Army Wife Chat
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I am dating someone who is a Sgt. in the Army. I have a couple of questions because I am having a hard time understanding what he is saying at times. He is in Iraq right now. He wants me to pay for a phone to be hooked up throught TS2 and a website with instructions on how to do so..make a long story short, the website that his commander gave him is a scam. Second issue…He applied for leave. Now he is saying that he needs to purchase a Liberty pass? He said it is very costly $3500 USD in order for him to take leave. I have never heard of this before. Can anyone please answer these questions for me please.
He is trying to scam you. Soldiers do not have to pay to return home for leave from a deployment.
Is there any way to find out if he is really in the service?
Ask him to email you from his AKO email account. It will end in @us.army.mil. All soldiers have one.
I asked him this morning to send me an email using his AKO account and he said he can’t do that because of his indentity. He said that it is anot allowed. Thank you Stacey for your help. He is asking for my passwords and log in for my email account to make sure I am not talking with any other man. The guy is blowing smoke up my butt. Thanks for the learning experience!
Well I see that this is about a month old, but I hope that you took the previous contributors advice. You can set up free webcam and phone on Yahoo!, soldiers do not pay out of pocket for mid-tour leave, all army, government, and contractors of the govt have ako addresses. family members even have ako e-mail accounts as long as they are sponsored by their family member. He is a sleaze!!! Run now! A man should not be asking YOU to come out of your pocket for anything for him.
Hi I just want to say that although it may be the wonderful men and women keeping this country safe, It is you the Spouse who keep us sane,, thank you so very much for your continued time and experience and devotion.
Very sweet – thank you!
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I’m an army wife myself and I am currently doing my dissertation on military families and relocation, I need all the help I can get. Thank you.
hey everyone. i am a fiance to a medic in the army. we plan on getting married next month. He leaves for afghanistan in feb for 12 months. ive never been with anyone in the army or have been through a deployment….i was just wondering if there are any good support groups out there to help me along the way.
Try armywifechat.com
hi ,i read the mail up in the boxes above and i met some one online saying he is in the army and he wants me to pay 4 him a liberty pass to come home on but i feel scared about doin so and he always emails me from his own websit but not a ako address and he said he will call me but when he does its always from a unavailable number he emailed me 3 diffrent forms to fill out and welltheir suppose to be from his gen. but the websites just sound so strange can some one tell me what i should do befor i get scamed out of $1,200usd please thank you so much .
My husband just left for basic, and I am anxiously waiting for a letter. How long does the letter-sending process take? He has been gone for a week now and I’m hoping I’ll get a letter soon. I can’t wait to hear from him! Hopefully you can fill me in on the missing-him, loneliness, and angst! Thanks.
Sherry,
Do not give him any money for a liberty pass or a phone or anything. He is scamming you. I had the same thing happen to me…It does not cost them anything to call or to come home..If they are in Iraq the government pays for the leave…not you.
Hiya, this is my first time in a chat. So I am currently in a desperate state. If anyone can help me, I am in need of advice. I am married to a station in Germany unfaithful and ambiguous active service member (I have been married for 4 years). We are separated since AUG 2010 and I am living in P.R. since Oct. 2010 with our 4 year old son. I want a divorce but he doesn’t want to because he is using the BAH to pay his credit debt. He only sends me $700 monthly from his BAH and I am un-employed and looking for a job. I don’t know what to do. I don’t know whom to ask for help being so far away from the base. The only thing I have is my ID CARD, internet and a whole lot of debt. I don’t know exactly where he is because he told me he moved from the base. I try to contact him through e-mail and he never answers back.Thanks for any help you might provide me.
P.S. This situation really hurts a lot because he totally changed with me and my son after his first deployment in Iraq.
Stacey,
I have been scammed for US1,200- who I have met online over 4 months. I was told to sent to a Turkey account different name by Western Union,while he himself is serving in Iraq, It would be great I read the above message.
