Ban on sex for soldiers in Afghanistan is lifted ... sort of

[unhappycamper]

Ban on sex for soldiers in Afghanistan is lifted ... sort of
By Drew Brown, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Wednesday, May 14, 2008

JALALABAD, Afghanistan — Single soldiers and civilians working for the U.S. military in Afghanistan can now have sex legally. Sort of.

A new order signed by Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Schloesser, commander of Combined Joint Task Force-101, has lifted a ban on sexual relations between unmarried men and women in the combat zone.

General Order No. 1 outlines a number of prohibited activities and standards of conduct for U.S. troops and civilians working for the military in Afghanistan. Previously, under the regulation, sexual relations and "intimate behavior" between men and women not married to each other were a strict no-no. The regulation also barred members of the opposite sex from going into each other’s living quarters unless they were married to each other.

But the latest version of General Order No. 1 for Afghanistan, which Schloesser signed April 19, eases those restrictions.

The new regulation warns that sex in a combat zone "can have an adverse impact on unit cohesion, morale, good order and discipline."


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=54774

[PDJane]

1. I wonder

if rape is covered under those rules, or is that just boys being boys?

[Crowman1979]

2. Maybe if we send some damn porn over there...

...then we would have this problem. The unit I was in at least sneaked in a few "Playboy's", then jerked off later in the head. No sex crimes ever happened and I think porn mags helped prevent that.