this is what i figure. my uncle was in Afghanistan for a year and he was able to come home for thanksgiving for a few days about 6 months into his tour. i doubt that she would be proudly displaying her pregnancy if he wasnt the father.
Haven’t you learned anything from this site? People are stupid. There are plenty of people who can’t do the math about things like this.
Now, MAYBE he was lucky enough to get a few days home. MAYBE she and he had embryos frozen and she thawed one out 7 or 8 months before he was due back. But it still lokks awfully suspicious.
okay, so are those the only options we are looking at? this is a fail fail. the most probable option is that that little boy is not hers – it only say that that boys father was there for 12months. we have no idea how long the pregnant girls babydaddy was gone for, it could have been less, like 6 months.
Or it was a typo on the part of the news organisation. I’m surprised no one has entertained that idea. In spite of all the sane responses that the guy probably had leave, from service members no less, there are a lot of commenters who just want to believe the worst about any woman. =/
Not that women can’t be stupid or duplicitous, but that’s an awful lot of paint for a woman who knows her husband isn’t the father. The last time I checked, abortion was legal.
Had the embryos FROZEN? Have we really advanced so far in science and medicine that we can freeze live-unborn humans and then thaw them out without killing them?
Damn how did I miss THAT?
Anyway, sometimes people in the military/navy/etc are allowed to return home once or twice a year while serving so its not impossible for the child to be his if he was say… visiting on Christmas and returning in June.
Also, is it not possible this particular soldier joined the war after it had already begun? He could have served up to 9 months that way.
Actually, we have advanced that far. Embryos are frozen when they are only a few cells, around 8, and can be unfrozen and implanted in the mother safely.
Having served “active duty” for roughly a decade, I can tell you there is such a thing as leave. It’s crazy, you get to go someplace else other than the suck for that period of time. It’s been around for awhile too. Crazy business that leave stuff.
Bob, you were getting screwed by Uncle Sam, or your captain really had it out for you. My ex husband did one tour in Iraq for 12 months and got 2 weeks of leave after being there for 4.
Not saying this woman didn’t cheat, but soldiers do get leave… usually.
My dad served three tours in Iraq from 6-8 months and didn’t get a mid-term, but my brother is in Korea for a year and he’s coming home for mid-term in a few months.
So this is probably just a mid-term, near-end-of-term, baby lol
if your tour is less than a year, you dont get leave. if it is a year you get fifteen days. if it is 15 months, then you get eighteen days of leave. annoying when people that dont know what they are talking about assume the worst
Ugh. Air Force people are obnoxious about their deployments. My boyfriend was sick of Airmen bragging about how they were in Iraq for “the big 120″ (meaning 120 days)…especially when he was 10 months into a 15 month deployment.
Ummm, rather than being jealous of the Air Force, how about joining it? I was in the Air Force and had Army guys coming up to me all the time telling me how lucky I was and trying to make me feel guilty. My answer to them, at the recruiters office there were multiple doors with multiple military branches; no one told you to take the Army door but yourself.
youre an idiot. ive been to afghanistan and iraq. got mid tour both times. but.. i guess that only happens when youre there for longer than 4-6 months. 12-15 mo = mid-tour leave. you fail
I know for a fact the two of the three times i have been to Iraq it was pretty much mandatory for every one in theater to take R&R Leave. You probably didn’t take leave on your own accord, and or you were in Iraq for less than a year a each time you were deployed in which case you would not be granted leave. And are you really on active duty? What unit are you with?
Yea, you definitely got screwed If you served a 12 month tour and you never got leave. I have never known anyone who DIDN’T get leave. Including my husband.
exactly what i was going to say, individuals who do a 12+ tour of duty get a 2 week leave time alotted to them called R&R where they get to fly home to see their family.
Military members almost always get an R&R time while deployed. If he was deployed for 12 months he’ll get 2 weeks R&R. That’s plenty of time to make a baby! So not suspicious at all.
or… this is a fail fail. the most probable option is that that little boy is not hers – it only say that that boys father was there for 12months. we have no idea how long the pregnant girls babydaddy was gone for, it could have been less, like 6 months (or as people below pointed out – on leave)
I remember seeing the original of this and according to the article, she did get pregnant during his 2-week mid-tour leave and the envelope she was holding was the ultrasound photo that she hadn’t looked at yet.
Yup! Many babies are conceived on that R&R and its sad how many ignorant people automatically assume there was no way that could be his child just because he was gone for the rest of the time.
I agree Mae. Its ignorant and mean to assume its not his baby. I am an Army wife and most people have r & r babies. With so many back to back deployments, so many couples are seperated during the pregnancy.
she looks 6 months max, especially for a second child since you usually carry bigger for the second one. 8-9 months is much bigger unless you are an anorexic movie star (and r and r doesn’t always happen at exactly 6 months, depending on if they can get away from where they are working or not.)
You’re absolutely right. My husband came home after just 4 months for his R&R because that is when they would have a replacement for him. No other time would work. During a different deployment, he left a short time after we found out we were expecting and came home in time for the birth.
This photo is not a FAIL, the person who posted it is.
Everyone carries differently. When I was almost at term I had lots of people asking me if I was 7 months along. I currently have a friend who is pregnant with her first, and she’s enormous. She’s been bigger than another mutual friend for the last few months, and our other friend was due a month earlier. My huge pregnant friend has looked about 9 months pregnant for the last two months.
I got to pick the date of my leave..its depends on your unit..I think…Some guys went on leave in December..after just getting there in late October..I waited till July when I knew it was gonna be the hottest…Also if you have deaths in your family you get emergency leave…So its really not that surprising…
It not always at 6 months. Not the best idea so send an entire unit, who deploy at the same time, on leave at the same time. They are staggered usually starting about about 3 months in to about 10 monhs in. That way there is never an apreciable percentage of a unit not available for duty.
just because it is called midtour r&r doesnt mean it is in the exact middle of the tour. use some common sense. a unit will deploy together and they cant take leave together at the same time so they let a certain number of guys go at a time that is spread out throughout the tour. your all a bunch of retards
Im not sure if civillian public is aware of procedures in the US Army but being from the military myself im familiar with how it works. They do give us 2 weeks of leave, sometimes you get screwed and get it in the first 2 months of the tour or maybe in the last 2 months… either way if he came home for leave got her pregnant then returned to Iraq this is entirely plausible. I want every idiot here who gives army kids flak for being to stupid to go to college to give yourself a fail for not being able to do math.
Every one I know that has been to Iraq, and that’s quite a bit of people since I work at Walter Reed, gets roughtly 2 weeks of leave sometime during their tour.
Um, Duh. Its and R and R baby. Thats the 3 weeks sometime during thier tour that they get to come home. I got prego with our 2nd during my husband’s r and r and was 6 moonths prego when he got home. Damn, some of you guys are so retarded.
I am pretty sure if the guys and gals are gone for at least 12 months, they get to come home for 1 or 2 weeks for R&R. Not all of them do, I bet. But I’m gonna have to give this one the benefit of the doubt. The media could have picked a better caption, though!
That’s not really a fail, she probably got pregnant on his mid-tour leave. Tons of people in the military conceive on R&R and it has nothing to do with cheating on one’s deployed spouse.
I was going to say this as well. I was in the Army for 8 years. I got two week’s R&R while on my last 12 month deployment. Everyone else did too. Plenty of time to conceive. The R&R is staggered for the unit, so some people may get their leave as early as 3 months in while others may get it as late as 2 months from going home for good.
Good idea to write that, bad idea to be photographed.
Assuming it was a case of shore leave, the dad would probably be overjoyed and very touched. We’re just spoiling a beautiful moment with dirty innuendo.
that’s what I want to say. It’s never said that the person with the writing on the belly is the child’s mother. For all we know, that could be his aunt, who happens to be pregnant and waiting for her husband who is in the same troop to come home.
WOW THIS IS TOTALLY FAIL BECAUSE HE COULD POSSIBLY BE THE FATHER SINCE SOLDIERS STATIONED IN IRAQ OBVIOUSLY NEVER GET A CHANCE TO COME BACK HOME AT ANY POINT DURING THEIR TOUR…. oh wait…
The fail here is from the person who submitted the picture. The guys that get deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan get a two week leave period where they come home.
We don’t know who the little boy’s mother is. Therefore, the pregnant woman’s husband (or boyfriend) could have been stationed for less than 12 months.
This one is really dumb, the soldiers DO get to come home on leave. My SIL was over there for a year and was home half way through her tour for two weeks. Enough time to get pregnant!
It wasn’t her kid. A woman from behind, (who has a wedding ring on), is grabbing the boy, (who is holding a flag and wearing the nice sweater vest) by his collar since he was so excited to see his dad and is running toward him.
Parenting fail on the run away? Maybe. Kids love to see a parent who has been gone for awhile.
Paternity fail? No. the kid wasn’t hers AND no one knows HOW she ended up pregnant with the baby. I could have happened when he was on leave or she could have been pregnant when she met the guy.
But I just want to say, no matter where you live, whatever country, lets respect our service men and women. Flame me for that, I won’t care. I’ve had too many relatives who have been hurt by the fighting while in service.
Almost 100% sure that within that 12 month tour of service he was able to come home for a few weeks, the army does allow that during tours of service so, its not as funny when you think about it really =p
failblog is hilarious but EVERYTHING about this post is an EPIC FAIL…as a Soldier I can tell you he got 2 weeks R&R leave during his 12 months and that’s when the baby was conceived which is APPARENT since she is advertising..otherwise she’d be home hiding…and everybody who commented otherwise is an EPIC INTELLIGENCE FAIL…losers
Also, did anyone consider that this could be an older daughter of the soldier coming home, carrying his grandchild? She wrote “daddy” on her belly – might not be speaking for the fetus she’s carrying, but might actually be referring to her own daddy coming home.
12-month tours have a mid-tour leave between the 5th and 7th months. You don’t stay in theater for the entire 12 months. Otherwise, everyone that deployed for a year might lose 30 days of leave.
Are people actually this stupid, or are they just pretending to try and be funny? It’s not hard to understand that the lady got pregnant when her husband came home on leave. Is it really that difficult to understand?
Are we even sure that the boy waving is related to the pregnant woman? For all we know, HIS mother might be just off shot to the right and the pregnant lady may be waiting for some other soldier who hasn’t been in Iraq for so long.
What I like on this site is, that the comments start to get much funnier than the pic/vid after some hours. Especially if some people try to argument in some real serious way (Like that sergeant- or other military-rank-guys trying to explain some R&B-Vacation … [sorry R&R .. what does it mean again? Roll on&Roll of?] … as a reason for pregnancy.
