Soldier Accuses Wife Of Stealing Assets

Star Tribune ^ | May 14, 2007 | PAUL GUSTAFSON

[angkor]

patience is not the long suit of many individuals.

I could buy that if we were talking about girlfriends or even fiancees. But not married spouses.

My wife and I were married overseas, and were separated for 9 months due to immigration bumbling.

It was painful (for both of us), but never, not once ever, did I think of divorce as a solution to my "impatience".

There a many many other reasons for a marital breakup, but mere "impatience" over a deployment is not one of them, no matter what.

[magslinger]

During the (name of war) war this kind of stuff was pretty common.

I knew a WWII vet with a similar story. This one is as old as Odysseus.

[art_rocks]

During every war, this stuff happens.

[art_rocks]

I know I scored badly on the English portion of my SAT, but I don’t see in the story where the soldier left everything in her name while he was gone.

If everything was in her name, she wouldn’t of needed to have a false Power of Attorney to sell the house.

[art_rocks]

A few years ago I was told this story from a Navy officer attending an Army school.

In Hawaii, the carrier went out for its deployment of 5-6 months. A day out, the ship had problems and came back to port but didn’t inform anyone. Lots of sailors got home and their wives boyfriends had already moved into the house. Lots of divorcees was the results. This was in the early to mid 90s.

[ansel12]

“During every war, this stuff happens.”

I know but it personalizes it more, and stirs more personal memories to refer to a specific time of many of our own lives and times of service.

The Vietnam War also encompasses the largest single group of males on this forum that have endured these experiences.

[boxerblues]

That’s right, these little b&%*@%s are marrying these guys, just so they become the beneficiary of the soldiers SGLI, that BTW is why the specifically target infantry, higher mortality rate. And when these guys come back alive, it disappoints the little whore.

You have just described my daughter in law. She actually told him up front all she wanted was his military benefits

[art_rocks]

I know this stuff happens to single people who pick the wrong person to handle their finances while they are away.

During the first Gulf War, had a SPC in my section who had left his mother with his bank account. He came from a poor family and when his mother saw his bank account, about $1000, she bought some nice Christmas presents for his siblings. The SPC was mad she spent the money> He knew she didn’t spend it for herself and his mother wasn’t greedy.

[ansel12]

I guess many of us remember the bar maids and waitresses that had their sob stories of trying to raise funds to “get back home”, or “ have their child move back in with them”, etc., etc.

Those are excellent scams for basic training and AIT bases, because of the constant rotation of boys flush with their first pay checks and trusting attitudes, and their new manhood.