even people in jail get to see their loved ones more often than soldiers who are deployed. Am I the only one who thinks that is fucked up?!
-anonymous
Source: http://truemilitarywivesconfessions.com/

What are your thoughts on this? :thinking

she has a point
:depressed

:dunno

She's right...

But I'll take 7 months of seperation over conjugal visits for 20 years, any day.

:dunno

She's right...

But I'll take 7 months of seperation over conjugal visits for 20 years, any day.

:agree

my bio mom is in prison and has been most of her adult life. I think she would rather be in the military than in the prison system, especially alabama's.

:dunno

She's right...

But I'll take 7 months of seperation over conjugal visits for 20 years, any day.

yup

:dunno

She's right...

But I'll take 7 months of seperation over conjugal visits for 20 years, any day.

yeah i agree

:dunno

She's right...

But I'll take 7 months of seperation over conjugal visits for 20 years, any day.

I agree!

Also, is she forgetting that after those deployments, they get to COME HOME? Granted, it may not be for long in between, but they are WITH YOU, I don't see that happening with inmates.

:dunno

She's right...

But I'll take 7 months of seperation over conjugal visits for 20 years, any day.

I have to say I agree with this... and prisoner's wives aren't recieving pay while their husband is in prison either...

In my opinion, prison and the military are two completely different organizations. The pros and cons of each can be similar, but in the end, those in the military are still there by choice, and with that choice comes some crappy things we as SOs have to deal with. At the same time, those in prison made a choice that landed them there, and they have some things to deal with as well. As for who has it better or worse, who knows? Who will ever know? Will the inmate know what a soldier goes through every day? Probably not, unless he's been there. Will a soldier know what an inmate goes through? again, probably not. Either way, we can be proud because our hubby/fiance/boyfriend is doing something honorable, and good, and is serving our country every single day of their lives.

I don't give a damn about criminals - they're lawbreakers and whatever they get is nothing compared to my freedom to go to the store wheneve I want, get on the computer, go outside WHENEVER I want and all that.
I can paint my house and wash my truck and paint it too!
I can wear whatever I want and buy myself as many plastic storage containers, shoes and clicky-pens as I want.
I can write my hubby 100 emails a day and use the bathroom whenever I decide it's convenient for me.
I can sleep with my bedroom door open and I can bend over the pick up the soap all I want.
I sleep in a nice, HUGE, super cozy bed with a real window - no bars! And while there are quite a few "Bubbas" who live in my town I dont' have to worry about running into any of them in the prison yard.

To compare our CHOICE to be in the military - knowing it would involve being seperated for annoyingly long lengths of time - is beyond imbalanced and shortsighted.

There's more to marriage, freedom, life and sex than how often you see eachother during a time of war and other military activity.

My husband's long deployments end - he comes home - and i have him until he has to go away again. He's respectable and can get any job he wants! He's not a lowlife loser Convict in a State Pen :biting

Okay at first glance it should get a rise out of all of us. But really use your head. Our men are gone for a considerable amount of time because they have to be. If thay got to come home on weekends so we could visit, nothing would get done, travel costs would be amazing, and casualties would be higher. I'd rather say goodbye for a while then have to deal with all of that. They are afterall on deployment for a reason and they have a job to do which they get paid for. They knew deployment was part of the job. Just like criminals know being locked up is part of the consequences of their actions. I think criminals should have visitations. If they have the option of parole then they should get to see their loved ones until they abuse that right. I think they should because seeing their loved ones can often be what keeps them human. It can also be leverage for negotiations.

Not all prisoners are 'lowlife losers'. Some make mistakes and pay dearly for their mistakes.
On that note - Being in the Military and being in prison/jail is NOT in ANYWAY a fair comparison. Military service is something to be proud of. It's Heroic. There is nothing proud or heroic about being in prison.


*** My husband was in the Navy for about 5 years. He also served 7 1/2 years in prison for a DUI. The ONLY thing good that came out of his prison time was his respect for the freedoms that we have. The good that came out from being in the Navy is Endless.

:dunno

She's right...

But I'll take 7 months of seperation over conjugal visits for 20 years, any day.

agreed

In my opinion, our prison system is horribly flawed and needs to be fixed desperately. The basic concept of the purpose of a prison needs to be answered. Is it to punish or is it to rehabilitate?
I will say that most people in prison have done something wrong to get there, but to to say they are all lowlifes is a bit of an exaggeration.
I also don't think you can really compare being in the military to being in prison.