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I went through boot camp recently (2011) and most of the other recruits had a lot of appreciation for their girlfriends back home during that 3 months away from home. So it was no surprise that so many of them got married almost immediately after boot camp. I always said that it was a mistake to marry so young, but some of those guys had been with these girls for many years before leaving home, and at 18 or 19 you really don't know better. But then again I went in a bit older than everyone else and had a few more years of relationship experience under my belt.
When you know you might die in combat you want to at least have someone to remember you and maybe leave an heir to carry on your name as your ticket to immortality.
A man is not really dead until people forget his name.............
1. Money and housing benefits
2. Not wanting to get stationed separately from this person they think they are in love with. Marriage is the ONLY way to prevent going to separate bases.
3. Immaturity and being away from home for the first time
4. Loneliness and despair, wanting to ensure you have someone by your side and won't move to a new place where you know no one.
Oh yeah, and if the spouse is a civilian, they can now get health insurance for free. Not to mention that young ranking troops CAN NOT live with a civilian unless they are married. If a bf/gf wants to move to where the new military member is, they CAN NOT live together, as the single military member must live in the dorms. It is the ONLY way they can be together off base or even on base.
dorms hell, we had to live on the ship in the same rack whether you were underway or on the beach. once you made e-4 you could get on the wait list for housing if you were single, but getting married was your only way to real housing.
My son's longtime girlfriend followed him down to where he was stationed after she graduated from college. She had rented an apartment in a bad area over the internet, had no job and no medical insurance. They got married at City Hall before his first deployment so she would have the benefit of the support of the Army, and could get away from that apartment. It's still up in the air, whether or not it will turn out to be a good match or not, although she's a nice and ambitious girl.
No need of one for me, you didn't earn more if you were married and the waiting list for married quarters was 3 years. Back then unless I was married my child didn't receive any money from me if I snuffed it and there is no benefit to the family with regards to health care as it's free here anyway. I took a 50% wage cut to join.
I enlisted to avoid being drafted.
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