@SaucyCheryl the defense department is ignoring it too. When Mattis got that tweet he stated he was going to ignore it.

@SaucyCheryl because they generally only give out six months at a time of ANY prescription. One could argue that they could get the other 6 months worth whilst home on RnR.

I think there is a broader policy in place that affects ALL prescriptions....but that it's only the BCPs during a deployment that seem to be causing issues.

@SaucyCheryl because, honestly, this is just an issue of poor planning on the part of the female soldier but I will grant that the doctors and senior NCOs need to explain things better and help the female troops prepare for deployments better.

@SaucyCheryl manufactured outrage is not conducive to fixing this....again, with proper planning and good pre-deployment information and options, this wouldn't be an issue. Tens of thousands of female troops HAVE deployed and not faced issues.

@SaucyCheryl Please re-read. I didn't say that deployments are six months. Duh. Have you ever deployed? Because I have. But, there is RnR in any deployment longer than 9 months. Therefore, a woman who PREPLANNED could take 2-3 months of pills with her...and have MORE mailed from home....or pick up more whilst on RnR -- which generally happens 4-8 months into a year long deployment.

It's a PLANNING issue. It's a personal responsibility issue. I don't think you read anything that I wrote.

Men who are required to be on prescriptions are often discharged as unfit to deploy.....we could just start discharging all the women that insist on having prescriptions on a deployment....they aren't now because there are alternatives to BCPs.

You seem to be forgetting that men aren't allowed to have prescriptions on deployments. Or probably you didn't know that at all.

@SaucyCheryl

I still am on Tri-Care (retired). So, I think I qualify more as an expert on how this all works than you do. If you would read what I wrote....you might understand.

But, there is no reasoning with you from my decades of experience, so I'm done.

@SaucyCheryl wow. I see how much you care about military service! LOL

hahahahahahahahahahahaha

You don't care about women in the military at all! you just want something to bitch about. Also, pigs are smarter than dogs....so, not really an insult.

LOL

It is the height of hypocrisy that they would give Viagra to make it easier to impregnate women and deny those same women birth control. Unbelievable