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i'm not saying she did everything correctly, i'm just not prepared to hang her.
i'm not saying she did everything correctly, i'm just not prepared to hang her.There have been single parents in the military for quite some time. Some of them have been in tight spots like this. The difference is they worked with their commands.
no, things are not equal. and it's my thought that we should support women in their endeavors, not castigate them.
really, spiker, you are projecting a negative attitude onto this soldier and we don't even know the full story. and i still don't understand why this is embarrassing.
again, this is a single parent situation, not a single female parent situation.
i'm not excusing her actions, i'm just not prepared to lynch her OR pass judgement on women in the military.Tight spot - sure, they suck. She was fortunate to have a heads-up before deployment, time enough to plan for it.
What would have happened if she was called up on shorter notice and only had a few days (happens all the time)? (I would be more understanding of a short-notice deployment rather than her current deployment that was planned out in advance, btw).
Your support for your children is detailed. The military tells you to have plan A and plan B.
She didn't even have a plan B - and there we go. . .you might think it's excusable but you've never been in the military or deployed. There's a lot more to deploying a soldier than you're aware of.
The fact she is a woman is totally irrelevant. If a man did the same thing, he would be treated the same way, and yes there are male single parents in the military.
The fact she is a woman is totally irrelevant. If a man did the same thing, he would be treated the same way, and yes there are male single parents in the military.
that was my point to spiker.The fact she is a woman is totally irrelevant. If a man did the same thing, he would be treated the same way, and yes there are male single parents in the military.
i'm not saying she did everything correctly, i'm just not prepared to hang her.
Hutchinson of Oakland, Calif., was scheduled to deploy from Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah on Nov. 5. She skipped her unit's flight, saying the only relative she had to take care of her 10-month-old son - her mother - was overwhelmed by the task and backed out a few days before Hutchinson's departure date." (military.com)
I was stationed with Hutchison at Savannah's Hunter Army AirField in GA. I think she's right with what she's doing the command at Hunter dont care about there personnel. I myself know first hand. I was discharged for tattoo's that I already had when I entered the Army I served for 3 years and one day New command pretty much said I was no longer good enough to serve because of my tattoo's. I did a tour for 15 months in Iraq and my tattoo's were never a problem. I guess what im trying to say is the military can be really unfair and I think thats what there doing to Hutch treating her unfair. I hope after all is said and done the command at Hunter really takes a look at its leaders and re-thinks there approach the next time something like this happens instead of threatening there personnel with jail or foster care for there children.
Alexis Hutchinson, Army Mom Arrested for Refusing to Deploy, Says There's No One to Care for Baby
I am not sure what to say about this. This is wrong, on so may levels.
Hutchinson of Oakland, Calif., was scheduled to deploy from Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah on Nov. 5. She skipped her unit's flight, saying the only relative she had to take care of her 10-month-old son - her mother - was overwhelmed by the task and backed out a few days before Hutchinson's departure date." (military.com)
I can already tell this is going to turn into an OMG OUTRAGE!!!11 thread, so hopefully that can be preempted to some degree by forcing people to read the details:
It sounds like the Army has policies in place to prevent this from happening to single parents, but there was some confusion because the woman changed her plans last minute. I'm sure it will get resolved shortly.
She did find a place to put her kid, but they backed out a few days before her deployment.
Level 2, I agree that the level commander should be disciplined.
If all that is true, and she followed none of it. Then dishonorable discharge.
That would be using a sledgehammer to drive a nail, massive overkill. Other than honorable was made for these situations.
Nope. Because if it was willful negligence on her part to not follow the orders then it was a conscientious effort on her part to give reason to not be deployed. In that circumstance, she stole my money, broke her contract, left her unit a man down. Dishonorable discharge. Look at it this way, you can't spell dishonorable without honorable. And note, my opinion on that is based on the assumption that she didn't go through the procedures provided to assist with single-parent soldiers.
But that means court martial and more money spent on her.
That would be using a sledgehammer to drive a nail, massive overkill. Other than honorable was made for these situations.
Failure to make a movement rates a dishonorable discharge.
I just don't see it as worth the effort. Some one who misses movement has to be gone, but do it quick and easy and cheaply. The effect of an OTH is pretty similar to the effect of a dishonorable in the civilian world. In both cases, you can't get a job with the government or government contractor, but most every other employer won't even know about it.
If we let this gal off, then you'll send a message to anyone else that it's ok to miss movement, because there aren't going to be any real conciquences.
Other than honorable is not letting the gal off. That is the same discharge some one gets for failing a drug test.
Do you really think we can have an army involved in two wars ( which I wish we weren't in) if we let off everyone who says I was just kidding I don't feel like going
Hi, please read my post again. I specifically said I was not suggesting letting any one off. If you mean discharging people who won't go, what do you do, you cannot let people miss movements, you simply cannot. It would be bad for morale, it would be bad for discipline.
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