Lactating women do not belong on active duty during peacetime.

Reader WJ

Adolf Hitler once said, “Give me five years and you won’t recognize Germany anymore.”

Well, we’ve given Barack Hussein Obama seven years and you can’t recognize the US Army anymore.

The Obama Administration is literally carpet bombing the military on a daily basis with directives, memos, policies and doctrine that if they weren’t actually happening would be considered to be something out of a Kafkaesque, Gloria Steinem nightmare.

Today, I examined a Memorandum for Record, dated September 20, 2015 and signed by the former Secretary of the Army, John McHugh.

You remember Secretary McHugh, he’s the guy who dodged and delayed Congressman Steve Russell after Russell requested the Ranger School records of the first two female “graduates”, Captain Griest and First Lieutenant Haver. I believe McHugh led the cover up of what actually happened down at Fort Benning, a conspiracy that continues to this day.

Stay tuned USDW readers…

McHugh’s Memorandum for Record is titled, Army Directive 2015-37(Breastfeeding and Lactation Support Policy)

Here are some highlights from the memo:

“Commanders and soldiers will balance lactation support and readiness.”

Readiness implies ready to fight and win wars. How are lactating, breastfeeding women contributing to the readiness of the US Army? Is a lactating woman going to deploy to a combat zone? Is she going to deploy with her child?

“Commanders will designate a private space with locking capabilities, an electrical outlet, and access to a safe water source for “soldiers” to express milk.”

The choices here are many: the arms room can store weapons for half the day then serve as a lactation station the other half. How about the battalion command sergeant major’s office? I can think of a particular command sergeant major who served five tours in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne Brigade and who would have loved his office to be used a lactating station. Not…

“Soldiers must supply the equipment needed to pump and store their breast milk.”

Shouldn’t lactating equipment be issued to all soldiers now? After all this is Obama’s Army.

Here comes the part where you have to sit down and read this:

“Soldiers who are breastfeeding or expressing milk remain eligible for field training and mobility exercises.”

So, a breastfeeding mother will deploy to the field and participate in field exercises while lactating? How is this going to happen? Is the mother going to bring her child to the field? Should the Army now bring tactical day care centers to field exercises with them?

If the mother doesn’t bring the child with them, how are they going to express and store milk in the field? I’m not an expert on the subject, but doesn’t breast milk spoil in 24 hours if not refrigerated? And, if it is refrigerated, it will last for seven days. So, is the Army going to provide mobile refrigeration facilities for breast milk in the field?

Apparently, the secondary duty of the mess sergeant will now be to secure, mark and refrigerate breast milk.

“Commanders will provide private space for soldiers to express milk during field and mobility exercises.”

Where are women going to express milk in the field? Are they going to have armored vehicles or special tents for them to do this while the field exercise is going on?

“The provisions of this directive are effective immediately and apply to the Active Army, Army National Guard and Army Reserve.”

I’m sure I can speak for millions of vets who never thought they would see the day when the US Army, breast milk expressing and lactation were used in the same sentence.

This memo was distributed to worldwide US Army commands, including my personal favorite, to the US Army Special Operations Command.

You have to believe that the Boys at Bragg and in Tampa loved that memo.

There may certainly be a new memo signed by the current Secretary of the Army, Eric Fanning, but I doubt anything has changed in the last few months, except probably for the worst.

This whole memorandum for record is absurd and shows the current fugue state the Army and the US military is operating in as a whole.

There have always been women in the Army, either working as civilians or as soldiers in some capacity. But, the Army never sent out memorandums for record establishing breastfeeding and lactation policies in garrison and in the field and on mobility exercises.

Goodbye Merrill’s Marauders, Hello Uncle Sam’s Day Care.

I can hear the naysayers now and the feminists already before they even comment. The small, but loud and powerful feminist lobby in the military thinks they can do it all. They can be combat soldiers, have kids, nurse in a tank and take the fight to the Russians before they head out to a Sanders rally.