THIS is real fail. Please, if you get the joke and are not able to feel laugh or even to grin, just leave this site! If you don’t get the joke .. also leave! Just a hint ..
P.S.: To all the soldiers out there in any war wherever. Good luck and a early return home to your family. No matter for which president or whatelse you are forced to fight .. be safe.
Respectful regards
“Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.”
maybe it’s because they have to go sacrifice their lives over in iraq or sacrifice having a husband and father (or wife and mother) for people who hide behind their keyboards being snide.
i mean seriously, even beyond this website you gotta acknowledge that this country is being filled with more dumbasses every second. for ages people in the military have been risking their lives to protect a country filled with people who don’t give a rats ass and even go so far as to use that freedom that the soldiers fight for to diss the soldiers in every way.
without those soldiers there would be no freedom to have sites like this and call random people names.
i don’t think these people mean to be aggressive. they’re just in really stressful situations and when people are stressed then tend to become defensive. give em’ a break. military life isn’t the easiest thing to be apart of.
on the flip side. i think the arm belongs to the pregnant woman.
and whatever site posted that failed. i’m sure there were a hundred other kids just as excited who they could have shown a picture of. but ya know, thinking that hard isnt one of the media’s talents. a talent the media does have, making itself look more stupid everyday.
good thing though. it’d suck if we didn’t have anything to laugh about.
It’s actually a really sweet story. She is 5 months pregnant (yes, conceived during his mid-term leave) and she brought the ultrasound to greet her husband so that they can find out the gender of their second kid together (a boy). Kendra and Joshua Kaplan are their names.
I know this is probably going to ruin the fun but has it accord to anyone that the child and the pregnant woman are not even related and that they are welcoming home two different soldiers.
My husband is in the Army.. And when they have 12+ months of deployment, soldiers get 2 weeks of R&R… which means they have 2 weeks to come home and knock anyone they want to up.. In this case, his wife. My husband was actually deployed last year and a guy in his platoon came home on R&R and got his wife pregnant. She was actually about that far along when our husbands came home… Sorry to bust your FAIL bubble.. But You fail for saying this picture fails…
Well, I was in the Army too, and I had a guy working for me who had three (count ‘em) different Jodies knock up his wife during various field problems and real-world deployments. And he was still married to her. Talk about FAIL.
THANK YOU!!! it pisses me the hell off when people automatically assume that all military wives cheat! i know plenty of women who have had R&R babies. NOTHING about this “fail” is funny. nothing about calling a very obviously proud military spouse a whore is funny. this is one of the sweetest photos ive seen and when i saw the original it brought me to tears. none of you can even begin to imagine the heartache of kissing your husband farewell, knowing you wont see him for months on end, knowing that there is a possibility you may not see him again at all. you cant even begin to imagine the hardships that come with this life, the sacrifices that most military wives are PROUD to make, because we know our husbands are fighting for something greater. namely your freedom of speech – to insinuate that military wives are cheating whores. i hope you appreciate your freedom to insult good people; men and women have died for your right to do so.
Could it be possible that as a tattoo artist, you’re seeing only the skankiest of the military wives? I’m not knocking tattoos, I have a big one, but chances are the ones who just wander in for a tramp stamp are the ones doing a majority of the cheating. Especially if they talk about their kids the whole time (where the heck are they when they’re getting inked?).
This is sooo offensive, given R & R! I know several couples who hoped strongly that R&R would coincide with the “best” days, cause they were hoping for a child.
Thought it would be obvious, but the caption only says it’s the BOY’S father who was on a 12 month tour, it definately dosen’t say that “el prego” is the dude’s wife/girlfriend.
in her defense, it is possible that she did not cheat. most deployments have a two week break (r&r) around the 6 month mark in which the soldier goes home. i have a buddy that got his wife pregnant during the r&r.
its not always around the 6-month mark. keep in mind, they try to make sure every soldier gets to go home for r&r…you cant just have a whole platoon up and leave all at once. ive had friends whose husbands have come home for r&r after 2 months downrange, and others whose husbands didnt get r&r until 9 months into the deployment. as well as those who have been lucky enough to have r&r at 6 months. so as pregnant as she is, maybe they DID have an early r&r.
I appreciate the attempt at humor here, and it’s obvious it is the boy’s mother.
Failblog, it’s really not funny. L2respect the men and women in the service. I hate the fact that I see so many knocks on our soldiers/wives/husbands. This woman kept the home fires burning, waiting to find out the sex of the baby until her husband could open the envelope with her, and obviously took care of herself and her child very well during they time he was away.
As a military wife I see children that aren’t taken care of, taken away from their homes because momma just don’t care because her hubby isn’t home. People like to focus on the negative.
Look at the positive. This is a WIN, that is what this should have been posted as. For the women/men that do care enough to keep their legs closed, to take care of themselves and their children, while their husband/wife are out getting shot at, avoiding IED’s, fighting depression, and keeping it together, THANK YOU!!
nobody is saying shes been pregnant for 12 months. they said his tour was 12 months long. which is pretty standard. you dont say “oh my husband just got home from a 6-month tour followed by 2 weeks r&r followed by another 6-month tour.” NO. you say a 12-month tour, and it is implied (for anyone who actually knows how the military works) that r&r was taken at some point in those 12 months. not necessarily at the 6-month mark either; she seems pretty far along so they probably had an earlier r&r. or shes just showing early.
How is this a fail? You think military men on several month tours NEVER get a break to come home to visit family? The ages of the kids have NOTHING to do with the length of time served…not to be overly-analytical but it appears to me the FAIL is on the part of the person who captioned it as a FAIL.
It’s failblog’s fail…being too ignorant to grasp soldiers get leave and often knock up their wives during said leave (shocking that people would screw like rabbits after months apart, I know).
after six months of a twelve month tour, soldiers get a two week r&r break… so the picture would make sense to somebody who knows how the military works. nice try, though.
The fail is the poster’s. Even with a year TDY/duty tour whatever you want to call it. SOLDIERS GET LEAVE. If only enought to visit once. Air Force Brat Born and bred, I can remember dad coming home during a year long tour to Korea. This is an absolute win!
I was pregnant during two of my husband’s deployments. He made it home for one birth but missed out on the other. Meeting your child–even your unborn child–for the first time at a homecoming ceremony is an emotional event. Wondering if your child will ever have the opportunity to meet their father is excruciating.
This picture captures a joy that many people never experience. It causes my heart to catch in my throat and I am overcome (again) with gratitude that my soldier came home. I know many who didn’t. I know children who didn’t get to have the joy this kid has, I know babies who never met their fathers.
Please remove this post out of respect for this family and their sacrifices, so that their joy is not diminished for your own misguided amusement.
I agree with Sis B. This is a terrible display of ignorance! I would even call it slander. I know of many wives who became pregnant during a mid-tour leave. Just because he served a 12 month tour doesn’t mean he didn’t come home in the middle of it. Please take it down!
it is a fail blog fail, yes. As one of the many women who spent almost my entire pregnancy with my husband deployed the ‘joke’ is lost on me. Plenty of pregnant women didn’t get to enjoy this scenario and instead waited for a casket to arrive. Poor taste and derserving of a retraction and statement of support for those serving our nation and protecting our freedoms.
And this?
stfu says:
January 6, 2010 at 12:51 am
The Fail here is continuing to have children when you aren’t even around to help raise the one you already have and might be killed in Iraq.
Why do people think having kids is some duty or right?
It’s not.
Wow. We need to raise as many proud and strong and respectful children as we can to ensure the next generations don’t keep sliding down into your abyss.
How disrespectful, offensive and revolting of anyone to question this family. My husband had mid tour leave on his two tours to Iraq. Those of you who have NO idea of what military families go through should be ashamed of yourselves. Your “cute” remarks, your knuckledragging blathering is an insult to all of us in the military family. How DARE you!
BTW it doesn’t say anywhere that this boy is her’s. It does kinda look like she’s holding his hand but then again she might not, or he got away from his mother/family unit and is rushing forward to see his dad and this lady held onto him so that his mother was able to get to him.
This post is disrepectful. The person that posted this is obviously ignorant and it pisses me off that this is even on fail blog. The sheer ignorance of the American public regading military issues is embarassing. Look it up, its called R & R (rest & relaxation) or mid-tour leave. All soldiers serving overseas for 12 months or more get it.
Really… this post needs to be removed. It is NOT a parenting fail. Rather an American public fail. Shame.
I’m in the military, active duty. I am NOT offended by this, I am amused. People need to get over themselves. I’ve seen many things on this site that people have laughed at that are obviously fake, or may have a perfectly good explanation. Military folk are getting all bent out of shape… does this hit home for you? I have nothing to fear, or hide, or worry about. So yes, I can laugh at it. I’ve known people to come home and find out they were being cheated on. It sucks. You aren’t going to stop people from doing crappy things to each other, so lighten up while you can. Learn to laugh a little sometimes, it makes life easier to deal with.
The boy is immaterial. It is the unborn child (I see from a previous reply that it was a boy) and the wording of the caption that is the crux of the jest.
Usually I love failblog, but I had to speak up on this one. If you are deployed for 12 months, you get 2 weeks of R&R half way through. Obviously, she’s about 6 months pregnant. It is highly likely that its her husband’s child.
I don’t care when she got pregnant or by whom or what. We shouldn’t have to look at it (okay, turning my eyes away) but if you were there in person it would be hard not to. Trash win–looks like something you’d throw out with the trash.
The Fail here is continuing to have children when you aren’t even around to help raise the one you already have and might be killed in Iraq.
Why do people think having kids is some duty or right?
It’s not.
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Wow, you people (the one’s posting dumbass comments assuming she cheated and the dumbass who uploaded this picture) are morons. And her belly is freakin’ adorable!
Shame on you!!! Really? Are you that clueless to degrade our military families??? You clearly have no idea what our military families have endured the past 8 years to support the war on terror. YOu should be ashamed of yourself and I respectfually request you take this down out of respect for our military families.
I have to admit, I laughed when I saw the caption, but in all reality, THE BABY WAS PROBABLY CONCEIVED DURING R&R. Deployed military people DO get to come home for leave approximately half way through their tour. APPROXIMATELY. Depends on his rank, and how many other people are in his unit. My sister’s husband was a Sargeant on his last tour, and had to wait until his entire unit RETURNED TO IRAQ before he could get R&R – so he didn’t get to leave until about 8 months into his tour. Some guys leave as early as 4 months in. I can’t believe so many people keep posting comments without reading ANY of the other comments. Like I said, I got the joke, I laughed, but more than likely the baby was conceived during R&R – whether the woman and the little boy are related is irrelevant, almost ALL army tours are 12-18 months now, so even if those 2 people were unrelated, the baby was still probably conceived on vacation.
i am active army and i work where everyone deployed in iraq, afghanistan and kuwait (and others) have to go before taking leave. it is rare to not get at least 2 weeks of leave during an 8-18 month deployment. there is an R&R policy. it is a privilidge, not a right which is why some people may know people who might not have had leave.
