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[RangerWickett]

"Bigger breasts offered as perk to US Soldiers."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5487712/?GT1=4244

This is the most . . . wrong thing I've heard in a while. I just can't really express how confused I am at this. You'd think, y'know, that, like, big breasts might be a bit of a detriment in a combat situation. And should soldiers really need to get liposuction? Shouldn't they already be physically fit? Despite what the movies say, I'd like to think that John Candy couldn't get into the army.

Well, actually, if he enlisted, I'd let him join. Army of undead. Oh yeah.

 

[JPL]

Well, they really helped Demi Moore float during her SEAL training.

The lipo's a little odd. I know some branches have a special program for recruits who show up overweight or too weak to complete basic, but normally you think of lipo as an aesthetic procedure...

 

[Pielorinho]

Heh. They thought they could get away with it, but they got busted.

Daniel

 

[diaglo]

the report is biased.

those numbers include dependents.... aka.. spouses and kids...

 

[RangerWickett]

Ah, that makes more sense.

I recall a 'joke' from Babylon 5: Crusade. A group of guys are being all manly and aggressive, and the woman with them says, "I'm drowning in a sea of testosterone."

To which one of the men drunkenly replies, "Fortunately, you are equipped with flotation devices."

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

The magazine quoted an Army spokeswoman as saying, “the surgeons have to have someone to practice on.”

Why do military surgeons need to practice liposuction and giving breast implants at all?

I could see it now: M*A*S*H 2004

"Hawkeye, a roadside bomb hit a convoy! We need you in surgery now!"

"This looks bad, lets start with removing the shrapnel and controlling the bleeding...my god, look at that flabby butt! Nurse, get the liposuction kit STAT!"

 

[drothgery]

If you want a serious answer...

Many of the same techniques used for purely cosmetic plastic surgery are also used for reconstructive plastic surgery. And, well, being a soldier tends to increase the likelyhood that you'll need the latter.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

If you want a serious answer...

Many of the same techniques used for purely cosmetic plastic surgery are also used for reconstructive plastic surgery. And, well, being a soldier tends to increase the likelyhood that you'll need the latter.

I can buy that for some cosmetic surgery, heck, even for breast implants, but liposuction? What kind of reconstructive techniques does liposuction teach?

 

[Dark Jezter]

"Bigger breasts offered as perk to US Soldiers."

God bless America.

*wipes tear from eye*

 

[Elf Witch]

As an ex military wife I say go for it. The bottom line is that military personel get paid squat. We were on food stamps at one time. Which I always found rather a sad statement of how important Washington felt about the men and woman who aew willing to risk their lives for their country.

So they get a little perk of having cosmetic surgery on the tax payers dime. I think that it is not going to break the budget.