Single mom dismissed from the Air Force and stripped of $92,000 tuition after becoming pregnant

[Young_Chitlin]

Moving forward, Ms Edmonds said she completed all of her physical and academic requirements. Being a Catholic, she said abortion was never an option for her. Instead she began planning her move to Virginia to begin her service. Once six months in, however, she felt she had to tell someone. With her news, first expressed as no issue by her immediate commanders, she was accused of committing fraud for having not reported changes in her medical status, 'for example, pregnancy,' as her ROTC contract signed in 2007 read. She was disenrolled.

Claiming to have questioned her officer who warned her of her ejection from the Air Force, she asked: 'Had I terminated the pregnancy before my commissioning, would I have been able to commission at that point?' According to Ms Edmonds: 'He said, "well, technically, yes." A spokesman for the Air Force to CNN denied knowing of that conversation taking place.' Any such counselling would have been inappropriate and I have seen no evidence of any such discussion,' Maj. Joel Harper wrote to CNN. 'However, Ms. Edmonds' case is under review by the Air Force Board for Correction of Military Records.'

Appealing to her congressman and hiring an attorney, Ms Edmonds learned that if she weren't a single mother before her commissioning, the Air Force's decision would have been far more lenient toward her. As military readiness goes, single parents don't have flexibility to serve in all times of need, they stated. '...she would have been able to commission if she were not a single parent, for example, if she were married, or had given the child up for adoption,' Air Force Colonel Kelly Goggin wrote to ms Edmonds' congressman.

Today, working as a paediatric nurse, Ms Edmonds owes the military $92,000 for her tuition but says she's paying it in increments of $100 a month, with interest. While the Air Force had been her life before, and to a large degree still is, she says it's now her 10-month old son, Dominic whom she says was never a mistake. Still though she hopes like the recent changes allowing openly gay men and women to serve in the U.S. military, change will come or even be considered for her one day. ‘I believe a woman has the right to choose life, go on to serve and reach [her] full potential, including being an officer in the Air Force,’ Ms Edmonds told CNN.

 

[Young_Chitlin]

 

[7figz]

The military not taking care of one it's own ? I'm appalled.

 

[Amotekun]

She's white not a single fuck given...

 

[Valentinez A. Kaiser]

taking interest aside $100/month for a $92,000 loan? That's basically 77 years of payback......lawse!

 

[BoldChild]

Too bad, should of had an abortion, or should have used protection.

The military expected her to serve after she graduated, and she bascially told them, "ehh, there is a problem guys, I'm pregnant."

 

[ocelot]

She's tried to get over on them... Niggas get kicked out for less.

 

[Ajackson17]

That's messed up and cruel. Well, that is how our government works.

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Smash

 

[huey]

craziness. hope she gets a book deal or something

 

[BoldChild]

"Once six months in, however, she felt she had to tell someone."

lol @ being 6 months pregnant and still not telling her boyfriend.

 

[CottonCitySlim]

Lol this is normal..she tried to beat the system with a pregnantcy chapter...it would seem

 

[Gold_Certificate]

Dumb whore should've gotten the abortion.

Justice has been served.

 

[Matt-]

Air Force forbids single parents from enlisting. The reason for the policy, according to Air Force officials, is that the demands of deployment and military service put strain on family life and even more so for single parents.

just b/c you don't agree with a rule doesn't give you the right to breach the contract

 

[Knives Amilli]

She's tried to get over on them... Niggas get kicked out for less.

Exactly. No fucks given. The military does not play that shit with single parents enlisting. AND she was going to be an officer, so she's held to an even higher standard. Her pregnant ass would've commissioned, but wouldn't have been able to go to her Officer Tech school or the Air and Space Basic Course.

 

[lighthearted26]

I thought u could sign custody over to someone if you're a single parent.

 

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[Knives Amilli]

I thought u could sign custody over to someone if you're a single parent.

You can as an Enlisted and joining the old fashioned way. She was going to be an officer and I imagine they're a bit more stricter about those things. Even so, she signed a ROTC contract saying that she has to report all changes in her health immediately for reasons just like this.

 

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[Knives Amilli]

I thought u could sign custody over to someone if you're a single parent.

You can as an Enlisted and joining the old fashioned way. She was going to be an officer and I imagine they're a bit more stricter about those things. Even so, she signed a ROTC contract saying that she has to report all changes in her health immediately for reasons just like this.

officers abide by a stricter code of ethics...

even after getting their bars, they are still shitted on for having a kid outta wedlock.

more or less pushed out of service due to extreme discrimination.

this aint shit happens more than yall know.

bitch had a contract, she broke it and she stuck with the bill.

she lucky she wasn't stuck with the FULL BILL cause it cost more than 100K just to train a single enlisted.

This is truth.

I gotta Puerto Rican homey whose dad is an Lt.Col...done worked at the pentagon and everything and has a 12 year old son back in Puerto Rico that the Military doesn't know about. He sends money every month for bills but that lill nigga is nowhere on his dependents forms.