My fiance is in the Army and currently serving a 12 month tour in Afghanistan. Not everyone get’s their leave exactly six months through, there are many variables in when everyone takes leave. My fiance took his about 2 months into the tour, so it is possible that the preggo gal here got to see her hubby/boyfriend soon into his tour. Soooooo Failblog please get your facts straight before you post!
R&R baby. Happens a lot! Failblog should really get their facts straight. This makes the lady look bad when she was just welcoming home her husband. Some people don’t understand what home comings are like.
It’s called R&R people. Every year-long tour of duty comes with 12-15 days leave to see your family.
The guy is lucky she got preggers on RnR since he’ll actually get to witness the birth instead of her getting preggers before he left the first time.
oi.
Get your facts straight before you start calling military wives sluts.
You’re an Idiot. If you knew anything about anything dealing with the military then you’d know that Soldiers get to come home during their tour for a period of 15 days during a 12 month tour. Idiots like you just cause problems…
I think the #epicfail here is this blog post. They did not take into consideration that there may be R & R (leave) during a deployment! There is also a nice story that goes along with this picture! #failblogfail
Kendra Kaplan, 5 months pregnant, watches as her husband SSG Joshua Kaplan and fellow U.S. Army soldiers arrive on August 18, 2009 in Fort Carson, Colorado. She had brought a sealed envelope with an ultrasound, so that they could learn the baby’s gender together upon Joshua’s arrival. The Kaplans will be having a baby boy, conceived during Joshua’s mid-term leave in March. Approximately 575 soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat team from the 4th Infantry Division returned Tuesday following a 12 month deployment to Iraq. At lower left is their son Ayden, 3.
Anyone realize that deployed service members get what’s called R&R… which is a chance to go home mid-tour to see family? A service member can go home as early as 3 months into a deployment.
It’s called R&R (rest and relaxation) troops get it normally half way through their tour. Sometimes earlier, sometimes later and lasts for 2 weeks. This is not a fail, good for them, this is a win.
Soldiers get two weeks of leave (vacation) at some point during a twelve month deployment. Plenty of wives get pregnant during those two weeks and give birth soon after the end of the deployment.
Reminds me of an article about bastards in Judaism. Being a Jewish bastard makes one’s life very hard on top of the reputation.
So in a documented case from a few centuries ago, regarding a baby who was born while his father was absent for a whole year on a ship.
Well, the baby was evidently a bastard, except the mother took said her husband came to her in a dream, knew her in he biblical sense, and got her pregnant.
The Rabbis accepted her explanation, and the baby was not declared a bastard.
The text did not say what was the husband’s response once he returned home …
Or the girl could be the boys sister. Then “DADDY” would really be her dad…
A difference of about 15 years between children is not that hard to happen. And if he was “DADDY” the first time at 20, he would be 35 by now, not too old to be in Iraq.
This being posted is fail. It’s very common for soldiers to be able to visit their families. If there was an emergency (e.g., death in the family), he’d be even more likely to get to come home early.
Every 12 month or longer tour in Iraq has a 2 week “mid-tour” break sometime during those 12 months. The only thing about this that is a fail is that whoever submitted it isn’t intelligent enough to understand the situation. Oh, the webmasters at failblog apparently are not bright enough to figure this out either.
It’s an R and R baby. When you do a tour of duty you get a 2 week break about the middle of the tour. This is not a fail… A lot of soldiers try for R&R babies because they don’t want to try before they leave because the baby will be born before they get back.
Actually this whole thing is a fail becaues it’s completely plausable that she’s pregnant by him. You don’t get sent on a 12 month tour without a break; you go for 6 months, come back for a few weeks, and then get sent again. Learn the Military regulations before you comment.
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Do you NOT get what’s funny about this?
Her husband has been gone for 12 months, and she’s pregnant.
Babies are born after 9 months.
So she’s pregnant with someone who isn’t him.
Thank you for explaining the point again, but I wasn’t talking about the joke, my dear.
My post is concerning to that comments like
“shame on you making not-funny jokes about our brave soliders we are so proud of getting themself killed in some stupid war and it is an R&R-Baby made during some mid-tour-leave”
not just army wives, marine corps and navy wives too. there is such a thing as R&R leave and i got pregnant in the 2 weeks he was home. good news is he was home 2 days before our daughter was home!
Prolly already been said but soldiers are allowed to come home usually during the middle of their tour in Iraq for a few weeks, so… its probably his if she’s not hiding the fact she’s preggers.
Husband came home in March on R&R or LEAVE…. WE had SEX…LOTS AND LOTS OF SEX…. I got pregnant.. Husband came home in August. I was 5 months pregnant. BTW its a BOY.. ps. the little boy is ours.. NOT someone else’s. Any questions???
Kendra Kaplan, 5 months pregnant, watches as her husband SSG Joshua Kaplan and fellow U.S. Army soldiers arrive on August 18, 2009 in Fort Carson, Colorado. She had brought a sealed envelope with an ultrasound, so that they could learn the baby’s gender together upon Joshua’s arrival. The Kaplans will be having a baby boy, concieved during Joshua’s mid-term leave in March. Approximately 575 soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat team from the 4th Infantry Division returned Tuesday following a 12 month deployment to Iraq. At lower left is their son Ayden, 3.
As an Army wife for 12 years I can see both sides of this. (BTW, ever heard of R&R? Just Kidding – I couldn’t resist)
Seriously, it was confirmed to be an R&R baby and if it wasn’t it’s pretty safe to assume it was because most of the wives I’ve known are faithful despite the hardships military life can give.
That being said, the caption was funny because the news source inadvertently implied that although her husband’s unit had been gone for 12 months, she was pregnant. Most civilians are unaware of R&R so I could see how this is funny.
Again, it was confirmed it was an R&R baby BUT infidelity DOES happen. My husband has been deployed 3 times since we’ve been married (including right now). I’ve seen the ugly side with the cheating spouses. It’s frustrating to witness but it happens. One wife told her husband about her numerous affairs WHILE HE WAS DEPLOYED and he mentally shut down. They had to send him home early to get some professional help and she had the nerve a month later to show up when the rest of the unit came home! She was chased out of the gym (where the soldiers were going to arrive) by a mob of angry wifes who felt that the arrival ceremony was only for those who actually supported their soldiers!
My point? Lighten up! It was funny. It’s not implying that ALL Army wives (and husbands!) cheat or are white trash. However they do exist. Although it was confirmed that THIS particular wife got pregnant on R&R, it was a fail on the news source’s part that the implication that something odd had happened.
This is funny, but being an Army Wife, I’d like to point out that MOST babies are CONCEIVED on R&R leave….that means the 6 month point of a 12 month tour when the soldier gets to come home for a few weeks to see his family before going back to war for another 6 months…and this woman looks about 6 months along…. Just a helpful note
So it says a 12 month tour in Iraq but what it doesn’t say is when he came home for R&R… any tours longer than 8 months require R&R leave… she probably got pregnant then.
I’m not sure who is more ignorant deserves the fail here. The person who posted the pic, the person who allowed it in the front line up, or the people who gave it a high rating…
more and more of these unfunny non-fails are going up here. it just makes the site frustrating instead of entertaining. if you run a site making fun of folks failing, it’s less funny when you fail so much yourself. failblog is slowly going to shit.
and what’s with the text added in to the videos at the end? If it’s funny, let it speak for itself. you are adding nothing to the humor.
Usually on a 12-month tour, at the six month point you get to go home for about two weeks of R&R. She looks about six months pregnant. Or she could be like any other military wife and was shagging his superiors stateside.
We don’t even know if that’s his wife, it could be his daughter or someone. It’s just stupid to assume things that people have no proof of like she’s been cheating. and even if it is his wife she could have been there with him and conceived a child.
During a twelve month deployment military members are given 2 weeks for rest and relaxation when they can return home at about the halfway point. It is totally plausible that his wife is not a whore and is having his baby.
I saw this in person. This mom was at the homecoming back in August at the post we are stationed at. My husband came home same day, same group of soldiers. I saw her and the kid there and was a little surprised that she stood in a gym of 600 people with her belly showing, but at least she was in shape!! and the news crews loved it!!! And yes, I’m sure that she got pregnant when her hubby was home on R&R.
Look, this article is very fitting on failblog and I can see how it could be construed as being humorous to some. That being said, after serving as a Platoon Leader in Iraq, I don’t find this funny at all. I may be biased about this. There IS optional two week leave for soldiers serving a period of more than 6 months in Iraq and we had many soldiers come back as fathers-to-be. Although some units don’t get the optional two week leave most due and this is the most plausible reason for her pregnancy. I don’t find this funny because spousal infidelity is a very real problem for soldiers serving overseas. Many of my soldiers were destroyed emotionally and wrecked financially as their spouse, sometimes openly, ran around with another man. Soldier had little or no recourse. Even in the best marriages, every soldier wonders about his wife’s fidelity but accepts there is little he can do if she is unfaithful. So, I would like to assume that this is a happy reunion with no scandals involved. Infidelity may be humorous to some of you but it is tragic to those involved.
wow.. .looks like a battle buddies wife.. then again, we do get 15 DAYS HOME LEAVE WHEN WE GO TO IRAQ DUMBSHITS…. and funny part is.. most units only get SIX MONTHS IN IRAQ……
I think this is flippin hilarious, but I’m not gonna pass judgement simply because I am a military wife and I live right off an Army base, so I know from personal knowledge that most soldiers get 2 weeks R&R anywhere between 3-9 months after they deploy. I actually know a lady who got pregnant with her 2nd set of triplets (>.< Holy cow, six kids in less than five years!) while her husband was on R&R and she was about 7 1/2 months along when he came home again. Just sayin, don't be too judgemental.
okay so im glad yall are trying to make military wives look like total sluts, for one i am a military wife so i know what im talking about and for two, when they do long tours like that they get r&r when they get to come home like half way, so she could very easly be 6 months pregnant so you need to think about this stuff before you try making us look bad. thanks
1. There’s nothing that shows she is that child’s mother. That woman’s husband could have been gone for less than 9 months.
2. Maybe they tried unsuccessfully to have a child before he left, so maybe she got in-vitro while he was gone. And that would be the ultimate welcome home present.
