Thanks for the good find Kinky!
I wasnt aware of the fact ( and it seems neither was the guy from NewYorker/reuters) that it wasnt all that easy to get one of those surgeries.
Coming from a country with a relatively small military force i didnt take into account how many people actualy are eligible for those surgeries.
In the light of those two facts, that were unfortunately omitted in the reuters story, the whole thing seem hardly noteworthy.
sorry to have robbed your time, move on, shoo shoo, nothing to see