U.S. Air Force Requires Lactation Stations for Nursing Mothers

According to the Air Force Times, “The Air Force is now requiring units to provide private, secure and sanitary rooms for nursing mothers to breastfeed or express breast milk, according to a Wednesday release. In an Aug. 15 guidance memorandum, the Air Force outlined procedures and requirements for setting up lactation rooms that can be locked from the inside. Christy Nolta, deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for reserve affairs and airman readiness, said airmen at the grassroots level brought the lack of an Air Force-wide lactation room policy to the service’s attention. ‘Our job here is to do what we can to make it easier for airmen to serve,’ Nolta said. ‘Women shouldn’t feel like they must choose between serving and being a mother.’ The Air Force’s new memo also provides guidance for when mothers should be allowed lactation breaks. Supervisors should provide both military and civilian nursing mothers reasonable lactation breaks--defined by Air Force Instruction 44-102 as 15 to 30 minutes every three to four hours--for at least one year postpartum” (“Units must provide lactation space,” Air Force Times, Aug. 29, 2019). We wonder who will fight the enemy while the air “men” are breast feeding/pumping? Maybe they will grant 30 minute “time outs” from the fighting a few times a day. It is no small thing that the U.S. military has been turned into a social engineering experiment and in the process has been feminized, psychologicalized, homosexualized, lawyerized, and environmentalized.

(Friday Church News Notes, September 13, 2019, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)

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