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Originally Posted by Buffalobob
You really do not need the distraction of a wedding during selection and anyone who has been involved in a long wedding planning exercise will tell you that the questions such as silverware, china, exact words of the ceremony etc cannot be handled without your participation and the problem is no matter how tactful you are by phone or email when you choose the flaming yellow and orange tuxedo, there is going to be nuclear warheads launched. All of this is going on when your thought process should be on how many quarts of fluid have you taken in and expended today and how are you going to pass the land nav when you were up all last night with your darling sweetie discussing whether to have the lobster newburg or the braised chicken.
Your only saving grace is that they take all of your electronic gizmos away from you so sweetie pie honey bunch's mother, the dragon of hell, will be calling the first sergeant wanting to know why you are not answering your phone calls.
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I should take a stick and beat you with if for reminding me of all those painful conversations when I was trying to take final exams so I could graduate with an engineering degree from Alabama.
I do believe, now that I have more life experiences, that redleg danger close is preferable to wedding planning or perhaps they are the same thing. 
So 36+ years later, here I sit retired with my wife still working and I have made a meatloaf to bake for our dinner tonight (if she comes home in time) and will zap a couple of potatoes and some green beans. |
Thank you for the advise. However, the most disturbing part of this message is the part where you graduate from Alabama
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Its tough to make a life changing decision between a career I will love and a women I love. Choosing may be too hard of a word here but I feel as though I may be trying to reinvent the wheel with a Christmas wedding during selection. I would truly never let myself get over standing before the board at selection explaining to them why I performed inadequately periodically through selection because I was worried about a wedding. HOWEVER, I had my 18x contract well before my fiance came a long. She knows, to the best of her understanding, what she is getting into. She is a very independent women who will be living with her mother after she graduates from Auburn this May. She has spend a good deal of time learning about my career choice and what goes into making a soldier. I truly believe she wants this tab as much as I do. As far as not getting married in December. I would still have at least a year of training. I assumed after the wedding I would have time to make the transition to a married man and get her up to Ft. Bragg over a period of time.
She has also waited to apply for jobs until she knows where I will be and when she will be able to move to get a job in the area. I'm trying my best to make this work. Hope it does...I love them both.