Kendra Kaplan, 5 months pregnant, watches as her husband Staff Sgt. Joshua Kaplan and fellow U.S. Army soldiers arrive on August 18, 2009 in Fort Carson, Colorado. She had brought a sealed envelope with an ultrasound, so that they could learn the baby’s gender together upon Joshua’s arrival. The Kaplans will be having a baby boy, concieved during Joshua’s mid-term leave in March. Approximately 575 soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat team from the 4th Infantry Division returned Tuesday following a 12 month deployment to Iraq. At lower left is their son Ayden, 3.
Thank you for posting this. I swear, some of those comments make me wonder about the underuse of psych meds in this country. What a bunch of retarded comments!
My husband’s nephew is an Army soldier in Afghanistan who came home for R&R last summer, and my in-laws got the call about a month after he went back to “Hell” that his wife was prego.
Good Lord, so many morons out there! It is obvious her husband came back for a break during his tour!! Almost ALL soldiers get that privilege, regardless of the branch of the military they serve in. My boyfriend came home from Iraq for a 2-week break halfway through his tour. Does anyone out there REALLY think she’d be displaying her belly like this otherwise?!?! There’s some serious inbreeding going on with some of you people. I can only hope you’re just joking….
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1st borne win
No, 2nd borne win. Because the father might be Tiger Wood. Money, money & money
WoodSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
She shure has got some wood.
Maybe she was there with him – it was a 12 month tour of Iraq, nothing to do with the military. He was just seeing the sights.
Or maybe she’s just really fat.
Or he sent her a sample in a tube. Cuz she sure has hades wasn’t allowed to go there.
He probably had some R&R stateside… not that unusual.
this is what i figure. my uncle was in Afghanistan for a year and he was able to come home for thanksgiving for a few days about 6 months into his tour. i doubt that she would be proudly displaying her pregnancy if he wasnt the father.
Haven’t you learned anything from this site? People are stupid. There are plenty of people who can’t do the math about things like this.
Now, MAYBE he was lucky enough to get a few days home. MAYBE she and he had embryos frozen and she thawed one out 7 or 8 months before he was due back. But it still lokks awfully suspicious.
okay, so are those the only options we are looking at? this is a fail fail. the most probable option is that that little boy is not hers – it only say that that boys father was there for 12months. we have no idea how long the pregnant girls babydaddy was gone for, it could have been less, like 6 months.
Or it was a typo on the part of the news organisation. I’m surprised no one has entertained that idea. In spite of all the sane responses that the guy probably had leave, from service members no less, there are a lot of commenters who just want to believe the worst about any woman. =/
Not that women can’t be stupid or duplicitous, but that’s an awful lot of paint for a woman who knows her husband isn’t the father. The last time I checked, abortion was legal.
I’m in the Army, the father probably got a couple of weeks for R&R
Had the embryos FROZEN? Have we really advanced so far in science and medicine that we can freeze live-unborn humans and then thaw them out without killing them?
Damn how did I miss THAT?
Anyway, sometimes people in the military/navy/etc are allowed to return home once or twice a year while serving so its not impossible for the child to be his if he was say… visiting on Christmas and returning in June.
Also, is it not possible this particular soldier joined the war after it had already begun? He could have served up to 9 months that way.
Actually, we have advanced that far. Embryos are frozen when they are only a few cells, around 8, and can be unfrozen and implanted in the mother safely.
Not only is R&R not “unusual”, any soldier serving a 12 month tour gets one. Women get knocked up on R&R all the time.
A tour is a military term for time spent in active duty at a specific destination for a specific time period. FAIL!!!!
Having served “active duty” for roughly a decade, I can tell you there is such a thing as leave. It’s crazy, you get to go someplace else other than the suck for that period of time. It’s been around for awhile too. Crazy business that leave stuff.
I’ve been on active duty for fifteen years. I’ve been to Iraq three times and I never got leave from Iraq.
Bob, you were getting screwed by Uncle Sam, or your captain really had it out for you. My ex husband did one tour in Iraq for 12 months and got 2 weeks of leave after being there for 4.
Not saying this woman didn’t cheat, but soldiers do get leave… usually.
My dad served three tours in Iraq from 6-8 months and didn’t get a mid-term, but my brother is in Korea for a year and he’s coming home for mid-term in a few months.
So this is probably just a mid-term, near-end-of-term, baby lol
if your tour is less than a year, you dont get leave. if it is a year you get fifteen days. if it is 15 months, then you get eighteen days of leave. annoying when people that dont know what they are talking about assume the worst
Then you aren’t really in the military, or you would know all about mid-tour leave.
Or he is in the Air Force, where they only go for about 4 months at a time anyway, making leave impractical.
Yeah, 12 month tours got 18 days of mid tour Rest and Relaxation.
The only fail here is the lack of military knowledge of whoever posted this.
it’s still funny, even if he had leave. Over analyze every joke and pretty soon not much is funny
Ugh. Air Force people are obnoxious about their deployments. My boyfriend was sick of Airmen bragging about how they were in Iraq for “the big 120″ (meaning 120 days)…especially when he was 10 months into a 15 month deployment.
Ummm, rather than being jealous of the Air Force, how about joining it? I was in the Air Force and had Army guys coming up to me all the time telling me how lucky I was and trying to make me feel guilty. My answer to them, at the recruiters office there were multiple doors with multiple military branches; no one told you to take the Army door but yourself.
Yeah bob. I was there twice and recieved R&R both times.
youre an idiot. ive been to afghanistan and iraq. got mid tour both times. but.. i guess that only happens when youre there for longer than 4-6 months. 12-15 mo = mid-tour leave. you fail
I know for a fact the two of the three times i have been to Iraq it was pretty much mandatory for every one in theater to take R&R Leave. You probably didn’t take leave on your own accord, and or you were in Iraq for less than a year a each time you were deployed in which case you would not be granted leave. And are you really on active duty? What unit are you with?
Its called R&R and she looks about right for getting knocked up on R&R. Im an army wife and they do get to come home for about 2 weeks.
Yea, you definitely got screwed If you served a 12 month tour and you never got leave. I have never known anyone who DIDN’T get leave. Including my husband.
I disagree, I have 18 days of leave from Iraq when I was over there.
exactly what i was going to say, individuals who do a 12+ tour of duty get a 2 week leave time alotted to them called R&R where they get to fly home to see their family.
Military members almost always get an R&R time while deployed. If he was deployed for 12 months he’ll get 2 weeks R&R. That’s plenty of time to make a baby! So not suspicious at all.
Most soldiers get a 2 week leave during a 12 month deployment. Some fly home for those 2 weeks, so chill, this is an epic success.
Is “she” has wood, then “she” just made medical history.
no, hermaphrodites have existed for centuries. you know, a woman who also has male sex parts, or a man who also has the female reproductive system?
Human hemaphrodites are born sterile
not all of ‘em
or… this is a fail fail. the most probable option is that that little boy is not hers – it only say that that boys father was there for 12months. we have no idea how long the pregnant girls babydaddy was gone for, it could have been less, like 6 months (or as people below pointed out – on leave)
I remember seeing the original of this and according to the article, she did get pregnant during his 2-week mid-tour leave and the envelope she was holding was the ultrasound photo that she hadn’t looked at yet.
BTW, it’s a boy.
Yup! Many babies are conceived on that R&R and its sad how many ignorant people automatically assume there was no way that could be his child just because he was gone for the rest of the time.
I agree Mae. Its ignorant and mean to assume its not his baby. I am an Army wife and most people have r & r babies. With so many back to back deployments, so many couples are seperated during the pregnancy.
Not to be rude but, mid way through a 12 month tour is 6 months, she looks like she is 8-9 months at least, just makes one go hmmmmmmmm….
she looks 6 months max, especially for a second child since you usually carry bigger for the second one. 8-9 months is much bigger unless you are an anorexic movie star (and r and r doesn’t always happen at exactly 6 months, depending on if they can get away from where they are working or not.)
You’re absolutely right. My husband came home after just 4 months for his R&R because that is when they would have a replacement for him. No other time would work. During a different deployment, he left a short time after we found out we were expecting and came home in time for the birth.
This photo is not a FAIL, the person who posted it is.
My hubby got his “mid”tour leave from Iraq at barely 3 months so he could be there when our daughter was born.
Everyone carries differently. When I was almost at term I had lots of people asking me if I was 7 months along. I currently have a friend who is pregnant with her first, and she’s enormous. She’s been bigger than another mutual friend for the last few months, and our other friend was due a month earlier. My huge pregnant friend has looked about 9 months pregnant for the last two months.
R&R(not MID TOUR leave) is whenever the army can schedule it for you.
I got to pick the date of my leave..its depends on your unit..I think…Some guys went on leave in December..after just getting there in late October..I waited till July when I knew it was gonna be the hottest…Also if you have deaths in your family you get emergency leave…So its really not that surprising…
It not always at 6 months. Not the best idea so send an entire unit, who deploy at the same time, on leave at the same time. They are staggered usually starting about about 3 months in to about 10 monhs in. That way there is never an apreciable percentage of a unit not available for duty.
just because it is called midtour r&r doesnt mean it is in the exact middle of the tour. use some common sense. a unit will deploy together and they cant take leave together at the same time so they let a certain number of guys go at a time that is spread out throughout the tour. your all a bunch of retards
umm no she doesnt look that big its just cuz the way the picture is taken.. and yah babys do come in different sizes whos to say it wasnt a big baby?
Ask any nurse who’s worked on a military post or in a hospital. They can always tell 9 months when the troops came home….
i thought the arrow was pointng at te kids hand and i was sittin and starin at the picyute for like 10 minutes just think ans sayin “i dont get it”
HAHAHA SAME HERE.
Im not sure if civillian public is aware of procedures in the US Army but being from the military myself im familiar with how it works. They do give us 2 weeks of leave, sometimes you get screwed and get it in the first 2 months of the tour or maybe in the last 2 months… either way if he came home for leave got her pregnant then returned to Iraq this is entirely plausible. I want every idiot here who gives army kids flak for being to stupid to go to college to give yourself a fail for not being able to do math.
Thank you!
Every one I know that has been to Iraq, and that’s quite a bit of people since I work at Walter Reed, gets roughtly 2 weeks of leave sometime during their tour.
Um, Duh. Its and R and R baby. Thats the 3 weeks sometime during thier tour that they get to come home. I got prego with our 2nd during my husband’s r and r and was 6 moonths prego when he got home. Damn, some of you guys are so retarded.
Ummm see what had happened was….
immaculate conception.
Alien abduction
the miracle of the intertubes.
But she said she had her intertubes tied!
She got pregnant while he was home on leave (most 12 month deployments are given a 2 week R&R sometime halfway through)
so the poster of this is ignorant and this is NOT a fail.
I’m so glad someone said this, I was going to have to if no one mentioned it.
So OP fail.
thank you!!!! this pic being here kinda angers me…. but never underestimate the power of ignorance
Haha, i giggled.
