A Numbers Game: Is DoD Hiding Pregnancy Statistics?

Ed Offley says the military is hiding some statistics:

Neither the Defense Department, U.S. Central Command nor the four armed services can, or will, say with precision how many female military personnel have been evacuated from Iraq or removed from units preparing for deployment because of pregnancies. For the past two years, anecdotal evidence has emerged that the rate of pregnancies among deployed military personnel has negatively impacted unit readiness and operational effectiveness in Iraq. However, military spokesmen for the most part say they are unable to provide statistics or reports on this controversial topic.



In fact, the Pentagon and DoD take strides to explain that they themselves are avoiding any meaningful examination of how pregnancies may hurt operational readiness.

There some interesting numbers in this story.Check it out.Thanks to Ray Starmann for the heads up on this one.