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BMT (RIP)
11-25-2004, 04:42
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1041125/asp/foreign/story_4047120.asp
How many in this bunch has gotten the letter??
BMT
I can't say I did, personally. I never really got attached until I was over 30 years old and we are going to be in Las Vegas celebrating our 31st anniversary on Dec. 8.
I was detailed to the Ft. Bragg MARS station in 1969 . The troops didn't have access to the internet as they do today. They would wait in line for hours for their one chance to call home. I remember calling one soldier's wife and she refused to talk to him. I didn't have the heart to repeat what she said and merely reported that the *itch wasn't home..
I realize this was a two sided story but during the Vietnam war the Ft. Bragg Main NCO club was reputted to be a great olace to pick up wifes of deployed troopers.
Maybe there weren't enough "Dear John" letters. At lleast there is some amount of honesty is them. There were several cases of soldiers returning home early or unexpectedly to find wifey in bed with Jody. Thus the saying: "Spend a dime (those days) and save a marriage." Perhaps that should be included in the SOF mottos. :(
Goggles Pizano
11-25-2004, 09:18
Ah, youth. Count me as "tagged, your out". Got mine while in basic at Jackson. She was 19/ I was 22. Good thing I had an understanding DS, made me PT extra for a week straight to "purge that female" from my system! :)
NousDefionsDoc
11-25-2004, 10:12
I got one in basic training. I was in love with this girl and she promised to wait. That lasted all of about 7 weeks.
Said she was marrying the son of a rice farmer, rich folks.
I didn't go home until I had been in the 82nd Airplane Gang for a while. I saw her at a store while I was there. She had two snot-nosed kids wearing nothing but diapers and t-shirts with her. Her butt was as wide as the tailgate on a C-130. Apparently the bottom had dropped out of the rice market and she and hubby were now living in a camper in his parent's driveway, with an extension cord run through the window of their house for electricity. I didn't even recognize her.
Later that day she called me. Said she had made a mistake and would leave him and would I take her to Bragg.
I laughed and hung up the phone.
Like the Hadjis say, God is great.
I've heard first hand many stories from some friends and penpals while deployed or after coming home. One of the worst that I can remember off-hand was a young Marine who was in Afghanistan a few years ago, for the first go-round. He would write often and tell me he thought his wife abandoned him since she never wrote him back or sent him anything. Sure enough he came home to an empty house and an empty bank account.
I detest beyond words that can be said in polite company the type of women that do this sh*t.
Shark Bait
11-26-2004, 09:37
I realize this was a two sided story but during the Vietnam war the Ft. Bragg Main NCO club was reputted to be a great olace to pick up wifes of deployed troopers. :(
Heck, when I was at Bragg 83-85, you could tell which units were in the field by whose wives were at the NCO club. Same ole shit.
A married officer who asked to remain anonymous said he would welcome a Dear John letter.
”That would be great. God I would be free.”
The above cracked me up.
Being active in FRG I've seen those letters or calls go both directions. To me, there's something inherently wrong with D/X'ing a person by phone or in a letter. I hate it when people don't have the stones to say "I'm outta here" face to face.
The above cracked me up.
Being active in FRG I've seen those letters or calls go both directions. To me, there's something inherently wrong with D/X'ing a person by phone or in a letter. I hate it when people don't have the stones to say "I'm outta here" face to face.
Funny as hell! I must be a sucker for punishment...
"Do what you need to do...I'm just trying to get out of here alive"! :eek:
"You are insensitive."
"Call it what you want too...Those f$%#cking CARBOMBS! Make a person think twice about life!"