FYI, I was asked to sent to “Military Private Forward “in a US address which cost US60- to re forward the gift to him. Then he was in a mission for over 2 weeks out of touch. During the time, somehow, his relative contact me to keep me busy. It was playing on emotion side. After that he was sick and need the money and so on. I am suspected it is a scam along the way, however,I am also worry what if he is telling the truth. Anyway the money was gone. It is a learning lesson for me. For other would be some information. As I myself is not from US , I do not understand how the army work. Good luck to other Army ‘s relatives and love one.
Hi I have a question. I’m dating a soldier over on Iraq and he was suppost to leave about 3 days ago but his flight keeps getting cancelled. I understand that he is under a lot of stress but I have never dated a guy in any military branch so sometimes we have fights and i don’t know how to exactly react. He starts fights about ,to me nothing serious but to him its a huge deal. I love him soo much and really hate fighting with him. For example he got mad because I didn’t tell him every detail of a story and it had nothing to do with me. I don’t know if this is normal or not.
hello i have a question my husband is in the army . we recently got married and we have a daughter together. hes been very violent in the past and when he called me from bct he was extremely rude. i was really hurt. im thinking of filing for a divorce. what should i do? what will happen to my daughter who will have custody? can they look threw my personal things?
Hi, my boyfriend and I have just become engaged and he has just come back for his 15 days after boot camp. I am very uneducated about all of this and I would like to know a few things. When he is deployed is there a way for me to live on his base so that when he comes home I will be there? Also how do I go about getting his address and stuff to send him letters?
I have been writting to a guy in Iraq for several very long months. We have gotton to know each other very well, so well that he sends me love letters, He sent me pictures of his family and I sent the same to him. He wants us to be a family when he comes home, my son, me and him. He writes to me through yahoo messeger every day as well as letters 2 sometimes 3x a day and when we are chatting online it is usally for 2 hours. It is at midnight his time. He tells me how much he loves me and how much I mean to him. He cant wait to come home and he is suppose to be home in Jan but I would love for him to come home before that as a suprise. How can I raise the money to do that? I have checked out the sites where wifes have gotton together and raised money to bring their husbands home I would like to join in on this and do the same and suprise him with a visit home.
Michelle
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This is a new post – new topic- I am new to this website and am not sure to join/start a new topic. I posted on an older chat topic but think it more relevantly should be posted here.
I was recently divorced from a man who had been in the Army in the mid 80s to early 90s. He was in about 7 years, maybe more, but certainly not as many as 10.
He received a medical discharge and (per him) opted for VA disability instead of military retirement pension. That did not sound altogether rignt but I am not familiar enough with military pension to know for sure.
We were together almost 8 years and about 2 years ago he started abusing Rx drugs (and everything that went along with that).
He seemed to be reliving his “glory” days of military service and got very involved in fringe military organizations. (Veterans’ groups, ex paratrooper groups).
He started doing weird things, he put together a current uniform and wore it out to dinner on July 4. Most people don’t know at a glance how to spot a fake uniform so everyone just “thanked him for his service”. Don’t get me wrong – he did serve, just not recently. He definitely deserves the respect of a veteran.
Then he started signing emails, etc. Staff Sergeant, Retired. and his phone voice mail was…This is Staff Sergeant…He gifted me with an “Army Wife” hat even though he had been out of the Army for over a decade when we got married.
It all got too weird to me and for so many reasons we divorced. It has continued to bug me though…is it appropriate for him to identify as “retired” and use his rank at time of discharge? Is it appropriate for him to wear a uniform?
I think he may be suffering from some mental disorder but I just don’t know. He claimed he was going to get psych treatment at our local VA Hospital but I don’t think he went through with it. As far as I can tell from our limited contact now, he has toned down the drug use but his new divorced life is very military oriented. All his facebook pictures have him in uniform, etc.
This is troubling to me and I am not sure where else to pose these questions.
Thank you all for your time and your on-going sacrifice.
