True. Except that the pregnant Marine is dead, the Saudi blogger likely will be if he speaks his mind, and the knitting podcast is just the sound of needles clacking together...
It is, nevertheless, a world that gets stranger everyday.
I know two fans (and I'm pretty darn sure you know one of them) that I believe were well acquainted with the term "pregnant Marine" more than 40 years ago, as both of these fans had parents that met in the Marine Corps and (IIRC) both mothers had to leave the Marines when they became "pregnant Marines".
The Marine Corps Women's Reserve Schools — officer candidate and boot training along with certain specialist schools — opened in July 1943 under the command of Colonel John M. Arthur. Officer candidates and recruits in training at Mount Holyoke and Hunter Colleges were transferred to Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina, where nearly 19,000 women became Marines during World War II. http://www.nps.gov/archive/wapa/indepth/extContent/usmc/pcn-190-003129-00/sec5.htm
I think the odds of 19,000 fit, healthy and trained female marines abstaining for their military career to be quite low, which gives a very high probability that *at least one* became pregnant during her military duty.
But you'll have to check with Marcia to get the full details :-)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-16 02:12 am (UTC)It is, nevertheless, a world that gets stranger everyday.
(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-16 03:05 am (UTC)The Marine Corps Women's Reserve Schools — officer candidate and boot training along with certain specialist schools — opened in July 1943 under the command of Colonel John M. Arthur. Officer candidates and recruits in training at Mount Holyoke and Hunter Colleges were transferred to Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina, where nearly 19,000 women became Marines during World War II.
http://www.nps.gov/archive/wapa/indepth/extContent/usmc/pcn-190-003129-00/sec5.htm
I think the odds of 19,000 fit, healthy and trained female marines abstaining for their military career to be quite low, which gives a very high probability that *at least one* became pregnant during her military duty.
But you'll have to check with Marcia to get the full details :-)