It’s not like he was in Iraq the whole time. People get leaves.
Meh! I think she was branching out with another bloke.
True.
You’re really not seeing the root of the problem here, are you?
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I don’t think I’m barking up the wrong tree.
Instead of the tree, I see Rock Hudson, and instead of the dog I see Doris Day.
Where the hell you see a dog????
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Is that your idea of Pillow Talk?
Aja would understand.
Splunge!
and doris day says something funny … LIKE … ?
kay, sara, sara, whoever will ski, will ski, the belly’s not ours to sea, kay, sara, sara.
and then Doris Dog goes up to Rock Tree and she…kisses on him!
… and why is any of this shit funny?
I love this site, and hate the comment sections. The meme’s are retarded.
My ex didn’t get leave.
you can choose not to take it. i almost didnt this time around.
your ex DID get leave, he just didn’t tell you and spend it with his misstress.
im with stupid
I am pretty sure if the guys and gals are gone for at least 12 months, they get to come home for 1 or 2 weeks for R&R. Not all of them do, I bet. But I’m gonna have to give this one the benefit of the doubt. The media could have picked a better caption, though!
That’s not really a fail, she probably got pregnant on his mid-tour leave. Tons of people in the military conceive on R&R and it has nothing to do with cheating on one’s deployed spouse.
Does “R&R” mean Rocking & Rearing?
ricking and rolling.
Rest & Relaxation
Hiding something here? Come on, spill! We won’t tell…
I was going to say this as well. I was in the Army for 8 years. I got two week’s R&R while on my last 12 month deployment. Everyone else did too. Plenty of time to conceive. The R&R is staggered for the unit, so some people may get their leave as early as 3 months in while others may get it as late as 2 months from going home for good.
You got Rabies & Retinoschisis for two weeks in your last deployment? Man, I hope you are fully recovered.
That was stupid.
R&R = Rest and Relaxation
Thank you, Armywife. As military spouses, I guess we have to remember that most people aren’t used to acronyms we hear on an almost daily basis!!
somebody got some splainin to do
…to her spelling teacher.
Well, I can at least see where it’s harder to spellcheck when writing upside down on your own stomach.
I was not talking about the pregnant woman.
oops.
should i had put ricky ricardo voice? smh
where is the spelling error? if your referring to the M in welcome it clearly dips in the middle and goes back up to meet the second leg
he’s talking about my ricky ricardo impersonation which he clearly missed
Probably the cultural differences (no Ricky Ricardo or Lucy in my country) helped me missing that.
No Santa either, right?
You didn’t get any presents? He didn’t sleep through the whole thing, did he?
blame it on Rudolph the gasser. …
culture fail
Then how did you know about Lucy?
…Its called visits, moron xD
In fact it is called pregnant belly with words painted on it in cheerful colours.
What an bad idea than to write that
Maybe the baby though about waiting 4 months more for the daddy…ok maybe not :-S
Good idea to write that, bad idea to be photographed.
Assuming it was a case of shore leave, the dad would probably be overjoyed and very touched. We’re just spoiling a beautiful moment with dirty innuendo.
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Maybe her husband can’t conceive and she became pregnant per IVF, with his blessing.
Maybe she is not pregnant but ate one too many pizzas.
Or too much flax.
Oh i get it, pregnancy took 12 months right…?Overpregnant.
Or maybe he just doesn’t sleep with his daughter? (See? You-all just assume that….)
LOL – didn’t think about that.
You`re the man.
very good
but you cant blame us, a grown woman seldom calls her father “daddy”
and has a child on the way while her little brother is 4 years old.
Maybe she got pregnant at the age of 16?
There’s no way to see how old she is, just in fact of her legs.
exactly, so thats still a parenting fail
1 – 0 for you. Gimme a second chance to fix that.
Okey it was….Uhmmm….Hmmmm… x_X
I’ll give it up.
I call mine Dadoo.
Nice one!
IVF Win!
We allready had that one.
Or maybe the boy’s mom is the woman in the pink pants.
that’s what I want to say. It’s never said that the person with the writing on the belly is the child’s mother. For all we know, that could be his aunt, who happens to be pregnant and waiting for her husband who is in the same troop to come home.
thirded! the photo alone doesn’t mean this is the child’s mom (or the 12-month tourer’s wife).
I was thinking the same thing.
Outstanding, whoever pointed that out has a sharp eye. Great job
Um this is not a fail, its called R&R leave, I got it while I was in Iraq, so you can’t really call this a fail.
Did you got Rheumatism & Rhinovirus while you were in Iraq?
I feel sorry for you.
If you got it while in Iraq, that still doesn’t explain where SHE got it.
WOW THIS IS TOTALLY FAIL BECAUSE HE COULD POSSIBLY BE THE FATHER SINCE SOLDIERS STATIONED IN IRAQ OBVIOUSLY NEVER GET A CHANCE TO COME BACK HOME AT ANY POINT DURING THEIR TOUR…. oh wait…
ITS ALSO HIGHLY UNLIKELY THAT A HUSBAND AND WIFE WHO’VE BEEN APART FOR MANY MONTHS WOULD HAVE SEX WITH EACH OTHER WHEN REUNITING… oh wait…
I don’t know what are you talking (shouting?) about. The fail is that she spelled “dandy” wrong.
daddy sent her a presie all the way from Iraq, the flies did the rest
The fail here is from the person who submitted the picture. The guys that get deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan get a two week leave period where they come home.
No, really? I wish someone had told us before.
Nobody told that before because it is one of those military secrets. We shall pretend we do not know.
LOL! that made my hole weak
Yeah, prunes will do that to you.
We don’t know who the little boy’s mother is. Therefore, the pregnant woman’s husband (or boyfriend) could have been stationed for less than 12 months.
The americans are said to have a gestation time of more than 12 months. Hence this is an empirical proof, not a fail.
too much refined food can really block you up
thank god it says paternity fail instead of those goddam joke titles like “papas not gonna be happy” or some sh.it
awe! she was holding it in this whole time how sweet
camel’s gestation period is much longer
Is there a relation to the pregnant camels in .. iraq?
*wonderin’*
thank you civilian for keeping the home fires burning
Sir, I’m trying to do my very best, sir! You wish to receive a detailed situation report, sir?
Yes, we need more Friendly Fire.
Fail.
LOL!
*squeeze!*
Reporter fail much?
No.
Did you?
This one is really dumb, the soldiers DO get to come home on leave. My SIL was over there for a year and was home half way through her tour for two weeks. Enough time to get pregnant!
Nowhere is it indicated that the pregnant woman is the boy’s mother. Someone was over-eager to deduce a fail here.
He looks way older than 12 months so it could be his.
HUGE FAIL!
It wasn’t her kid. A woman from behind, (who has a wedding ring on), is grabbing the boy, (who is holding a flag and wearing the nice sweater vest) by his collar since he was so excited to see his dad and is running toward him.
Parenting fail on the run away? Maybe. Kids love to see a parent who has been gone for awhile.
Paternity fail? No. the kid wasn’t hers AND no one knows HOW she ended up pregnant with the baby. I could have happened when he was on leave or she could have been pregnant when she met the guy.
But I just want to say, no matter where you live, whatever country, lets respect our service men and women. Flame me for that, I won’t care. I’ve had too many relatives who have been hurt by the fighting while in service.
If you’d have looked closer, you would have been able to tell that the pregnant woman’s arm wouldn’t match the woman in the pink pants.
Unless the pregnant one only had a right arm, and the lady in pink had two left ones… o_O;
Lighten up, sithra. This is a site for people who want to laugh, not be depressed.
He send the semen by e-mail.
Almost 100% sure that within that 12 month tour of service he was able to come home for a few weeks, the army does allow that during tours of service so, its not as funny when you think about it really =p
M President – supporting the troops abroad and their families at home.
failblog is hilarious but EVERYTHING about this post is an EPIC FAIL…as a Soldier I can tell you he got 2 weeks R&R leave during his 12 months and that’s when the baby was conceived which is APPARENT since she is advertising..otherwise she’d be home hiding…and everybody who commented otherwise is an EPIC INTELLIGENCE FAIL…losers
Tell em!
Also, did anyone consider that this could be an older daughter of the soldier coming home, carrying his grandchild? She wrote “daddy” on her belly – might not be speaking for the fetus she’s carrying, but might actually be referring to her own daddy coming home.
durring a 12 month deployment soldiers can take R&R anytime that are aloud to durring there 12+ tours. so the lady pregnat polly got so durring R&R.
Sgt. Rabun T.
OIF 3, 4, 5 and 6
I feel horrible for pointing this out but there is obviously a reason we’re losing this war.
Not her kid so no fail.
Isn’t it possible that the girl shown on the picture isn’t his wife but his daughter?
12-month tours have a mid-tour leave between the 5th and 7th months. You don’t stay in theater for the entire 12 months. Otherwise, everyone that deployed for a year might lose 30 days of leave.
Gwee
Are people actually this stupid, or are they just pretending to try and be funny? It’s not hard to understand that the lady got pregnant when her husband came home on leave. Is it really that difficult to understand?
Are we even sure that the boy waving is related to the pregnant woman? For all we know, HIS mother might be just off shot to the right and the pregnant lady may be waiting for some other soldier who hasn’t been in Iraq for so long.
This is actually an R&R win. Anyone who doesn’t get that is a moron.
Kay it says a young boy is happy to see his father, it doesn’t say anything about the women so how do you know the women is still with the dude!?
Let this be a lesson to all- do NOT leave your girlfriend alone for 12 months, as after at least 3 of those, she may get laid.
Fail blog fails again by not knowing how things work. 12 Month tours get 2 week R&R stints.
What I like on this site is, that the comments start to get much funnier than the pic/vid after some hours. Especially if some people try to argument in some real serious way (Like that sergeant- or other military-rank-guys trying to explain some R&B-Vacation … [sorry R&R .. what does it mean again? Roll on&Roll of?] … as a reason for pregnancy.
THIS is real fail. Please, if you get the joke and are not able to feel laugh or even to grin, just leave this site! If you don’t get the joke .. also leave! Just a hint ..
*enjoying the comments*
P.S.: To all the soldiers out there in any war wherever. Good luck and a early return home to your family. No matter for which president or whatelse you are forced to fight .. be safe.
Respectful regards
“Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.”
Carl Sandburg
PPS: the first PD wasn’t meant for ‘Sir Kiebitz’, but for anyone who read it (the PD) and was thinking of doing so.
He may have knocked her up on his mid-tour leave, thus he could still be the father.
Clearly whoever posted this has no idea what mid-tour leave is.
I just think her attempt to camoflage the bump with paint is rather inept.
