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winnie
Joined: 08 May 2005
Location: the forest
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 Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 11:28 pm Post subject: Ladies: Would you or have you dated a GI? |
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| If you have, what have been your experiences? Or if you wouldn't.... please tell why....... |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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| I've dated a couple and it's an odd question. Being a GI is their job, same as teaching is mine- it doesn't define who they are. |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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I went out with a female GI for a short while. She was cool and after meeting her friends I came away with a better impression of GIs that I'd had before. There's a lot of reasons to be in the army, and there are a lot of GIs who aren't flag-waving Republicans (of course there are probably more who are).
Its pretty low, but its cool to date a GI just to get in on the all the perks they have. Oh, the taco bell, the spaghettios, the American TV, the American electrical outlets, riding along grass-lined streets in a Jeep Grand Cherokee.
She and I were never particularly serious or deep, so everything was cool between us when we kinda drifted apart. But there is a big problem in that their lifestyle is so different from mine. They speak in this acronym-filled jargon that makes your head spin. it seems like everything has a acronym for it in the army. And they were all younger than my by like 3 years. Which isn't a lot, but it shows sometimes. and there's just the general sense that their lives are headed in a totally different place than mine (neither better or worse, just different).
i should say that i'm american, so there was a lot about her personality that was really familar to me. i guess you should keep that in mind if your not american.
probably not the info you were hoping for, and its all generalized, but thats all i know. |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 1:08 am Post subject: |
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| Yes. Stick to officers. Watch out for the MBAs. |
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jayjayjay
Joined: 27 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 1:59 am Post subject: |
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| billybrobby wrote: |
| Oh, the taco bell |
Did you say Taco Bell? As in burrito supremes...and chulupas...and nachos with real jalepenos? Umm, and just exactly where do these female GIs hang out? |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:13 am Post subject: |
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[quote="crazylemongirl"]Yes. Stick to officers. Watch out for the MBAs.[/quote
I'll second that. I have a lot more in common with them. And although I'm pretty anti-military, I've found that the GIs I have dated don't take their work home with them. |
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periwinkle
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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What's an MBA?
I always wanted to date an officer. Sigh~ think Richard Gere in "An Officer and a Gentleman"... GOD, he was FINE. Or Tom Cruise in "Top Gun"... Seems to me they're all taken, though. The downside, though, is that they get deployed. My uncle was a commander of a submarine, he would be away from home 6 months at a time. He and my aunt divorced. She had several guys that helped ease her loneliness... |
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periwinkle
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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| I got it!!!!!!!! Married but available! |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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You had access to the PX and walked past the Miracle Whip to get to the spaghettios? I have to question your sanity. |
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canuckistan
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Joined: 17 Jun 2003
Location: Training future GS competitors.....
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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Great memories of Korea for me. Not only met and dated Captain Awesome, we got married in Seoul too 
...the adventure continues! |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
You had access to the PX and walked past the Miracle Whip to get to the spaghettios? I have to question your sanity. |
miracle whip? ewww. i can't eat that stuff ever since i tried to make tuna and macaroni with it. disaster.
and why did you change my brilliant quote in your sig?? oh, well, it was a good run. thanks man.
i question my own sanity for not stocking up on cheap beer and camel cigarettes.
and yes, jay, there is a taco bell in yongsan army base. believe it. where do you meet GIs? itaewon, of course. |
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winnie
Joined: 08 May 2005
Location: the forest
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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Ok a couple more questions......
Why an officer? More educated, what's the difference?
How do you know if he is married, don't you just have to take his word for it being here? Obviously these types won't be wearing a ring...and can easily lie...what are some ways to know? |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| winnie wrote: |
Ok a couple more questions......
Why an officer? More educated, what's the difference?
How do you know if he is married, don't you just have to take his word for it being here? Obviously these types won't be wearing a ring...and can easily lie...what are some ways to know? |
An officer wears his stripes on his sleave (that's the one you want), whereas an enlisted man wears his on his shoulder and goes by the rank of Lieutenant, Captain, or Major (avoid them!). You want one who goes by the rank of "Sergeant". They're really intelligent fellows and have very broad intellects. Go army over air force, as the former tend to be much more rounded persons. Also, go for the ones with shorter hair, unless their black, in which case you want the ones with compressed fros. If you're into the under-30 crowd you'll want an infantryman; if 35+ suits you get a supplyman.
So head into Hongdae Friday night and let me know if this advice helps find you the man of your dreams. It sounds like you're steering yourself in the right direction to find the man of your dreams. You go girl! |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Oh, and if you want to increase the odds that they're not really married go younger. You'd be surprised how mature and considerate younger soldiers can be, and very few under 23 will be in the army because they're running away from their family. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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I lived near Camp Yongin, and my evenings hanging out with GIs never amounted to much other than a few flings and some great stories about a guy who got repeatedly fired and rehired at a Pizza Hut in Nevada, and his justification for stabbing his boss.
The guys there tended to be very young (for my tastes) and not too educated. They had a lovely wide-eyed innocence to them when they found their way off the base; to be a female in their presence is to understand the meaning of *gratitude*. They were very conscious of rank and the pecking order among them was enforced, sometimes with boots applied to heads.
It's a hard hard life they live, cooped up together. Most of them are very depressed and angry. Those that aren't probably should be. |
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