One way to get out of extended active duty

[frogcycle]

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/military/news-article.aspx?storyid=75978

Of course, few could qualify, but hey, if ya got it, flaunt it!


Drill Sergeant in Playboy Removed from Active Duty

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Michelle Manhart (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Michelle Manhart

NBC News Channel Report




SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- An Air Force drill sergeant who posed nude for Playboy magazine has been removed from active duty, she and the Air Force said Wednesday.

Michelle 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 from staff sergeant to senior airman.

"I'm disappointed in our system," Manhart told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "They went too far with it."

Manhart said that she was reverted to her Air National Guard status and that she submitted a "resignation" to the Guard, which she said is pending. Manhart was a member of the Iowa Air National Guard before going on extended active duty.

Oscar Balladares, a spokesman for Lackland Air Force Base, confirmed that Manhart was removed from extended active duty Friday but said Lackland did not discharge her.

"She was removed from active duty status, and thus reverted to National Guard status," Balladares said. "It is not up to the Air Force -- it is not our jurisdiction to discharge her."

Lt. Col. Greg Hapgood, a spokesman for the Iowa National Guard, said that because the Guard did not have "documentation of her separation" from the Air Force, it did not have her on duty status.

Manhart, a 30-year-old mother of two, said the military's action against her hinged on the fact that she was pictured wearing her uniform.

She was photographed in uniform yelling and holding weapons under the headline "Tough Love." The following pages showed her partially clothed wearing dog tags and fully nude. After the pictorial hit newsstands in January, Manhart was relieved of her duties pending an investigation.

[RawMaterials]

1. You go girl

Its a shame, that you cant do with you own body what you want.
I guess in this case it maybe works out for her, but not if she wanted to be
In the air force.

[frogcycle]

2. "I'm disappointed in our system... they went too far"

"I'm disappointed in our system," Manhart told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "They went too far with it."

Translation: she only wanted to be returned to inactive status, not demoted.
:)

[baldguy]

3. War porn is good

Sex porn is bad

[conscious evolution]

4. I'm not so sure this is a bad idea

I will need more photos of her to be sure.
Please post ASAP!

[frogcycle]

6. Sorry, you'll have to buy the mag

not on my reading list

oh, back in high school I read it "for the stories" - or was it "for the articles" - or "for the cartoons" - I forget - but haven't seen it in a cpl of decades

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. You do know (on a serious note) that King

got his first serious break in Play Boy

[frogcycle]

8. not in to serious right now...

you referring to MLK?

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Yep, his first short stories were

first run on Play Boy... in the 60s.

In fact they have been reisued over the last ten years.

What is more... I found some of them one day when I went to visit my parents. They had not thrown then out, my brother's stash that is...

Hell, I don't think my parents really "knew" they had them.

Those mags were an incredible view into the 1960s, yep the articles... bad photography though... but given they were well, playboy, bringing them across the border could be a tad dangerous...

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. hate to tell you this

but she is lucky they did not do a full article 15 on her

Something about conduct unbecoming

[uppityperson]

9. Violence=good. Bodies=bad