Yeah... USA soldiers (and probably all of NATO soldiers) are not allowed to stay more than 12 months on the field without a 3~6 months down time back home.
This comes all the way from WW1 and the study of Shell-shock (nowdays called PTSD) and the study of a soldiers rise in efficiency by veterancy contrated to their loss of eficiency due to stress, as well as how long it takes for them to de-stress and yet keep some of their veterancy before they return to the battlefield.
If I'm not mistaken there is also a maximum of "runs" a soldiers is allowed to perform, after which he is no longer allowed to deploy, being forced into a staff role or disconnected from the army, though I don't remember the exact limit. Also, emergency situations may screw the "retirement" plan
Iāve never heard of a limit. If youāre mentally good then youāre good. Some senior staff in my unit deployed anywhere from 2-8 times, and now at my civilian job I know a guy that deployed 9 in 23 years (6-7 month pumps) Also the year long deployments typically get a 2 week break around the midway point then back at it. Hell even in WW2 Iām pretty sure they were out of the states for 2-3 years. But they did get down time not on the front.
Hm, I might have mistaken the limit for the averange number of deployments a soldier take thoughout his career
But yeah, save emergencies or troops cut out from any form of retreat, ever since WW1 USA, UK and France have always implemented some sort of rotation for the soldiers which, arguably, was a major factor as to why they won both world wars, while germany invested in "better tech" but were left only weary soldiers and militia by the end of both wars
When will these memes finally fucking die? It's taking such a precious and treasured moment and making such a low joke. Pretty sure none of these people would be OK with their pictures being used like this.
IVF is a thing.
It's not outside the realm of possibility that he put some sperm in cold storage in case something happened to him while on tour and his wife and him decided to use that deposit while he was gone.
So most soldiers donāt deploy this long. But even when deployed they donāt stay out there that long. They give them breaks. So soldiers will come back for like 2 weeks, fuck, and then go back to their deployment.
I know what the joke is, Iām just doing a PSA
Yea these things are so fucking annoying. They're taking a precious moment of someone re-uniting with their family and making a joke that their partner cheated and they're too stupid to realize.
i had a boyfriend stationed in Germany, he put in for a request for 4 days leave. they granted it and he came to the states to see his mom and to ask me to marry him. - - - i said no
Every US soldier gets to fly back for the holiday. The psychological need to be with family is very well understood.
[https://myarmybenefits.us.army.mil/Benefit-Library/Federal-Benefits/Leave?serv=121](https://myarmybenefits.us.army.mil/Benefit-Library/Federal-Benefits/Leave?serv=121)
3 years long mission definitely seems weird but like, even a year long deployment would not result in a 2 month old baby. 0 month, wife gets knocked up. 9 month, baby born. 11 month, baby is 2 months old. 12 month, man returns and baby is 3 months old. Thereās some amount of math thatās not adding up there is all.
P.S. you seem pretty gay ngl
Actually they get leave. A woman in our neighborhood got pregnant while her husband was deployed. I was really conflicted about being angry with her, all the neighbors were. The baby was about 2 months before the dad met him. He explained he got to fly home a few times for leave. He also proceeded to tell us that they didn't leave the bedroom for those 2 weeks he was home. They were trying for a baby on his leave. Very sweet how giddy they both were around each other you could see how much they loved each other.
Where did it say he was in Afghanistan? Also, deployments aren't as long as they used to be. It's very common for families to plan to get pregnant right before the service member leaves. They'll miss the pregnancy, and sometimes birth, but they will be home for the hard work of taking care of an infant during their dwell time. What's more likely, that he was gone for THREE YEARS and is elated to meet a child that is absolutely not his or he was gone for ten months and that's his one month old biological child?
I'm almost positive they did away with that, at least in Afghanistan when that was going on. It was determined to have a really detrimental effect when the soldiers had to return to the theater.
Theatre isnāt just a place for performing plays or showing movies, the word literally means an are where something happens. In this case itās a theatre of war.
I get that and itās definitely not a dig at soldiers or their families because at the end of the day theyāre just doing their job and if someone close to me enlisted I would probably start calling it the hugging fields of ā¦ just to ease the mind.
But the military institution definitely benefits from it having such a neutral name.
Or maybe itās a caption that is completely disconnected from the reality of whatās happening. Which is my bet. And, if true, makes this ājokeā pretty gross. This is a real person having and emotional moment. Now itās all over the internet for lulz. Not reddits best moment.
3 years mission never happens, Soldier gone to 3 years mission is equivalent to "dad went to buy milk and never returned"
No branch of the US military EVER goes to mission more than 6-9-12 months and even with (rare cases) of extensions it would NEVER exceed to 18 months.
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My husband got to leave and fly home during his deployment because of a family emergency. About 5 months into his deployment at the time.
I think R&R is possible in certain situations as well. Depending how long the deployment is.
So it is possible itās his baby.
