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Shout out to all the Nat Guard and Marines currently 'defending our freedom' in LA!
... and of course their famously faithful wives they married 3 months before their first deployment!
More interestingly, it's also pretty common for girls who wanna leave their man to push him into service so she doesn't have to deal with him after. In boot we had a wall of dear John's 2 weeks in
Yup yup yup.
On one level, I genuinely empathize with guys going through that... probably totally emotionally and mentally devastating for the vast majority of them.
On the other hand... its so common, and usually so many people in their lives will tell them that.... that is probably gonna happen to them, and they don't listen.
Shit sucks man, I've never been in any military service, but I've known guys its happened to.
Oh and then you've got this: Hrm, could this phenomenon maybe play a role in female service members getting SA'd and raped?
You know, just maybe?
Nah, it's just the macho dudebro attitude that pervades a lot of the military with a side helping of good old boys club, not jilted husbands.
The macho asshole dudebro culture is certainly the main and biggest part of the problem.
I am just saying that maybe the jilted lover thing is also another part of the problem.