Wow this is an old thread revival...notice it is over 2 yrs old.
I agree with Clarkson because unfortunately the military is looking at downsizing.
I am curious about the contracting issue and medical coverage. The cadet is contracted, but not AD, and as a dependent (college student) would be on their parents insurance. AD member would be on the military insurance. Luckily pregnancy is 9 months, and long enough to sort it out. Our DS is a 400 (MSIV) and still is on our personal insurance, because by law he is still our dependent.
I would just look into the health insurance issue because if she is not on Tri-Care, the baby will not be on Tri-Care. Plus, some personal insurance programs only cover dependent children, which means the mother, not the baby unless they can prove that the grandchild is their dependent, or the father has the ability to claim the child on his insurance.
These are things people don't think about when it occurs. Ob/Gyn is not cheap, nor are all those ped visits and shots needed within the 1st 2 yrs of life.
If pregnancy occurs, think rationally and start getting your fiscal ducks in a row.
My other issue would be LDAC or SFT or Summer cruise. If you are pregnant, I would assume this may be an issue. For AFROTC, no SFT = no commissioning. So, no they can't kick you out, but if you are pregnant in your soph yr., it will put a huge stumbling block in front of you for commissioning purposes. They can defer you to your jr yr.
The det. may also require you to fill out a family plan. This is common in the AD world for single parents. Basically, they want to know if you are deployed who will take the child and care for it during the deployment. Summer training would fall under this area because the child is your dependent, not your folks, and they are going to through you out in an area that if the baby gets ill, and needs emergency care, they need to know who will be in charge of that.
Again, another reason to start planning as soon as the emotions calm down.
As much as you may want to stay in ROTC and achieve your goal regarding commissioning, there will be other factors that will be added into the equation once the child is born.
Dakota was fortunate enough to be married, unfortunately she returned to PT too early, but ask yourself who will watch the baby at O'dark thirty when you return to PT? It is pretty hard to find any daycare giver that will take a newborn at 5:30 a.m. and if you do find one expect to pay an arm and a leg.
Is your unit in commuting difference to live at home? If not will you move back home or will you move into off campus housing? That monthly stipend even as a contracted cadet will not pay for a month of diapers or food. Will you request to be transferred to a new unit/college so you can live at home if you can't afford to stat at your college?
As I stated earlier, I don't think the question about being allowed to stay in ROTC should be your priority because the cost of the loss of a scholarship will pale in comparison compared to the cost of raising the child in their 1st 2 yrs.
Aglahad,
I can understand why they don't want students to get pregnant during nursing school, especially when in their sr. yr they must do clinicals which can wear down the avg student with no child, let alone the student that must wake up every few hours to feed or change a crying child. We have 3 kids and they ran the gamut in that issue. Oldest slept through the night at the typical 6-9 week point. Middle slept 6 hours after 4 days. Youngest was 14 months.
I could not fathom being a single mother with academics, clinicals, and ROTC with any of my 3 and doing it successfully.
I also can't fathom how I would be able to afford to do it on my own with just 500-600 bucks a month from a stipend.
I hope for armynurse2B all worked out, but as the thread is 2 yrs old, we don't know the result.