My team is comprised mostly of retired veterans (Air Force, Navy and Army). We discussed how soldiers when deployed overseas the ratio of men to women in certain stations is very one-sided. Especially Korea. My teammate relayed a story of how this woman was deployed to Korea for a year (normal unaccompanied tour). Anyway, she met this man over there and fell in love. She went home on leave after being there for 8 months and demanded a divorce. LEFT her children and husband for this man.I wonder if they are still together now? The divorce rate within the military is high. And with the frequent deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan I am pretty sure the rate is even higher now, especially among the Army personnel:
Between 2001 and 2004, divorces among active-duty Army officers and enlisted personnel nearly doubled, from 5,658 to 10,477, even though total troop strength remained stable. In 2002, the divorce rate among married officers was 1.9 percent — 1,060 divorces out of 54,542 marriages; by 2004, the rate had tripled to 6 percent, with 3,325 divorces out of 55,550 marriages.
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