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A 30-year-old army major is making waves in Taiwan for joining the growing ranks of women in uniform posing online without their uniforms - or much of anything at all for that matter.

Major Fan Chun-chen, a communications officer at the Missile Command of the General Staff Headquarters, exposed her most private side on her blog in June, Taiwan media reports said, becoming at least the third woman in the military to do so in recent years. read more

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Popular opinion is divided over whether or not a tough line should be drawn between such antics and their profession - especially when it comes to people in the military.

Almost everything Maj Fan has to offer can be seen in a number of the 1,500 photographs on her blog, grouped under themes such as "OL (office lady) style", "Lounging at home" and "Extreme narcissism".

Most showed off her cleavage and bare legs. Some pictured her apparently almost nude, wearing only fishnet stockings that did not exactly cover her backside and with her private parts covered only by her arms.

"I just love to show off myself," she wrote in the blog, without concealing the fact that she is a military officer. "I love myself so much. No more pretenses."

As of last week, her site had attracted more than 20,000 eyeballs. The ever-alert Taiwanese media splashed some of the provocative pictures in the top-selling Apple Daily and on television, to the dismay of some observers.

Ma Wen-chun, a legislator with the ruling Kuomintang, said soldiers are still soldiers even after work, and should be held to higher standards.

"How would she be able to lead male servicemen after this?" he was quoted as saying.

In response, Defence Ministry spokesman Luo Shao-he said on Sunday that Maj Fan had not broken any military rules because she had posted the pictures on her personal blog and had not revealed any secrets - at least of the military kind.

But he added that military personnel should be mindful to separate their private lives from work, and be "responsible" towards society.

The following day, a disciplinary hearing at Missile Command ruled that Maj Fan had "damaged the image of the military through her personal acts, as well as neglected the basic requirement to be poised and prudent for servicemen".