Bigger breasts offered as perk to U.S. soldiers

NEW YORK, July 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. Army has long lured recruits with the slogan "Be All You Can Be," but now soldiers and their families can receive plastic surgery, including breast enlargements, on the taxpayers' dime.
The New Yorker magazine reports in its July 26th edition that members of all four branches of the U.S. military can get face-lifts, breast enlargements, liposuction and nose jobs for free -- something the military says helps surgeons practice their skills.
"Anyone wearing a uniform is eligible," Dr. Bob Lyons, chief of plastic surgery at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio told the magazine, which said soldiers needed the approval of their commanding officers to get the time off.
Between 2000 and 2003, military doctors performed 496 breast enlargements and 1,361 liposuction surgeries on soldiers and their dependents, the magazine said.
The magazine quoted an Army spokeswoman as saying, "the surgeons have to have someone to practice on."

"Someone to practice on"???? Since when are they likely to be required to do an emergency breast enlargement in a field hospital? I'm a bit of a MASH fan andI certainly don't remember Hawkeye, Trapper, or Honeycut being asked to perfom the procedure, though maybe Hotlips Hoolahan secretly got some treatment from Frank Burns.

And Genghis and Attila's tax dollars as they sit here in low-tax Hong Kong paying US taxes are helping to pay for this..... tee hee hee.