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Originally posted by AKA_Monet
From what I understand and read, the military wants bonafide professional marriage counselors to discuss the pressures of holding a family together while serving, especially in times of war. What we are asking of our armed forces is to basically shutdown our emotions so that they can do their jobs effectively and not have to worry about what people think when they come home--until they have a firm grip of what happened to them... Post traumatic stress disorder does that to a person... Most family, especially young families, are unable or thought to not have the "life experience skills" to deal with that kind of "reality"... At least that is what I read.
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A lot of people in the military get married very young, which is a main factor of why the divorce rate is so high in the armed forces. So why do these servicemen get married so young? MONEY! You get an additional pay raise once you get married, and even more raises after each birth of a child. War and deployments also don't help much either, I dont know if anybody saw "Jarhead" but there is a scene where there is a bulletin board where guys posted pictures of their sig others that had cheated on them or flat out left them while they were called away. Another factor is the constant moving around that active duty military personnel deal with. If some guy is stationed in Tx and has been dating a local girl for about a year and hears that he is transferring to Ky, he may want her to come along with him.
ETA: There was this one 19yr old kid in my tech school in Tx who was not only seperated from his wife, but was waiting for the divorce to go through so he could get engaged to his current GF. WTF?