard and the army that helps when crisis (such as SWAT for ex - though that's the police) hits and order is needed. That is what in my opinion an army should do. I totally understand what you are saying on this one, and when you put it like this down to a point you have a point :P. However we live in a society that needs to frekin change it's old as **** and full of hypocrisy rules. So women like those stand against something old and something wrong. You could've said the same decades ago about a picture between a black man and a white woman - since that was downright illegal. What this women do is try to change narrow minded hypocrites basically (or even if they didn't exactly thought of that, the point of the picture is exactly that). Because in today's world, the only way to change hypocrisy is to fight it publicly and with images like this - since this society has some deep full of **** roots.
I agree; this country does need to change, in so many ways, you are totally correct. You also have a good point, one that I feel may actually be more than a point, but a legit action that may have a lasting effect when you say these women, whether intentional or not, stand for a change from narrow mindedness. I'll be the first to say that there is a lot of worthless and redundant things in our country, from the top to the bottom, and especially in the military. The policy "Don't Ask Don't Tell" was one of them, and I'm glad we repealed it. I may not be a homosexual, but I feel that any man wanting to protect our country should be allowed to in whatever way he is able to. I hope you are correct, I really do - the military could use a thorough cleaning of the napoleonic methods we have (for some unknown reason) adopted, and other issues. Nothing wrong with discipline, but you can't have a military made up of free citizens, and expect them to stop being free. I've always hated how the latter government took the militia made up of free citizens and turned us into something else. We should only wear a uniform and dress-right-dress during times of war and times of training. Trying to control every other aspect of our lives is dumb. However, until said time, I do what I must. It has been a pleasure talking with you!
Okay guys. Atleast they didn't take off their tops like the IDF scandal from few years ago.
Agreed...They are Airwomen...Not soldiers
Common people we all know why it was a scandal !!!
Becouse the military got jealous that they dont get any milk like the kids have
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Lol! Not a bad point!
I say: WTF @.@
Lucky baby lol
Well you can always ask your mom to let you suck on her tits again.
out of regulations AFI 36-2903. Also they are SSgt's in the air force. They should be reprimanded for this. They are breast feeding in uniform while they should not be in uniform taking these pictures. It seems the "medical" AFSC's do not reconize the standards that they have to abide by in 2903 and 36-2918. This is not the way NCO's should show that they approve of breast feeding while they are representing the Air Force. Yes if a woman in breastfeeding they should be given a room in their workplace in some cases, but to have a photographer take a picture of it is not within regulations.