An Air Force drill sergeant and former Iowa National Guard member who posed nude for Playboy magazine has been removed from active duty, she said Wednesday. Whether that amounts to an honorable discharge, as Michelle Manhart also says, is unclear.
Manhart, who appeared in a six-page spread in Playboy's February issue, said she got word Friday that she was removed from "extended active duty" and was also told that she was demoted in rank from staff sergeant to senior airman.
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She should be kicked out - I'm sure part of her oath was to honor her country and behave appropriately. Posing nude is not behaving appropriately while on active duty.
With today's professional military, even an Air National Guard Soldier knows you're going to get booted out! With both in the military, I gotta bet she/they knew exactly what would happen... and now she doesn't have to worry about being deployed.
This happened in the mid 70's with Playboy. They did a spread on all of the services and each of the services busted them then. She knew the rules going into this, got caught, now live with it.
How ironic that the same day you brought this up there would be an article in the paper saying the military is accepting more recruits with "felony convictions." The story said the military is taking more recruits "who have criminal records, medical problems or low apititude scores." My first reaction was she should be kicked out but I'd much rather have this confident woman serve than a bunch of drug addicts and dealers.
I don't believe she should have been discharged. It has nothing to do with how she performs her duties in the military. As stated above, there are far worse things she could have done.
Those accepted with felonies are held to the same military standard during their term of duty as anyone else (like this woman) in their term of duty. To compare this woman's actions after she joined the military to accepting people who committed crimes before entering the military is completely unrelated and illogical.
She is held to the same standard as those so-called felons who are accepted. If these felons re-offend, or commit an offense contrary to the UCMJ, they are charged accordingly with the crime. While she committed no "crime," she violated her agreement to maintain standards set.
If people can't live with that agreement, then they have no business in the military, or any occupation that expects any form of standards or contracts.
By the way, the military does not accept those who have committed capital crimes. Petty theft, minor drug posession, and the run-of-the-mill crimes that companies often accept are the same crimes committed by the so-called felons. Get your info straight before making sweeping generalizations.
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