Enlisted men (or women) shouldn't be allowed to have a family :-)


Senior NCOs and junior enlisted are equally capable of messing up
their marriages. I still remember one of my E-2s in Korea coming
to me for advice because his wife and baby were due in a couple of
days (on an unaccompanied tour!), while he was in the middle of a
two-week VD restriction.

And I was in the orderly room when an E-6's wife called after curfew,
wanting to speak with him. Unfortunately, he was down range at his
yobo's place for the night. I told her that I didn't know where he
was (technically true) but that I'd have him call her.

Okay, so an E-6 isn't a senior NCO. We had an E-7 retire and a month
or so later came through to tell us about his new job as a courier and
how he was staying with his yobo. That's the last we saw of him, but
about a week later we got a letter from his wife in CONUS wanting to
know where he was and why she had to move out of on-post housing. That
was the first she knew about his retirement.

The officers were for the most part less messy. Or at least more
discreet.

Sigh.