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To: baltiless
...townies with bleak futures trying to hitch their wagon to lonely and unsuspecting kids barely out of bootcamp.

Same in the Air force.

After I took command of an organization with 164 troops I was warned about some women who preyed upon my troops as they had four year controlled tours. These women lived in the little dump of a town outside the main gate and would do what it took to get some lonely, just away from home Airman to marry them then when they got orders four years later they would file for divorce and seduce another. The "Sugar Daddy" writ small. They lived in enlisted housing while married and got all on-base privileges until the divorce and would then rent a trailer outside the gate until they married again.

Instead of letting this crap happen (I was prior enlisted and wanted to really protect my troops) I became the only officer on base, and in recent history, to do what was needed to stop this garbage. The end result was all these women were declared Persona non Grata on base and they all ended up either going to jail for threatening me or just moving away.

The one good thing about these women was they had no intention of getting pregnant for some reason. I guess the vagaries of trying to get smallish support checks from airmen was too much of a hassle so no children were harmed or created. They also seemed to like hanging out at the local dive bar and get free drinks from the airmen all night so kids would interfere with their partying.

18 posted on 08/18/2014 4:27:57 PM PDT by OldMissileer
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To: OldMissileer
Same in the Air force.

I am retired Air Force too. I think maybe I was a little naive about what was going on. I have a feeling there were some good women, right along side the bad ones. I know, and I think you do too, that most enlisted people hate living in the barracks. I know I hated it. I heard rumors, though I never knew for sure if the rumors were true, that some enlisted men married enlisted women on paper only, so they could move out of the barracks. If this is true, it should show people how much the guys hate barracks living, and may also contribute to young guys marrying the first woman who came along.

20 posted on 08/18/2014 6:24:42 PM PDT by Mark17 (Obama & Nero? Both Emperors. The difference is Nero played a fiddle, while Obama plays a "flute")
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