It’s called Leave, dumbasses. Or R&R to you people who don’t understand deployments. They let soldiers come home for 15 days. Retards.
Why do you military-related people have such a latent aggression in your words … tss
*shaking the head uncomprehendingly*
Try to show souvereignity .. if possible.
Regards
maybe it’s because they have to go sacrifice their lives over in iraq or sacrifice having a husband and father (or wife and mother) for people who hide behind their keyboards being snide.
i mean seriously, even beyond this website you gotta acknowledge that this country is being filled with more dumbasses every second. for ages people in the military have been risking their lives to protect a country filled with people who don’t give a rats ass and even go so far as to use that freedom that the soldiers fight for to diss the soldiers in every way.
without those soldiers there would be no freedom to have sites like this and call random people names.
i don’t think these people mean to be aggressive. they’re just in really stressful situations and when people are stressed then tend to become defensive. give em’ a break. military life isn’t the easiest thing to be apart of.
on the flip side. i think the arm belongs to the pregnant woman.
and whatever site posted that failed. i’m sure there were a hundred other kids just as excited who they could have shown a picture of. but ya know, thinking that hard isnt one of the media’s talents. a talent the media does have, making itself look more stupid everyday.
good thing though. it’d suck if we didn’t have anything to laugh about.
sometimes they get to come home for a week or two during their leave.
It’s actually a really sweet story. She is 5 months pregnant (yes, conceived during his mid-term leave) and she brought the ultrasound to greet her husband so that they can find out the gender of their second kid together (a boy). Kendra and Joshua Kaplan are their names.
You guys are retarded! He wasn’t gone the entire 12 months. Like any job you get a break! They get a 2 week leave….Enough time to make the baby!
Soldiers get 2 weeks of R&R leave in the middle of their deployments.
I know this is probably going to ruin the fun but has it accord to anyone that the child and the pregnant woman are not even related and that they are welcoming home two different soldiers.
I had to look and think good before I got it, hahaha this is funny!
My husband is in the Army.. And when they have 12+ months of deployment, soldiers get 2 weeks of R&R… which means they have 2 weeks to come home and knock anyone they want to up.. In this case, his wife. My husband was actually deployed last year and a guy in his platoon came home on R&R and got his wife pregnant. She was actually about that far along when our husbands came home… Sorry to bust your FAIL bubble.. But You fail for saying this picture fails…
Well, I was in the Army too, and I had a guy working for me who had three (count ‘em) different Jodies knock up his wife during various field problems and real-world deployments. And he was still married to her. Talk about FAIL.
THANK YOU!!! it pisses me the hell off when people automatically assume that all military wives cheat! i know plenty of women who have had R&R babies. NOTHING about this “fail” is funny. nothing about calling a very obviously proud military spouse a whore is funny. this is one of the sweetest photos ive seen and when i saw the original it brought me to tears. none of you can even begin to imagine the heartache of kissing your husband farewell, knowing you wont see him for months on end, knowing that there is a possibility you may not see him again at all. you cant even begin to imagine the hardships that come with this life, the sacrifices that most military wives are PROUD to make, because we know our husbands are fighting for something greater. namely your freedom of speech – to insinuate that military wives are cheating whores. i hope you appreciate your freedom to insult good people; men and women have died for your right to do so.
cry me a river. it’s funny as fucck. get over it. it’s the internet.
well they do. i’m from fort campbell and a tattoo artist. you wouldn’t be able to complain when you’ve seen what i’ve seen… and done.
Could it be possible that as a tattoo artist, you’re seeing only the skankiest of the military wives? I’m not knocking tattoos, I have a big one, but chances are the ones who just wander in for a tramp stamp are the ones doing a majority of the cheating. Especially if they talk about their kids the whole time (where the heck are they when they’re getting inked?).
This is sooo offensive, given R & R! I know several couples who hoped strongly that R&R would coincide with the “best” days, cause they were hoping for a child.
A lot soldiers come home on furlough halfway through their tour for a couple weeks so this isn’t really a legitimate fail.
is that from The Globe And Mail?
R&R anyone? Thats easily, EASILY do-able and legit.
Morons.
It’s called R&R. Although you never know anymore
Wow she drunk too much beer while her father wasn’t home… no daddy, no discipline, from now on, no more beer!
Thought it would be obvious, but the caption only says it’s the BOY’S father who was on a 12 month tour, it definately dosen’t say that “el prego” is the dude’s wife/girlfriend.
Yeah. Ever hear of leave?
If not, refer to every other post. I’m sure it’ll sink in.
All together now…
ONLY IN AMERICA!
umm…it’s called leave
Umm…totally not a fail. They get to come home a couple of times. This is just low.
actually, they only get to come home once… but yeah, not a fail.
the “fails” on this site are becoming more confusing each day.
Military members get leave time on tour, he probably came home and knocked her up and went back.
There’s a thing soldiers take called “leave” where they can return home for a period of time *face palm*. haha
it’s still funny though!
in her defense, it is possible that she did not cheat. most deployments have a two week break (r&r) around the 6 month mark in which the soldier goes home. i have a buddy that got his wife pregnant during the r&r.
its not always around the 6-month mark. keep in mind, they try to make sure every soldier gets to go home for r&r…you cant just have a whole platoon up and leave all at once. ive had friends whose husbands have come home for r&r after 2 months downrange, and others whose husbands didnt get r&r until 9 months into the deployment. as well as those who have been lucky enough to have r&r at 6 months. so as pregnant as she is, maybe they DID have an early r&r.
I appreciate the attempt at humor here, and it’s obvious it is the boy’s mother.
Failblog, it’s really not funny. L2respect the men and women in the service. I hate the fact that I see so many knocks on our soldiers/wives/husbands. This woman kept the home fires burning, waiting to find out the sex of the baby until her husband could open the envelope with her, and obviously took care of herself and her child very well during they time he was away.
As a military wife I see children that aren’t taken care of, taken away from their homes because momma just don’t care because her hubby isn’t home. People like to focus on the negative.
Look at the positive. This is a WIN, that is what this should have been posted as. For the women/men that do care enough to keep their legs closed, to take care of themselves and their children, while their husband/wife are out getting shot at, avoiding IED’s, fighting depression, and keeping it together, THANK YOU!!
…….And, after all those, being pregnant for 12 months is normal?
You’re firing at the wrong point.
They at most FAIL Blog failed at noticing that soldiers did have a chance to go back home… which does not mean any disrespect.
nobody is saying shes been pregnant for 12 months. they said his tour was 12 months long. which is pretty standard. you dont say “oh my husband just got home from a 6-month tour followed by 2 weeks r&r followed by another 6-month tour.” NO. you say a 12-month tour, and it is implied (for anyone who actually knows how the military works) that r&r was taken at some point in those 12 months. not necessarily at the 6-month mark either; she seems pretty far along so they probably had an earlier r&r. or shes just showing early.
How is this a fail? You think military men on several month tours NEVER get a break to come home to visit family? The ages of the kids have NOTHING to do with the length of time served…not to be overly-analytical but it appears to me the FAIL is on the part of the person who captioned it as a FAIL.
R&R babies are such a pain in the ass….
Leave babies FTW…failblog, please think before you post next time.
what’s the fail? I don’t get it.
It’s failblog’s fail…being too ignorant to grasp soldiers get leave and often knock up their wives during said leave (shocking that people would screw like rabbits after months apart, I know).
after six months of a twelve month tour, soldiers get a two week r&r break… so the picture would make sense to somebody who knows how the military works. nice try, though.
The fail is the poster’s. Even with a year TDY/duty tour whatever you want to call it. SOLDIERS GET LEAVE. If only enought to visit once. Air Force Brat Born and bred, I can remember dad coming home during a year long tour to Korea. This is an absolute win!
It’s called Mid-Tour leave…. or R&R. This is stupid, and NOT a fail.
Zeus made that women pregnant. Rly.
it dont take long if you hurry
Not so funny. Definitely not a fail.
I was pregnant during two of my husband’s deployments. He made it home for one birth but missed out on the other. Meeting your child–even your unborn child–for the first time at a homecoming ceremony is an emotional event. Wondering if your child will ever have the opportunity to meet their father is excruciating.
This picture captures a joy that many people never experience. It causes my heart to catch in my throat and I am overcome (again) with gratitude that my soldier came home. I know many who didn’t. I know children who didn’t get to have the joy this kid has, I know babies who never met their fathers.
Please remove this post out of respect for this family and their sacrifices, so that their joy is not diminished for your own misguided amusement.
I agree with Sis B. This is a terrible display of ignorance! I would even call it slander. I know of many wives who became pregnant during a mid-tour leave. Just because he served a 12 month tour doesn’t mean he didn’t come home in the middle of it. Please take it down!
it is a fail blog fail, yes. As one of the many women who spent almost my entire pregnancy with my husband deployed the ‘joke’ is lost on me. Plenty of pregnant women didn’t get to enjoy this scenario and instead waited for a casket to arrive. Poor taste and derserving of a retraction and statement of support for those serving our nation and protecting our freedoms.
And this?
stfu says:
January 6, 2010 at 12:51 am
The Fail here is continuing to have children when you aren’t even around to help raise the one you already have and might be killed in Iraq.
Why do people think having kids is some duty or right?
It’s not.
Wow. We need to raise as many proud and strong and respectful children as we can to ensure the next generations don’t keep sliding down into your abyss.
I dont get it
How long does a pregnancy last?
How long was the guy away?
After you answer those questions, you should get it.
People on tour get leave. You SHOULD get it…
Damn. Here my New Years resolution was to cultivate a better sense Tao and let it be. Now you’ve blown it.
She stated what the Fail is, not whether daddy could have got leave or not.
coulda been his daughter that was pregnant too, its been a long freaking war
Soldiers get a two week leave. I’m assuming that’s when the baby was conceived.
It’s called R&R. This fail entry fails.
You know, soldiers get two weeks off in the middle of long deployments. That was his baby. Soldier procreation WIN.
I’m with Sis B here. I find this post extremely offensive, especially as the girlfriend of a deployed soldier.
Two weeks of leave during a year-long tour is more than enough time to conceive a child.
Please take this down, out of respect for our soldiers and their families.
LMAO!!! that is a funny pic, i`ll be back to checkout you blog daily
no one ever heard of leave? even tho he was on a 12 month tour to iraq they do get 15 days of leave…idiots
Maybe that wasn’t the boy’s mother, therefore, the pregnant woman and the boy’s father wouldn’t be related, therefore you all fail.
This is not a fail. Those serving overseas get a mid-tour break.
i thought it was good too… but then i read the rest of it… he had been home either 7 or 8 months prior on R&R
Mid-tour leave makes sense. I was thinking it was IVF.
