How to Pick an Army Bride
Seems the Army is wanting to give our soliders a bit of assistance in picking out their better half.
Army Teaches Troops How to Pick a Spouse
They are the Pentagon’s new “rules of engagement” – the diamond ring kind. U.S. Army chaplains are trying to teach troops how to pick the right spouse, through a program called “How To Avoid Marrying a Jerk.”
The matchmaking advice comes as military family life is being stressed by two tough wars. Defense Department records show more than 56,000 in the Army – active, National Guard and Reserve – have divorced since the campaign in Afghanistan started in 2001.
Officials partly blame long and repeated deployments which started after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and stretched the service thin.
Troops also are coming home with life-altering injuries.
Many come back better people, others worse-off – but either way, very changed from who they were when they wed.
“Being in the military certainly raises the stakes when you choose a mate,” said Lt. Col. Peter Frederich, head of family issues in the Pentagon’s chaplain office.
The “no jerks” program is also called “P.I.C.K. a Partner,” for Premarital Interpersonal Choices and Knowledge.
It advises the marriage-bound to study a partner’s F.A.C.E.S. – family background, attitudes, compatibility, experiences in previous relationships and skills they’d bring to the union.
Outside the Beltway has a post about this story here.
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1Greta (Hooah Wife)
wrote on 5 February 2006 at 9:13
Well it is about dang time. If the Army wanted you to have a spouse – they would have issued you one. I blame a lot of the divorces on couples marrying too young and having kids early on in their careers. When you look at divorce rates of the regular population – the Army is still lower in divorce rates!