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| Diggers fighting in Afghanistan banned from free cryogenic deposits |
| 2010-02-24 |
| DIGGERS fighting in Afghanistan have been banned from having their sperm frozen and stored at taxpayers' expense. More than a dozen soldiers joined the program before they left for Afghanistan in case they were killed or wounded and rendered infertile. But Defence officials have ruled that soldiers need a valid medical reason to join the "free" fertility service. Ummmmmmmm...how about, "unlike a "defence official", I may get killed"? Ten unauthorised samples from Diggers sent to battle the Taliban have been removed from storage. Three samples remain in storage at public expense. At least four American war widows conceived after their husbands were killed in action. Jennifer Ward, the Melbourne mother of slain Digger Benjamin Ranaudo, said it was a disgrace the same service had been denied to Aussie soldiers heading to battle zones. "Our boys are heading off fighting for freedom and their country," she told the Herald Sun. "You'd think Defence could pay a few dollars to freeze some sperm for them." |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #3 But Defence officials have ruled that soldiers need a valid medical reason to join the "free" fertility service. Bureaucratic drones usually don't have 'a set' or very small ones that are basically evolutionarily ornamental and therefore can't comprehend a warrior caste being interested in doing this. The bureaucrat, instead, would be happy to remove the strain from the population to begin with. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-02-24 15:22 |
| #2 put it in the frezzer wives and hope the other kids don't think it's a popscicile |
| Posted by: chris 2010-02-24 13:33 |
| #1 Looks like Australian government officials are starting to get a bit too removed from reality as well. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-02-24 11:13 |