Gross.
How disrespectful, offensive and revolting of anyone to question this family. My husband had mid tour leave on his two tours to Iraq. Those of you who have NO idea of what military families go through should be ashamed of yourselves. Your “cute” remarks, your knuckledragging blathering is an insult to all of us in the military family. How DARE you!
BTW it doesn’t say anywhere that this boy is her’s. It does kinda look like she’s holding his hand but then again she might not, or he got away from his mother/family unit and is rushing forward to see his dad and this lady held onto him so that his mother was able to get to him.
This post is disrepectful. The person that posted this is obviously ignorant and it pisses me off that this is even on fail blog. The sheer ignorance of the American public regading military issues is embarassing. Look it up, its called R & R (rest & relaxation) or mid-tour leave. All soldiers serving overseas for 12 months or more get it.
Really… this post needs to be removed. It is NOT a parenting fail. Rather an American public fail. Shame.
I’m in the military, active duty. I am NOT offended by this, I am amused. People need to get over themselves. I’ve seen many things on this site that people have laughed at that are obviously fake, or may have a perfectly good explanation. Military folk are getting all bent out of shape… does this hit home for you? I have nothing to fear, or hide, or worry about. So yes, I can laugh at it. I’ve known people to come home and find out they were being cheated on. It sucks. You aren’t going to stop people from doing crappy things to each other, so lighten up while you can. Learn to laugh a little sometimes, it makes life easier to deal with.
Again, nowhere is it indicated that the pregnant woman is actually the boy’s mother. This is a logic fail.
The boy is immaterial. It is the unborn child (I see from a previous reply that it was a boy) and the wording of the caption that is the crux of the jest.
Lmao WoW. I felt stupid. Took me a few seconds to figure it out. That sux. I’d be pissed
i can hold my shit for days!
maybe she can hold baby back for months, or put it back in
Usually I love failblog, but I had to speak up on this one. If you are deployed for 12 months, you get 2 weeks of R&R half way through. Obviously, she’s about 6 months pregnant. It is highly likely that its her husband’s child.
I don’t care when she got pregnant or by whom or what. We shouldn’t have to look at it (okay, turning my eyes away) but if you were there in person it would be hard not to. Trash win–looks like something you’d throw out with the trash.
The Fail here is continuing to have children when you aren’t even around to help raise the one you already have and might be killed in Iraq.
Why do people think having kids is some duty or right?
It’s not.
STFU, shame on you!
Having children isn’t a duty, but it is a blessing.
Shame on you for saying that, along with all the other good things they give up to protect our country, they have to give up having children.
no silly heads. you get leave in the middle of iraq, two weeks..plenty of time for more baby makin.
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He probably came home on R&R.
Could also be his daughter…
exactly what i was thinking
there’s a whole lot of ill informed assumin’ going on in this thread
He probably came home for some two week R&R, or they prectice invitro
Wow, you people (the one’s posting dumbass comments assuming she cheated and the dumbass who uploaded this picture) are morons. And her belly is freakin’ adorable!
Who says the kid belongs to the pregnant chick? This could just be a bad misunderstanding.
Fail! At her husband being in the military.
Way to ruin a very special moment for a military family who put their lives on hold to defend your right to speak such TRASH.
Get over it. She got pregnant while her husband was on leave (aka Rest and Relaxation). It’s not that hard to understand!
The person who posted this “fail” is the actual fail and should be ashamed.
Shame on you!!! Really? Are you that clueless to degrade our military families??? You clearly have no idea what our military families have endured the past 8 years to support the war on terror. YOu should be ashamed of yourself and I respectfually request you take this down out of respect for our military families.
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“Fail” fail… it’s called a “mid-tour leave”
I agree with Sis B, Shay, Wife Unit, and the rest: Fail Blog, you fail.
Please remove this offensive post.
He knocked her up on mid tour leave!
I have to admit, I laughed when I saw the caption, but in all reality, THE BABY WAS PROBABLY CONCEIVED DURING R&R. Deployed military people DO get to come home for leave approximately half way through their tour. APPROXIMATELY. Depends on his rank, and how many other people are in his unit. My sister’s husband was a Sargeant on his last tour, and had to wait until his entire unit RETURNED TO IRAQ before he could get R&R – so he didn’t get to leave until about 8 months into his tour. Some guys leave as early as 4 months in. I can’t believe so many people keep posting comments without reading ANY of the other comments. Like I said, I got the joke, I laughed, but more than likely the baby was conceived during R&R – whether the woman and the little boy are related is irrelevant, almost ALL army tours are 12-18 months now, so even if those 2 people were unrelated, the baby was still probably conceived on vacation.
Eh… I read them, but as an active duty servicemember, I felt it necessary to point them out for being an idiot
We stick up for our own I guess
i am active army and i work where everyone deployed in iraq, afghanistan and kuwait (and others) have to go before taking leave. it is rare to not get at least 2 weeks of leave during an 8-18 month deployment. there is an R&R policy. it is a privilidge, not a right which is why some people may know people who might not have had leave.
IT’S CALLED R & R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
R & R. Failblog FAIL.
MID TOUR LEAVE!!!!!!!!!
My fiance is in the Army and currently serving a 12 month tour in Afghanistan. Not everyone get’s their leave exactly six months through, there are many variables in when everyone takes leave. My fiance took his about 2 months into the tour, so it is possible that the preggo gal here got to see her hubby/boyfriend soon into his tour. Soooooo Failblog please get your facts straight before you post!
A Mid-Tour Leave Baby.
R&R baby. Happens a lot! Failblog should really get their facts straight. This makes the lady look bad when she was just welcoming home her husband. Some people don’t understand what home comings are like.
It’s called R&R people. Every year-long tour of duty comes with 12-15 days leave to see your family.
The guy is lucky she got preggers on RnR since he’ll actually get to witness the birth instead of her getting preggers before he left the first time.
oi.
Get your facts straight before you start calling military wives sluts.
Look at how she is dressed and look at how the kid is dressed, probably not her kid.
FYI, they do get a leave from their tours!
You’re an Idiot. If you knew anything about anything dealing with the military then you’d know that Soldiers get to come home during their tour for a period of 15 days during a 12 month tour. Idiots like you just cause problems…
i’m just gonna hope that the father of the child came home for 2 weeks and they were just really fertile those two weeks.
That’s his daughter!!!
Thank you nicho……like it took reading all this to see…….its his daughter who is saying welcome home probably preggo with his son-in-laws kid
I think the #epicfail here is this blog post. They did not take into consideration that there may be R & R (leave) during a deployment! There is also a nice story that goes along with this picture! #failblogfail
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/ZxffQWPUJoB/2nd+Brigade+Combat+Team+Soldiers+Return+Ft/3wCZlkMNYmL/Kendra+Kaplan
Kendra Kaplan, 5 months pregnant, watches as her husband SSG Joshua Kaplan and fellow U.S. Army soldiers arrive on August 18, 2009 in Fort Carson, Colorado. She had brought a sealed envelope with an ultrasound, so that they could learn the baby’s gender together upon Joshua’s arrival. The Kaplans will be having a baby boy, conceived during Joshua’s mid-term leave in March. Approximately 575 soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat team from the 4th Infantry Division returned Tuesday following a 12 month deployment to Iraq. At lower left is their son Ayden, 3.
I believe an apology and correction is due!
FailBlog has gotten weak as of late. They put just about anything on, even if it is not a fail.
Anyone realize that deployed service members get what’s called R&R… which is a chance to go home mid-tour to see family? A service member can go home as early as 3 months into a deployment.
It’s called an R&R baby. It happens all the time!
It’s called R&R (rest and relaxation) troops get it normally half way through their tour. Sometimes earlier, sometimes later and lasts for 2 weeks. This is not a fail, good for them, this is a win.
hello people there’s a little something called mid-tour, if you knew some one in the service you would know that.
You know, soliders have R&R they’re not gone the whole entire time….and the Tiger jokes are failing fast just like this comment I left.
Soldiers get two weeks of leave (vacation) at some point during a twelve month deployment. Plenty of wives get pregnant during those two weeks and give birth soon after the end of the deployment.
What a stupid picture. Submitter fail.
Hello! most of the time they get R&R for two weeks during the tour which equals a mid-tour baby.
Hey dumbasses, ever heard on leave?
Reminds me of an article about bastards in Judaism. Being a Jewish bastard makes one’s life very hard on top of the reputation.
So in a documented case from a few centuries ago, regarding a baby who was born while his father was absent for a whole year on a ship.
Well, the baby was evidently a bastard, except the mother took said her husband came to her in a dream, knew her in he biblical sense, and got her pregnant.
The Rabbis accepted her explanation, and the baby was not declared a bastard.
The text did not say what was the husband’s response once he returned home …
Maybe the mother was also serving in Iraq until she got pregnant?
The only comment in this row, which makes real sense.
Thank you!
They get to come home for R & R so it’s not as shocking as y’all might think.
Or the girl could be the boys sister. Then “DADDY” would really be her dad…
A difference of about 15 years between children is not that hard to happen. And if he was “DADDY” the first time at 20, he would be 35 by now, not too old to be in Iraq.
This being posted is fail. It’s very common for soldiers to be able to visit their families. If there was an emergency (e.g., death in the family), he’d be even more likely to get to come home early.
In a 12 month tour, most would get “r&r” somewhere in the middle. It’s very common to try and conceive and r&r baby.
Submitter fail indeed.
Every 12 month or longer tour in Iraq has a 2 week “mid-tour” break sometime during those 12 months. The only thing about this that is a fail is that whoever submitted it isn’t intelligent enough to understand the situation. Oh, the webmasters at failblog apparently are not bright enough to figure this out either.
Oh come on guys. Even if all of this is true, you can still find the humor in this
There’s such thing as R & R.
soldiers DO come home for vacation while on tour.
this is not a fail.
Even still, my first reaction was a priceless lol
It’s an R and R baby. When you do a tour of duty you get a 2 week break about the middle of the tour. This is not a fail… A lot of soldiers try for R&R babies because they don’t want to try before they leave because the baby will be born before they get back.
Definitely a R&R baby! Lots of military couples do that. So this is a failblog fail for adding a pic that wasn’t a fail! Ironic? lol!
Actually this whole thing is a fail becaues it’s completely plausable that she’s pregnant by him. You don’t get sent on a 12 month tour without a break; you go for 6 months, come back for a few weeks, and then get sent again. Learn the Military regulations before you comment.
This thread delivers!
It proofes the cliche that most of you americans are some kind of weirdly obediend!
Beein proud of the husband while he has to risk his as in some kind of war while you are pregnant at home. Jesus fcuk!
This habit I heard in history lessons about the nazis in the 3rd Reich.
