Posted on 02/04/2006 5:41:48 AM PST by freepatriot32
"If we wanted you maggots to have a wife we would issue you one." - Unknown Drill Sargent.
My first pick was not all that great.
Second time around was/is much better.
i just wonder if the army is going to train the spouses on how to handle the shock and awe on the honeymoon :-)
The Onion?
The ACLU will soon sue since this program discriminated against sluts and gays.
When he makes the bed and folds his clothes better than you do.
I applaud the efforts.
lol
So what do they call their contraception initiative?
Missile defense?
Ladies, best avoid men whose idea of foreplay is yelling "incoming," or "Geronimo."
I see it all the time.
On the flip side, I see sailors who vow that they would never cheat on their wives and then find themselves in a notorious port with booze in their system, surrounded by throngs of young, beautiful (and very willing) foreign ladies. The famous cry of "What happens in port stays in port!" is heard and these men go crazy.
I've seen this countless times as well.
Nice stereotypes...
56,000 in the Army _ active, National Guard and Reserve _ have divorced since the campaign in Afghanistan started in 2001.
Some 740,000 people _ or a little more than half of all troops in the active-duty armed forces _ are married.
Of those, some 96,000 had spouses also in uniform in the 2004 budget year, according to Pentagon figures.
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What a frivolous, outcome-based article, LOL The above are the only facts I can see in it.
But, if about half of the 740k are ARMy, 56k divorces ain't bad--a ratio of about 1 divorce per 13 marriages endind in divorce over a 5 year period. Civilian stats are worse than that, I think. (In this quick math, I have assumed that about half of all active duty troops are Army)
Same here. I could have used this training prior to #1.
whoops, shound have typed 1 divorce in 6.5 marriages......
I recently saw a rerun of 'In Living Color' where the bum is trying to get into the army. Get an ugly wife and a messed up life, In the Arrrrmy!
Are you saying that what I wrote is not true? Or rarely happens? I know many happily married sailors. Most of them are older and/or on their second or third wives.
For many (and by no means all) young, impetuous navy marriages end disastrously.
A lot of the marriages that end as a result of deployment were headed that way anyway. It takes a very special person to be able to live their lives when their spouse is gone and then quickly re-adjust when they return. Military families are some of the strongest people on the planet, and when you've found the right one there is no stronger love.
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