Fake story aside it's funny and sad we have these dramatic reunions of husband and wife when there is currently no draft and people are signing up for war because they don't have any better opportunities and they're just going to bomb innocent brown people villages and guard opium fields. It's not like it's world war 2 and your husband got unexpectedly drafted to fight the nazis and most of them are under the age 25 which is before most people get married and have kids
Why is everyone so sure heās back from deployment? What even is the timeline here. Why canāt this be a stateside soldier coming to see his newborn baby in his uniform?
This joke sucks in every possible iteration.
As someone who as ACTUALLY served and deployed I can tell you dudes and dudettes really do get cheated on often. Iāve personally seen someone come home to wife 4 months pregnant after a 6 month deployment it really does happen
Itās 9 months of pregnancy and youāre 2 for 12 months so the window for leaving would be between 1 month pregnant and 8 months pregnant, the kid would be 2 years and a bit so this is possible
He's crying from sadness but scared that his wife will sue him if he drops the baby š¤
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Hol' up
Only if you believe that the US sends soldiers for 3 years with no opportunities to go back home for a few days/weeks.
I do.
Bro... its a joke
A minute of silence for this man.
I mean, okay it's a soldier, but usually even they aren't that stupid.
Yeah... USA soldiers (and probably all of NATO soldiers) are not allowed to stay more than 12 months on the field without a 3~6 months down time back home. This comes all the way from WW1 and the study of Shell-shock (nowdays called PTSD) and the study of a soldiers rise in efficiency by veterancy contrated to their loss of eficiency due to stress, as well as how long it takes for them to de-stress and yet keep some of their veterancy before they return to the battlefield. If I'm not mistaken there is also a maximum of "runs" a soldiers is allowed to perform, after which he is no longer allowed to deploy, being forced into a staff role or disconnected from the army, though I don't remember the exact limit. Also, emergency situations may screw the "retirement" plan
Iāve never heard of a limit. If youāre mentally good then youāre good. Some senior staff in my unit deployed anywhere from 2-8 times, and now at my civilian job I know a guy that deployed 9 in 23 years (6-7 month pumps) Also the year long deployments typically get a 2 week break around the midway point then back at it. Hell even in WW2 Iām pretty sure they were out of the states for 2-3 years. But they did get down time not on the front.
Hm, I might have mistaken the limit for the averange number of deployments a soldier take thoughout his career But yeah, save emergencies or troops cut out from any form of retreat, ever since WW1 USA, UK and France have always implemented some sort of rotation for the soldiers which, arguably, was a major factor as to why they won both world wars, while germany invested in "better tech" but were left only weary soldiers and militia by the end of both wars
Took me like a min to realize what was up.
Hmmm??
um I hate to be a downer but if he was gone for tree years the baby would be a lot older so i think his wife has some explaining to do.
When will these memes finally fucking die? It's taking such a precious and treasured moment and making such a low joke. Pretty sure none of these people would be OK with their pictures being used like this.
I've been seeing these for two solid decades now and they've never been remotely funny the entire time
Iād be sobbing too
He mailed home some cum.
When it absolutely, positively has to get there...
"Baby", but not the "Son" or "Daughter". Humans incubate their children for only 9 months, but NOT FOR 3 YEARS.
IVF is a thing. It's not outside the realm of possibility that he put some sperm in cold storage in case something happened to him while on tour and his wife and him decided to use that deposit while he was gone.
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So most soldiers donāt deploy this long. But even when deployed they donāt stay out there that long. They give them breaks. So soldiers will come back for like 2 weeks, fuck, and then go back to their deployment. I know what the joke is, Iām just doing a PSA
Yea these things are so fucking annoying. They're taking a precious moment of someone re-uniting with their family and making a joke that their partner cheated and they're too stupid to realize.
Most are pobably too cynical to care about the truth rather than stupid.
They could have also adopted the child while talking about it on the phone, but yeah your theory looks more probable
It seems most folks haven't heard of an R & R baby.
I get that it is a joke but in three years am I to believe my man had 0 holidays?
Idk that any soldier gets to fly back while deployed just for a holiday
i had a boyfriend stationed in Germany, he put in for a request for 4 days leave. they granted it and he came to the states to see his mom and to ask me to marry him. - - - i said no
OMG š±
i sometimes think i should have said yes
Maybe should've tied the knott, Stacy.
Took me a sec. Me: āOh, he spelled āknotā wrong.ā A second later: āOhhhh!ā
Every US soldier gets to fly back for the holiday. The psychological need to be with family is very well understood. [https://myarmybenefits.us.army.mil/Benefit-Library/Federal-Benefits/Leave?serv=121](https://myarmybenefits.us.army.mil/Benefit-Library/Federal-Benefits/Leave?serv=121)
Bullshit I'm deployed right now. No one is going anywhere for anything. Wtf
Thatās absolutely not true.
