I served and stayed single during my term. I truly feel it's rather unhealthy to get married when you're going to be gone for months on end and expect the other person to go into "monk" mode for that time. Also, usually when people join the military they are physically at the prime of their life and usually the person you picked as a partner is too. That means that both person's libidos are at maximum levels. Frankly, and I don't want to be insulting here but it requires a lot of suspension of disbelief to think that the wife won't go get themselves some dick while you're gone being a "hero".
The sad thing is this guy might already be fucked over. The military has laws where your wife is entitled to 50% of your retirement when it starts if you've been married for over 10 years. That is complete trash. Some spoiled bitch could get 50% of your retirement income because you were stupid enough to sign some papers not knowing the consequences and that's what it comes down to. It's beyond divorce rape as it is automatically granted. This is in addition to getting divorce raped.
It's just like the military. This might be a bit controversial but the military doesn't even know what they're doing. They are ALL taking orders and only know what they're supposed to know. All info is compartmentalized they're told that they fight for "x good cause" and given the info they need.. Recruiters go to schools and try to get 17 year old kids to sign up so they get brainwashed early. The military encourages getting married as well. Probably so there is a generation that grows up on military bases ready to refill their parents spot. I spent my time in, I know how it goes. I try not to talk to much shit about it but it's hard to just say it's great when it's not.
I wish we could do better. I love our country compared to many others but I'll be the first to admit we have some major problems, as we can all see; and disconnection from our own government.
During my time in people were getting married left and right. There are incentives such as getting out of the dorms, higher dependent bah (housing pay), separation pay ect. A lot of people in the military view marriage as a right of passage as well. As far as people directly encouraging it.. I actually did see this. My coworkers were constantly asking my friend when he was going to marry his girlfriend (gf was a single mother). "Mary that girl."
He ended up marying her even though he had already been divorced a year prior, luckily he wasn't raped to hard from his first divorce. One of my female coworkers divorced three times in the two years I knew her. There was drama of her selling her husbands stuff during her final divorce while i was there. Another girl just moved to my base during my final year at that base, she was bragging about getting her higher ranking husbands truck during divorce and how she was going to sell it. I heard many people say "just get married and get out of the dorms."
I'm sure people have different personal experiences, but there are without a doubt incentives that amount to paltry amounts of money as you said - and the freedom of living away from an 8x10 stone dorm cell that people have committed suicide in before you.
We don't need Islam for laws like that though. That's like saying we need Catholicism for morals, or we need christianity to be nice. We can make laws without the whole spreading religion thing.
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I served and stayed single during my term. I truly feel it's rather unhealthy to get married when you're going to be gone for months on end and expect the other person to go into "monk" mode for that time. Also, usually when people join the military they are physically at the prime of their life and usually the person you picked as a partner is too. That means that both person's libidos are at maximum levels. Frankly, and I don't want to be insulting here but it requires a lot of suspension of disbelief to think that the wife won't go get themselves some dick while you're gone being a "hero".
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The sad thing is this guy might already be fucked over. The military has laws where your wife is entitled to 50% of your retirement when it starts if you've been married for over 10 years. That is complete trash. Some spoiled bitch could get 50% of your retirement income because you were stupid enough to sign some papers not knowing the consequences and that's what it comes down to. It's beyond divorce rape as it is automatically granted. This is in addition to getting divorce raped.
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It's just like the military. This might be a bit controversial but the military doesn't even know what they're doing. They are ALL taking orders and only know what they're supposed to know. All info is compartmentalized they're told that they fight for "x good cause" and given the info they need.. Recruiters go to schools and try to get 17 year old kids to sign up so they get brainwashed early. The military encourages getting married as well. Probably so there is a generation that grows up on military bases ready to refill their parents spot. I spent my time in, I know how it goes. I try not to talk to much shit about it but it's hard to just say it's great when it's not.
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I wish we could do better. I love our country compared to many others but I'll be the first to admit we have some major problems, as we can all see; and disconnection from our own government.
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During my time in people were getting married left and right. There are incentives such as getting out of the dorms, higher dependent bah (housing pay), separation pay ect. A lot of people in the military view marriage as a right of passage as well. As far as people directly encouraging it.. I actually did see this. My coworkers were constantly asking my friend when he was going to marry his girlfriend (gf was a single mother). "Mary that girl."
He ended up marying her even though he had already been divorced a year prior, luckily he wasn't raped to hard from his first divorce. One of my female coworkers divorced three times in the two years I knew her. There was drama of her selling her husbands stuff during her final divorce while i was there. Another girl just moved to my base during my final year at that base, she was bragging about getting her higher ranking husbands truck during divorce and how she was going to sell it. I heard many people say "just get married and get out of the dorms."
I'm sure people have different personal experiences, but there are without a doubt incentives that amount to paltry amounts of money as you said - and the freedom of living away from an 8x10 stone dorm cell that people have committed suicide in before you.
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We don't need Islam for laws like that though. That's like saying we need Catholicism for morals, or we need christianity to be nice. We can make laws without the whole spreading religion thing.
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