The US army is offering its soldiers and their families plastic surgery, including breast enlargements, paid for by the taxpayer.
The New Yorkermagazine has reported that members of all four branches of the military can now 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 Centre 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 dependants, the magazine said.
The magazine quoted an Army spokeswoman as saying, "the surgeons have to have someone to practice on".