Being pregnant in college can seem daunting, but with the right preparations, you can successfully be a great student and a great mother as well. It is important that you know your rights as a pregnant student, get the right gear, make a good schedule, manage your symptoms, and take care of your health.
The Army previously had no process to allow pregnant soldiers to be promoted without completing their professional military education course. Under the new policy, those on active-duty temporarily promoted due to pregnancy will have two years to complete the course.
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In 2019, the Army approved about 300 waivers for soldiers to be promoted temporarily to their next rank without attending their pre-promotion course due to a deployment, said Army Command Sgt. Maj. Mark Clark, the senior enlisted soldier for Army personnel. That process required soldiers to request the waiver through their chain of command.
Because of the rigidness of the STEP program, it prevents pregnant Soldiers from being eligible for promotion because they cannot attend their required NCO PME for the duration of their pregnancy and postpartum recovery — on average 15 months (Department of the Army, 2019a; Tann, 2015) (see Figure 1).
When a soldier becomes pregnant in the Army she is given the option to leave the military under honorable conditions or become non-deployable for the duration of her pregnancy.
In the Army, a woman who becomes pregnant after enlistment, but before she begins initial active duty will not be involuntarily discharged due to pregnancy. She can't enter active duty until her pregnancy is over (either through birth or termination).
Another significant change: the Army will open many Professional Military Education schools to pregnant officers and warrant officers. The Army will also allow pregnant NCOs to attend the Sergeant Major Academy and temporary promotions will remain available indefinitely for all pregnant and postpartum NCOs.
In the Marine Corps, one must give up legal custody (by court order) of their child(ren), and then wait one year or more before being eligible for enlistment. For Navy enlistments, the waiting period is six months and the court order must make it very plain that the transfer of custody is permanent.
Active Duty or in the National Guard but on Federal Active Duty will receive maternity care, prenatal care, and newborn care through TRICARE. The Army considers a birth event to be both giving birth and adoption. Also, when becoming a new parent, the birthparent receives 12 weeks of leave for those on Active Duty.
Section I. Finally, a Soldier must promptly tell her commander if she becomes pregnant so that the Occupational Medicine Clinic can be notified. A Soldier should know which operations in a unit could cause reproductive hazards. Specific occupational health limitations will be listed on a Soldier's pregnancy profile.
Pregnant service members are permitted to be on-ship up to their 20th week of pregnancy. Service members who have given birth will not deploy for service until one full year after their commanding officer (CO) learns that they've given birth.
Starting March 1, either parent of a Department of the Air Force military-to-military couple may now have up to 12 months to request separation from the service after the birth or adoption of a child.
Generally, a woman who is experiencing a normal pregnancy may continue to perform military duty until delivery and will not be placed sick in quarters solely on the basis of her pregnancy unless there are complications present that would preclude any type of duty performance.
However, there are some duties pregnant Soldiers may perform in the motor pool. They may, except after 20 weeks, perform preventive maintenance checks and services using impermeable gloves and coveralls.
Under the new policy, soldiers who are selected for promotion and meet every other standard except completing their required professional military education course can be advanced to their next rank, as long as the reason for missing that training is due to a deployment in support of a named operation or an imminent ...