Hi I’m care. I’m 16 and engaged to a wonderful man I met 3 years ago. He’s planning on going into the marines next year. I was wondering if as his fiancé I would be allowed to live with him while he’s in the marine and if not how to go about the wedding? We’ve tried talking to his recruitment officer about this but he avoids the questions and I honestly think that even he doesn’t know. So I figured id turn to the help of fellow marine wives or fiancé’s who have been through this.
Hello, everyone! My husband served 6 years in the Coast Guard. We decided to move home to raise our girls and be close to our parents. Well I tried to tell him it would be hard but he didn’t believe me so now he is getting back into the Military. He has decided to join the Army but the only way he can is to join the special forces. I am very excited about his decision I love being a military wife . I am just wondering if any of you have spouses in the special forces? How is it? I keep hearing mixed reviews the recruiters say they are not gone for to long they go and get the job done and come back maybe like 3 months then home for a few then back out does that seem right? Also will I know when he is deploying and coming back?I’m really excited to live on an actual base. Do any of you live on Fort Brag? I guess that is where we will be going first for 50 or so weeks after he is done with training. I really can’t wait to meet new friends and see new places I have missed it so much. Won’t miss the DH being gone allot again but there is nothing in the civilian world anymore as in jobs. Sorry so long and so many question.
Thanks for your help…
Jennifer
Hi, i got to know US Army from OPSEC division who is now deploy in Iraq. He sent me some of his photos while he’s on duty in Iraq. But he told me to send e-mail to phonesubscriptiondesk777@usa.com in order to connect to him. When i received reply from the e-mail address, it says that i have to transfer US$150 via Western Union in order to connect to him or for him to connect to me. Is this true? Is there such thing that i need to pay certain amount thou it’s not that hugh but i feel something is not right.
This is a scam.
No, you must be married to live on post. If he’s granted permission to live off post, you could possibly live with him then but it’s unlikely he’ll be granted that permission as a new enlisted Marine.
I’m new! Not sure how to use this site! But it sure would be nice if i had someone to talk me through this time! He leaves in 2 days.
Hello,
My name is LiliAna,
I married my soldier in September of this year with me being 19 and him 20. He is about to be stationed at Camp Shelby, Ms and I fully intend on moving down to be with him. My question is this, Does anybody connected to this website already live in that area? All of my family and all the people I know and love are in Ohio (Our home state) and it would be so much easier of a move by getting in contact with other Army/Military ASAP.
Tini hi I was told the same thing from my man who is serving over seas that in order for me to talk with him I need to fill out an application and it would be sent to him for approval and that it would be a small fee. I wonder if this may be the same man will you tell me his name. Thanks
Im engaged to a 19 year old Im 18 and he is in the airforce. He is currently in teach school at the moment. He had to talke a big test yesterday but he failed it. Now he is completly stressed out. I dont know what to do. Im crying because Im not theire with him. His reccrutier said he can take it again but if he fails it again he has to go infront of some big shot guy inchage of the airforce. They could kick him about because he failed the test again. Now my fiancia is all stressed out and so am I. He had a panick attack today because all he did was study the material again which he all ready knew. He has test anxicitoy. I need help I need information. Is theire some kind of phone. Any information would be wonderful.
so, I need some advice from the army wives. I have found the love of my life, I never believed in the saying “when you know, you know” until I met my boyfriend. My dad was in the army when I was little so I kind of understand how it feels when your soldier has to leave but I never thought I would be in love one, I guess you do marry a guy just like your father lol
well my boyfriend is leaving in jan for basics. and although I know he will be safe, how do you cope with them being gone so long?
ADVICE IS MUCH NEEDED!
thank you!
I am now an Army Fiancee. My soldier is currently going through AIT and will graduate that in May, which is when we are planning to get married. He does not have orders yet. I have a teaching license in TN and I am wondering what sort of process would I have to go through to be able to teach wherever we end up. If it is in the states, I’m assuming I could just take the PRAXIS test for licensure in whatever state, and go from there. But what if it’s overseas? Could I teach at a school on the base? How does all that work? I am willing to look for other kinds of work if I have to, but since I have a lot of teaching experience now, I thought I would start there. Anyone a teacher? Any thoughts?