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It was a fairly frequent occurance for female soldiers to get pregnant to avoid the duty station.
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How frequent? more so than is typical for females in that age group? is there hard evidence that pregnancy was used only as a tool for avoiding duty or just opinions? [/QUOTE]It was common knowledge that pregnancy was an "out" from duty in Kuwait (and other harship tours), and receiving female soldiers was frequently scheduled to maintain personnel levels and male/female racial quota's. Females actually went there infrequently enough for a 1 year tour (rather than a 3-6 month deployment) to make it something of an oddity. Having seen the numbers of females who were deferred because of pregnancy my conjecture is that pregnancy was used as a way to avoid getting sent to the desert.
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