Female Soldiers Given a Year to Fit into Dress Uniforms After Pregnancy

[rangerrebew]

Female Soldiers Given a Year to Fit into Dress Uniforms After Pregnancy
 
5 Oct 2021
Military.com | By Steve Beynon

Women in the Army now will be excused from wearing dress uniforms for up to a year after giving birth, according to a new service policy reviewed by Military.com.

There had been no specific guidance before on how long female soldiers had after a pregnancy to squeeze into a dress uniform. Now, they can wear Army combat and maternity uniforms in lieu of dress uniforms -- and they can't be penalized for appearing in those uniforms at promotion boards, Army policy says.

"This gives a reasonable amount of time to get [Army service uniforms] back on and not have to buy a different uniform," Sgt. Maj. Ashleigh Sykes, the Army's G-1 Uniform Policy Branch sergeant major, told Military.com.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/10/05/female-soldiers-given-year-fit-dress-uniforms-after-pregnancy.html

[rangerrebew]

If, after the year, they still can't get back into the uniform, all they'll have to do is claim sexism and the military probably won't give them an extension of a day over 30  years to get it right.

[EdinVA]

I am certainly ecstatic that the Pentagon is working on such demanding issues rather than say, Afghanistan evacuation plans...

[Fishrrman]

Somehow, I think that "Fishrrman's Credo" may apply here:
Reality is what it is. It is not what we believe it to be.