Terran Echegoyen-McCabe and Christina Luna are the two mothers depicted nursing their children while wearing their National Guard uniforms. Echegoyen-McCabe says she breast feeds her twin girls on lunch breaks when she’s on duty. As a member of the Air National Guard, she does her best to fulfill her commitment to her country without sacrificing her commitment to her 10-month-old children.
“I have breast fed in our lobby, in my car, in the park… I pump, usually in the locker room,” says Echegoyen-McCabe. “I’m proud to be wearing a uniform while breastfeeding. I’m proud of the photo and I hope it encourages other women to know they can breast feed whether they’re active duty, guard or civlian.
There isn't a policy saying we can or cannot breast-feed in uniform. I think it's something that every military mom who is breast-feeding has done.”
But, Military officials said it was a breach of the rules to use the uniform to promote non-military causes.
National Guard spokesman Captain Keith Kosik told the BBC that there was no regulation against breast-feeding in uniform.
But he said the National Guard took issue with the uniform being used "by an outside entity for a cause", regardless if it was a positive one.
Capt Kosik said the women were unlikely to face disciplinary action.
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