Deployed US Navy Has a Pregnancy Problem, and it’s Getting Worse

Those who have’t served don’t know how hard it is to be deployed short-handed. You don’t get a replacement for a pregnant sailor. 

Second, all of the time that they are on active duty and not doing their jobs, they are racking up retirement time and taking jobs from sailors who should be on shore duty. 

Deployed US Navy Has a Pregnancy Problem, and it’s Getting Worse | The Stream

A record 16 out of 100 Navy women are reassigned from ships to shore duty due to pregnancy, according to data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group. That number is up 2 percent from 2015, representing hundreds more who have to cut their deployments short, taxing both their unit’s manpower, military budgets and combat readiness.