I find the USA WTF facebook page (with over a million followers) has morphed from the old meme generating and ridiculous army moments into trying to do that plus be some quasi news/whistleblower site. its does a poor job of the latter. we've all heard the horror stories from patients/parents/NCOs that don't pass the sniff test, and when the actual details emerge the story is nothing near what they have exaggerated it to be. lately they've had **** on there of basically normally activity but it's all taken out of context. occasionally legit stuff is on there but I'm skeptical about most of it anymore.
that being said, there is always pressure from commands to push these regs. I have people in theater who did their pre-deployment medical processing 3 months (!!!) prior to deploying. at that point it's almost useless. we have evac'd pregnant soldiers from here. we also evac'd pregnant soldiers out of NTC-- which was the right thing to do. but this "right thing" was only after BDE JAG told the BDE Commander that he couldn't even send pregnant but less than 20 week soldiers to stay in the admin/RUBA area which was his initial plan.
the truth is probably somewhere in the middle, and I'm sure there will be an investigation. the CO has a good point with the social media issue-- things escalate so fast now that misinformation, if it hits the public first, is taken as fact. i think his response was measured and in this case will be interesting to see USA WTF's response.
--your friendly neighborhood even though there's no way you can be pregnant I'm testing you anyway caveman
