'Flammable' bras hold back Swedish female conscripts
Published: 22 Sep 09 15:02 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/22228/20090922/
The bras issued to Swedish female military conscripts easily catch fire and are prone to coming undone, making them inappropriate for the battlefield, claims a conscripts’ rights group.
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“Our opinion is that the Swedish Armed Forces should have ordered good, flame-proof underwear,” Council spokesperson Paulina Rehbinder told The Local.
“There should be suitable apparel for women.”
The poor quality of the standard-issue sports bras prompted a group by female soldiers at the LV 6 military base in Halmstad to voice their displeasure to representatives from the Council recently.
The women complained that the bras’ fasteners have a tendency to come undone when the women performed rigorous exercise, forcing the female soldiers to take off all of their equipment in order to refasten the brassieres.
In addition, the bras aren’t flame resistant and, once lit, can melt onto conscripts’ skin, the Göteborgs-Posten (GP) newspaper reports.
The Council’s Rehbinder accuses Sweden’s military establishment of dragging its feet on the issue.
"It has not been a priority for the higher ups because women make up only around five percent of the Swedish armed forces," Rebinder said, adding that the problem of suitable clothing for Sweden’s female soldiers has existed for more than two decades.
But she hopes a fresh batch of Swedish military recruits may help press the issue with the Armed Forces’ top brass.
"Earlier this year the National Service Administration (Pliktverket) informed them that around 2,000 female recruits were due to enter the service next year. That got them moving,” she said.
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It happens not only in Sweden.
Not only are your female soldiers so hot their bra's spontainiously combust but they also fly off.
Is this a new Swedish Weapon of Mass Distraction ?
Do you need any English recruits in Sweden ? I'd even take a pay cut.
Firstly whoever is in charge of purchasing in the army, needs to be fired immediately.
Military clothing has to meet agreed specifications. If it does not, the goods should not be paid for. This sounds like a corrupt deal. Why has that not been investigated?
I heard of hot women in Sweden, but demanding Nomex bras??? But I guess Swedish women in the military must go out to put out a fire in their underwarez?
I'm not rocket scientist, but if these women are doing heavy exercise, why don't they use sports bra's where there's nothing to come lose??? Like the rest of the women athletes out there...
How is it a bad thing that they come off easily? LOL
And for those bra burning Femi-nazi groups in sweden... they should make a big order from the swedish army... it makes their bra burnings tasks easier?
and obviously for prurient purposes...
I would not do that...
But, then, you would not pay for the flight, board and the party needs I would request, either....
Sigh...
I do hope the women get proper clothing and accouterments...
I hope they forgive my dreaming...