But the PI wives were also less likely to screw around on them once we went to sea. So I've got mixed feelings about this.
That wasn't what I observed, either when I was stationed in Subic or back here in the states.
For example, when I was stationed in Subic, there was a cruiser homeported there named the USS Sterritt (sp). Whenever it pulled out of port, you could always be assured of seeing dozens of Filipina wives of the Sterritt crewmen down at the Sampaguitta (sp) enlisted club, near the main gate, picking up dates for the evening. A buddy of mine at the time did it once and almost got caught by her husband. Picked her up and went to her home up in base housing and had to hastily escape thru a back window when the husband pulled in. The wife told him the husbands ship was at sea :-)
I never hung out at the Sampaguitta enlisted club, other than going there for lunch one day when we were on the Subic side of the base for training (I was stationed up on the Cubi Point NAS side of the base). There were litterly dozens of Sterritt wives there already (at noon) looking for dates :-)
I won't dispute you...you saw that stuff. Maybe that's a thing for Filipino girls IN the PI. In Alameda, it looked different to me there.
Sort of OT. My cousin's married neighbor had a 'boyfriend' visit one night and the husband came home unexpectedly. The wife threw the boyfriend's clothes out the second story bedroom window, so the naked guy jumped out the same window and broke his leg. The entire neighborhood found out when the ambulance arrived.