Monday, November 16, 2009

Army Drops the Ball

Army Sends Infant to Protective Services, Mom to Afghanistan

Friday 13 November 2009 by: Dahr Jamail | Inter Press Service

Ventura, California - US Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is being threatened with a military court-martial if she does not agree to deploy to Afghanistan, despite having been told she would be granted extra time to find someone to care for her 11-month-old son while she is overseas.
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For the sake of argument let's just say Specialist Hutchinson was trying to get out of deployment. How is the Army brass justified in their actions? Hopefully the media spotlight this story is generating will shame someone into doing the right thing.

2 comments:

Lisa said...

Hi Hope,

Haven't heard from you in a while -- Merry Christmas! Hope all is getting on well with your P.A. program,

Best wishes,

Lisa

Cujo359 said...

And Happy New Year. Hope all is well.