I just have no respect for people that would do something like this:
One sailor abandoned his family at Tokyo’s Narita airport. He collected the boarding passes for his wife and children before the gate and assured them he’d “be right back.” Two hours later, they realized he was gone, opting to change duty stations without them.
Another sailor told his wife he was going to sea, and she didn’t hear from him for three years. When her military identification expired and she started asking questions, she learned her husband had already served a complete stateside tour, and was re-stationed in Japan where he lived without her.
Then there’s the naval officer whose wife returned to Japan to visit her family. He wrote her a letter, telling her to send him her military identification card and stay in Japan. He’d ship her stuff to her — sayonara, sweetheart.
While abandonment occurs everywhere, overseas abandonment cases in Japan “tend to be more extreme,” Navy attorneys said. [Stars & Stripes]
To be fair though spouses have been known to do the same thing and abandon their families but either way divorce shouldn’t be handled in this way.
Read the rest of the Stars & Stripes article to learn how to get legal assistance to separate responsibly instead of abandoning your family at Narita Airport which I just found outrageous.
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11:24 am on July 14th, 2008 1
Disgusting cowardice!!!
12:42 pm on July 14th, 2008 2
Someone want to guess how many 2ID 2BDE soldiers went to Iraq and then to the U.S. and just left their wives here with no support? The wives often had kids, expired ID cards and visas, and no money for rent or getting home. The U.S. Army just turned a blind eye.
This happens all over the world. I know specifically of two that we know where the husbands are, but since they are not American and can’t prove their kids are, there’s nothing to be done. They don’t have the money or access to U.S. courts to sue, they can’t travel or ask for a paternity test. Nope, the U.S. scumbags are back safe and sound and can’t be touched. One even told his wife “Go ahead and try to come get me.”
One guy started sending money after being contacted, but no one else has because it can’t be enforced. Can’t anyone do something?
The recent stories in the paper are just more examples of the same.
2:23 pm on July 14th, 2008 3
What happened after 2BCT left is part of the reasoning why the new 2ID marriage policy was enacted because it was a disgrace how some of the soldiers left their families in Korea.
12:33 pm on July 21st, 2008 4
I hadn’t heard of a new policy in 2ID. What is it?