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You need to move on.
She's not into you.
If she was, she wouldn't be joining the military, she'd stay with you or at least make decisions together.
I know it hurts, be brave.
sayyy-gaa
While she may not want to be with the TC anymore, fact of the matter is people need to make money and pay for college one way or another. Her way to pay for college just happens to be joining the National Guard instead of taking out a bunch of student loans she will be paying back for years after she graduates.
Besides, National Guard is only one weekend of training a month anyway. That means after her nine months of training (which she wll get a two and a half week break for Christmas from) she will be back at home in college and only out of town for training and deployments.
You make deployment sound like no big deal...that is HUGE!
A deployment as a woman working in the Signal Corps isn't going to be nearly as stressful as a deployment as an infantryman 90% of the time. Been in Iraq three times and I remember the people who would be there for a year and only left base twice; once to go on R&R and again to end the deployment. All while playing videogames and working out in the gym half of the time.
Besides, Iraq is over, Afghanistan will most likely be over in the next two years, and the National Guard doesn't deploy as often as active duty. Plus, if his girlfriend got the College First option in her contract (don't know if they're still doing it, they were a few years ago but they may have stopped) she's guaranteed not to deploy for two years while in college unless she flunks her classes.
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