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The U.S. Army now offers free cosmetic surgery -- including liposuction and breast enlargements -- to new recruits as incentives for joining the military. So far, the military has performed almost 500 breast enlargement surgeries, all at taxpayer expense, of course. Be all that you can be...
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There has been a great deal of speculation recently that the government might reinstate the draft at some point, in order to replenish the nation's armed forces.
- "Anyone wearing a uniform is eligible," Dr. Bob Lyons, the chief of plastic surgery at Brooke Army Medical Center, said recently, in his office in San Antonio.
- It is true: personnel in all four branches of the military and members of their immediate families can get face-lifts, nose jobs, breast enlargements, liposuction, or any other kind of elective cosmetic alteration, at taxpayer expense.
- (For breast enlargements, patients must supply their own implants.)
- For most procedures, there's at least a ten-day recovery period, and while soldiers are recuperating they're on paid medical leave rather than vacation.
- A Defense Department spokeswoman confirmed the existence of the plastic-surgery benefit.
- According to the Army, between 2000 and 2003 its doctors performed four hundred and ninety-six breast enlargements and a thousand three hundred and sixty-one liposuction surgeries on soldiers and their dependents.
- In the first three months of 2004, it performed sixty breast enhancements and two hundred and thirty-one liposuctions.
- "The benefit of offering elective cosmetic surgery to soldiers is more for the surgeon than for the patient," Lyons said.
- We do it to maintain our skills"---skills that are critical, he added, when it comes to doing reconstructive surgery on soldiers who have been wounded.
- "If the Army is doing breast augmentations, it's doing it to practice breast augmentations, period."
- There has been talk lately among soldiers that this benefit is indeed being used as a recruiting tool, but there is no mention of it in any of the recruiting literature.
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