YOU should feel ashame and cursed, for beeing a citizen on this earth who is proud to have family members in a war!
Propaganda blended persons .. especially you solider wifes!
*getting angry*
*is Canadian*
Do you NOT get what’s funny about this?
Her husband has been gone for 12 months, and she’s pregnant.
Babies are born after 9 months.
So she’s pregnant with someone who isn’t him.
Thank you for explaining the point again, but I wasn’t talking about the joke, my dear.
My post is concerning to that comments like
“shame on you making not-funny jokes about our brave soliders we are so proud of getting themself killed in some stupid war and it is an R&R-Baby made during some mid-tour-leave”
k?
Could be the daughter ?
fkn retards
It’s probably his daughter.
*ruined everyones fun*
Skanks who get knocked up by some other guy during deployments don’t show up to the welcome home ceremonies.
Who wants to get your ass kicked in a room full of people who think you deserve it?
masochists?
lol at all the army wives getting so butt hurt over this.
Most soldiers get a two week leave during their deployment. Whoever submitted this as a fail is probably a democrat.
R&R!
not just army wives, marine corps and navy wives too. there is such a thing as R&R leave and i got pregnant in the 2 weeks he was home. good news is he was home 2 days before our daughter was home!
That’s not to say she wasn’t sleeping around pre or post leave and in which case the kid might still be Jody’s
Prolly already been said but soldiers are allowed to come home usually during the middle of their tour in Iraq for a few weeks, so… its probably his if she’s not hiding the fact she’s preggers.
ahahahhhaaaaa
Whoever wrote that article might want to learn something about the military. Although it may have been a 12 month tour, there are periods of leave.
Maybe the girl is the daddys daugther
Let ME EXPLAINE….
Husband came home in March on R&R or LEAVE…. WE had SEX…LOTS AND LOTS OF SEX…. I got pregnant.. Husband came home in August. I was 5 months pregnant. BTW its a BOY.. ps. the little boy is ours.. NOT someone else’s. Any questions???
Whatever, the point is that (regardless if he got R&R) it’s funnier if she’s a whore. Quit ruining the joke.
OMFG! they’re not even ruining it though! they are just trying to get all of the morons to stop falsely accusing military wives of being unfaithful!
*REAL STORY*
Kendra Kaplan, 5 months pregnant, watches as her husband SSG Joshua Kaplan and fellow U.S. Army soldiers arrive on August 18, 2009 in Fort Carson, Colorado. She had brought a sealed envelope with an ultrasound, so that they could learn the baby’s gender together upon Joshua’s arrival. The Kaplans will be having a baby boy, concieved during Joshua’s mid-term leave in March. Approximately 575 soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat team from the 4th Infantry Division returned Tuesday following a 12 month deployment to Iraq. At lower left is their son Ayden, 3.
*REAL STORY*
As an Army wife for 12 years I can see both sides of this. (BTW, ever heard of R&R? Just Kidding – I couldn’t resist)
Seriously, it was confirmed to be an R&R baby and if it wasn’t it’s pretty safe to assume it was because most of the wives I’ve known are faithful despite the hardships military life can give.
That being said, the caption was funny because the news source inadvertently implied that although her husband’s unit had been gone for 12 months, she was pregnant. Most civilians are unaware of R&R so I could see how this is funny.
Again, it was confirmed it was an R&R baby BUT infidelity DOES happen. My husband has been deployed 3 times since we’ve been married (including right now). I’ve seen the ugly side with the cheating spouses. It’s frustrating to witness but it happens. One wife told her husband about her numerous affairs WHILE HE WAS DEPLOYED and he mentally shut down. They had to send him home early to get some professional help and she had the nerve a month later to show up when the rest of the unit came home! She was chased out of the gym (where the soldiers were going to arrive) by a mob of angry wifes who felt that the arrival ceremony was only for those who actually supported their soldiers!
My point? Lighten up! It was funny. It’s not implying that ALL Army wives (and husbands!) cheat or are white trash. However they do exist. Although it was confirmed that THIS particular wife got pregnant on R&R, it was a fail on the news source’s part that the implication that something odd had happened.
This is funny, but being an Army Wife, I’d like to point out that MOST babies are CONCEIVED on R&R leave….that means the 6 month point of a 12 month tour when the soldier gets to come home for a few weeks to see his family before going back to war for another 6 months…and this woman looks about 6 months along…. Just a helpful note
So it says a 12 month tour in Iraq but what it doesn’t say is when he came home for R&R… any tours longer than 8 months require R&R leave… she probably got pregnant then.
They do get to go home in the middle.
I’m not sure who is more ignorant deserves the fail here. The person who posted the pic, the person who allowed it in the front line up, or the people who gave it a high rating…
i was going to post something akin to your comment but you beat me to it…
Troops come home for something called r&r halfway through their deployment, so yeah, that’s probably when she got preggers.
good job failblog. you failed again, but i guess that’s what happens when you have a fist full of retards working for you.
they get to come home on leave dumbass.
more and more of these unfunny non-fails are going up here. it just makes the site frustrating instead of entertaining. if you run a site making fun of folks failing, it’s less funny when you fail so much yourself. failblog is slowly going to shit.
and what’s with the text added in to the videos at the end? If it’s funny, let it speak for itself. you are adding nothing to the humor.
UM stupid people u are they get a 2 WEEK LEAVE so maybe not a paternity fail ever think of that damn talk about stupidity you guys are stupid
It’s called “leave.” This is a FAIL at posting without facts.
in the context of the provided picture, this makes complete sense but when adding leaves and such this isn’t a hard concept to grasp…
I know people who have went over seas and actually got a couple weeks back, so more than likely that’s when it happened.
Usually on a 12-month tour, at the six month point you get to go home for about two weeks of R&R. She looks about six months pregnant. Or she could be like any other military wife and was shagging his superiors stateside.
We don’t even know if that’s his wife, it could be his daughter or someone. It’s just stupid to assume things that people have no proof of like she’s been cheating. and even if it is his wife she could have been there with him and conceived a child.
During a twelve month deployment military members are given 2 weeks for rest and relaxation when they can return home at about the halfway point. It is totally plausible that his wife is not a whore and is having his baby.
I saw this in person. This mom was at the homecoming back in August at the post we are stationed at. My husband came home same day, same group of soldiers. I saw her and the kid there and was a little surprised that she stood in a gym of 600 people with her belly showing, but at least she was in shape!! and the news crews loved it!!! And yes, I’m sure that she got pregnant when her hubby was home on R&R.
Look, this article is very fitting on failblog and I can see how it could be construed as being humorous to some. That being said, after serving as a Platoon Leader in Iraq, I don’t find this funny at all. I may be biased about this. There IS optional two week leave for soldiers serving a period of more than 6 months in Iraq and we had many soldiers come back as fathers-to-be. Although some units don’t get the optional two week leave most due and this is the most plausible reason for her pregnancy. I don’t find this funny because spousal infidelity is a very real problem for soldiers serving overseas. Many of my soldiers were destroyed emotionally and wrecked financially as their spouse, sometimes openly, ran around with another man. Soldier had little or no recourse. Even in the best marriages, every soldier wonders about his wife’s fidelity but accepts there is little he can do if she is unfaithful. So, I would like to assume that this is a happy reunion with no scandals involved. Infidelity may be humorous to some of you but it is tragic to those involved.
wow.. .looks like a battle buddies wife.. then again, we do get 15 DAYS HOME LEAVE WHEN WE GO TO IRAQ DUMBSHITS…. and funny part is.. most units only get SIX MONTHS IN IRAQ……
elephant’s gestation period is 22 months…so..nothing’s wrong with her pregnancy..
Whoever made this must not think of R&R…when a lot of women get pregnant when the husbands come home on a 2 week leave from overseas. Duh.
I think this is flippin hilarious, but I’m not gonna pass judgement simply because I am a military wife and I live right off an Army base, so I know from personal knowledge that most soldiers get 2 weeks R&R anywhere between 3-9 months after they deploy. I actually know a lady who got pregnant with her 2nd set of triplets (>.< Holy cow, six kids in less than five years!) while her husband was on R&R and she was about 7 1/2 months along when he came home again. Just sayin, don't be too judgemental.
A good picture but it’s really a WIN! See: http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/welcomehome.asp
Doubt many people are going to see my comment way down here, buuut…
http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/welcomehome.asp Disproved. This FAIL is a fail. She got pregnant when he was home on R&R.
U know soldiers get to come home part of the way through a deployment… this whole thing is a fail.
okay so im glad yall are trying to make military wives look like total sluts, for one i am a military wife so i know what im talking about and for two, when they do long tours like that they get r&r when they get to come home like half way, so she could very easly be 6 months pregnant so you need to think about this stuff before you try making us look bad. thanks
1. There’s nothing that shows she is that child’s mother. That woman’s husband could have been gone for less than 9 months.
2. Maybe they tried unsuccessfully to have a child before he left, so maybe she got in-vitro while he was gone. And that would be the ultimate welcome home present.
Kendra Kaplan, 5 months pregnant, watches as her husband Staff Sgt. Joshua Kaplan and fellow U.S. Army soldiers arrive on August 18, 2009 in Fort Carson, Colorado. She had brought a sealed envelope with an ultrasound, so that they could learn the baby’s gender together upon Joshua’s arrival. The Kaplans will be having a baby boy, concieved during Joshua’s mid-term leave in March. Approximately 575 soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat team from the 4th Infantry Division returned Tuesday following a 12 month deployment to Iraq. At lower left is their son Ayden, 3.
Thank you for posting this. I swear, some of those comments make me wonder about the underuse of psych meds in this country. What a bunch of retarded comments!
He had fun on his R&R
Not a fail….many possibilities. The most probable one is that the baby was conceived during the soldiers midterm leave.
Or maybe she is really welcoming home her Daddy and showing off she got pounded while he was over there suffering.
You’re a dumbass. Clearly your mother shouldn’t have conceived you with her brother…
Some of you are just retarded.
My husband’s nephew is an Army soldier in Afghanistan who came home for R&R last summer, and my in-laws got the call about a month after he went back to “Hell” that his wife was prego.
Some of y’all just just too quick to judge.
OR he came home for R&R.. You guys are WAY to quick to judge & too stupid to think of that. HAHA.
Don’t think you can come back from tour for R&R?!
Good Lord, so many morons out there! It is obvious her husband came back for a break during his tour!! Almost ALL soldiers get that privilege, regardless of the branch of the military they serve in. My boyfriend came home from Iraq for a 2-week break halfway through his tour. Does anyone out there REALLY think she’d be displaying her belly like this otherwise?!?! There’s some serious inbreeding going on with some of you people. I can only hope you’re just joking….
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