Leave PC to the police

Quote of the moment:
"A former lieutenant colonel says the ban on sexual relationships between men and women in the Armed Forces is "outdated" and should be scrapped." - BBC news.

She was in the nursing corps until they were amalgamated into the logistic corps. Perhaps back there away from the front line it wouldn't matter so much, but in the artillery and engineers, who are in the actual combat area, having relationships between people in the same command structure that could interfere with the running of that structure is blatantly foolish. This is particularly true of relationships between officers and other ranks, because officers have to treat everyone equally. That obviously wouldn't work if they were going out with one of them.

Relationships between people in the army who don't actually work directly together can work (as shown on Soldier, Husband, Daughter, Dad) but that obviously restricts the roles available to people in the same regiment. More importantly, what if two parents are both sent to war? What happens to their children? Let alone the problems of peace time postings to seperate places, that one argument prevents it. Would she recommend placing those children in social care, or does she expect the Army to provide for them out of its repeatedly slashed budget? Otherwise one of them will have to be removed from their unit just before it goes to war, so that the carefully trained team is incomplete. How handy!

Coming soon: political correctness advocates urge Army to accept disabled recruits!