This is the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard: a “maternity” flight suit. When I was on active duty, we were’t allowed to wear a flight suit unless we were on the schedule (meaning scheduled to fly that day). Once a pregnant woman was unable to pull the stick or yoke back far enough to fly the aircraft safely, she’d be grounded. Hence no need for a “maternity” flight suit. If you were to encounter a woman in a “maternity” flight suit today, I’m guessing she’s already grounded b/c she couldn’t operate the plane safely.
When a woman is assigned to a ship gets pregnant, she must be assigned to shore duty at 5 months and remains ashore until she delivers her baby and finishes maternity leave. The downside to this is the ship usually doesn’t get a replacement while she’s away and the remaining crew members must pull double-duty as a result.
The reason the services tend to keep pilots on active duty while pregnant is b/c they spend so much money to train them and it takes a long time to “grow” a pilot. I tend to agree with mizzAmerica45 about the military being desperate for people to join. By instituting all these changes they’re not improving the military but pandering to the feminist women who run / influence the military. Sad to see.
This is the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard: a “maternity” flight suit. When I was on active duty, we were’t allowed to wear a flight suit unless we were on the schedule (meaning scheduled to fly that day). Once a pregnant woman was unable to pull the stick or yoke back far enough to fly the aircraft safely, she’d be grounded. Hence no need for a “maternity” flight suit. If you were to encounter a woman in a “maternity” flight suit today, I’m guessing she’s already grounded b/c she couldn’t operate the plane safely.
When a woman is assigned to a ship gets pregnant, she must be assigned to shore duty at 5 months and remains ashore until she delivers her baby and finishes maternity leave. The downside to this is the ship usually doesn’t get a replacement while she’s away and the remaining crew members must pull double-duty as a result.
The reason the services tend to keep pilots on active duty while pregnant is b/c they spend so much money to train them and it takes a long time to “grow” a pilot. I tend to agree with mizzAmerica45 about the military being desperate for people to join. By instituting all these changes they’re not improving the military but pandering to the feminist women who run / influence the military. Sad to see.