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Gaspar said: The army started going bad when they gave enlisted men married housing.

Forgive me while I react negatively. I threw away a career in the AF after 8 yrs because of jerk-wad officers with the attitude that their degree in basket weaving made them a better class of human than me. Your comment strikes a nerve. I suppose you probably would have said (or depending on your age--actually said) the same about the n!ggerz too. The enlisted men carry the services. Especially in the Army where they are the ones getting their asses shot off while the officers sit in the mess tent. They do not deserve the kind of second-class treatment your comment suggests. FYI, at my base the enlisted and officers had separate (segregated) housing areas. Still that way today. The holier-than-thou officers need not even acknowledge that they have enlisted members living on the base unless they choose to.

Cynicom said: The enlisted men were friends of the officers wives on a regular basis.

I know I was. And a couple of the female pilots too. They liked that "unsophisticated, eat-with-their-hands kind of guy" sometimes. All that plastic, political BS they have to go through to get, or to keep getting their husbands, promoted wears on them. Sometimes they just needed a BANG. It didn't matter to them if I lived on base, off base or in the singles dorm. I was "friends" with them from all 3 locales. What mattered to them was that I was a real person. Not a jock with a control stick up my ass. And I treated her like a real person and not a necessary prop for my career.
Enlisted puke Air Force.

You go ND.
Must have struck a raw nerve, eh? ;^)

If an enlisted man in the combat arms wants to get married then get the hell out of the Army and find a new career. You may not like the advice, but it worked damned well in the old army.

So let me get this straight. You're bragging about how you "banged", as you so delicately put it, the wives of officers on the bases where you were stationed? Is that it? And you are saying that this was some sort of public service you offered these poor women to offer them "relief" from the travails of being married to an officer?

I'll hold off further response until I see how you answer this one.