Military Moms Breastfeeding in Uniform Stir Controversy

[BattyDem]

119. I didn't mix up anything.

I saw women feeding their children and thought nothing of it. You compared it to a man baring his chest in a sex magazine.

You say that it isn't you who has a problem with their uniforms, but in your original post, you said: "I hate this picture. These women are in uniform. All soldiers are suppose to honor the uniform. I don't mind the breastfeeding but do it in civilian cloths."

The link to the article in the OP clearly states that "there is no policy that addresses breastfeeding in uniform." The article also says that military moms are "encouraged to pump and bottle-feed their babies while they're in uniform." Encouraged, not required ... so it seems that the military does not want to go on record with a regulation that says a mother feeding her child while in uniform is improper. People may be uncomfortable with it, they may even be angry about it ... but I doubt the military would dare suggest that feeding a hungry child is dishonoring the uniform! The publicity from these photos may change that, but then it would be the military itself that is guilty of dishonoring the uniform by reducing every brave woman who has ever served to a pair of breasts.