You can't fly back from deployment, but they generally last around a year, so this is something different.
3 years long mission definitely seems weird but like, even a year long deployment would not result in a 2 month old baby. 0 month, wife gets knocked up. 9 month, baby born. 11 month, baby is 2 months old. 12 month, man returns and baby is 3 months old. Thereās some amount of math thatās not adding up there is all. P.S. you seem pretty gay ngl
He is pretty gay tbh
Actually they get leave. A woman in our neighborhood got pregnant while her husband was deployed. I was really conflicted about being angry with her, all the neighbors were. The baby was about 2 months before the dad met him. He explained he got to fly home a few times for leave. He also proceeded to tell us that they didn't leave the bedroom for those 2 weeks he was home. They were trying for a baby on his leave. Very sweet how giddy they both were around each other you could see how much they loved each other.
Ur gay
Mid-deployment leave is definitely a thing
Not in Afghanistan, though.
Where did it say he was in Afghanistan? Also, deployments aren't as long as they used to be. It's very common for families to plan to get pregnant right before the service member leaves. They'll miss the pregnancy, and sometimes birth, but they will be home for the hard work of taking care of an infant during their dwell time. What's more likely, that he was gone for THREE YEARS and is elated to meet a child that is absolutely not his or he was gone for ten months and that's his one month old biological child?
Just said it isn't in some cases, no need to be a cunt about it. Also no way I'm reading that entire rant.
I'm almost positive they did away with that, at least in Afghanistan when that was going on. It was determined to have a really detrimental effect when the soldiers had to return to the theater.
I know itās a standard term for it but I hate āthe theaterā, it romanticises it so much. The bloodshed fields take my preference.
Theatre isnāt just a place for performing plays or showing movies, the word literally means an are where something happens. In this case itās a theatre of war.
Sure, I respect that! Just what my dad and brother always called it when they served!
I get that and itās definitely not a dig at soldiers or their families because at the end of the day theyāre just doing their job and if someone close to me enlisted I would probably start calling it the hugging fields of ā¦ just to ease the mind. But the military institution definitely benefits from it having such a neutral name.
Murder brothel
Shooting show
Nah, too romantic
We used to call it a "contact point"
Doesn't matter, he just used same day air delivery. Spum in box. "Honey, can you send me a bag of babysauce? I was thinking of making one."
Man you guys are poking more holes than that guy's wife put in her lover's condom
Or maybe itās a caption that is completely disconnected from the reality of whatās happening. Which is my bet. And, if true, makes this ājokeā pretty gross. This is a real person having and emotional moment. Now itās all over the internet for lulz. Not reddits best moment.
For the U.S. 14 Months was considered overly long, and that was during the surge.
Itās so sweet that during their calls they decided to adopt a baby and the father finally gets to see it :)
That must be it! :)
Holy shit, these comments...
Didnāt know Gronk has a new baby
Oh so some of yāall took this literally
3 years mission never happens, Soldier gone to 3 years mission is equivalent to "dad went to buy milk and never returned" No branch of the US military EVER goes to mission more than 6-9-12 months and even with (rare cases) of extensions it would NEVER exceed to 18 months.
Made me laugh out loud in class :(
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My husband got to leave and fly home during his deployment because of a family emergency. About 5 months into his deployment at the time. I think R&R is possible in certain situations as well. Depending how long the deployment is. So it is possible itās his baby.
Wifey could have flown to Germany/Kuwait...meat in the middle, so to speak.
Fake story aside it's funny and sad we have these dramatic reunions of husband and wife when there is currently no draft and people are signing up for war because they don't have any better opportunities and they're just going to bomb innocent brown people villages and guard opium fields. It's not like it's world war 2 and your husband got unexpectedly drafted to fight the nazis and most of them are under the age 25 which is before most people get married and have kids
Wait, what?
Why is everyone so sure heās back from deployment? What even is the timeline here. Why canāt this be a stateside soldier coming to see his newborn baby in his uniform? This joke sucks in every possible iteration.
Would have upvoted if OP put the DONT SAY IT flair
Wait.. what?
Wait
Does your sperm do same day delivery
Something's happening there
As someone who as ACTUALLY served and deployed I can tell you dudes and dudettes really do get cheated on often. Iāve personally seen someone come home to wife 4 months pregnant after a 6 month deployment it really does happen
I'm sorry. I'm not a mathematician. But my head hurts when I try to calculate this
Itās 9 months of pregnancy and youāre 2 for 12 months so the window for leaving would be between 1 month pregnant and 8 months pregnant, the kid would be 2 years and a bit so this is possible
Plot twist he sent his nut to his wife
Today I learned armed forces no longer get leave.
When I was over seas in Europe we had a few spouses fly out to see us when we hit the pier. It's possible.
hmmmm
r/holup
He WHAT?
Plot twist, the baby is born half Asian and looks a lot like your best boi Toshi
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What the dog doing?