I think I misspoke
I meant the spouses stateside
the service people oversea hear about they`re spouse cutting them loose.
I think the term is dear john.
I don`t do this,but I do know guys who are very predatory to service wives and girlfriends.
I served on a Destroyer.
300 men on a ship 400 feet long.
30 slept in my compartment , those "dear John" letters arrived for us at a rate of one a month.
But at least at that time we had no pregnancy on board.
At this time every Navy ship looses a sailor to pregnacy on every cruse , large ships loose several.
Integrateing women into the Navy is a great secret failure , although women are doing jobs as Sailors early as well as men , they are a barely bearable strain on the already highly stressed culture.
But itis the end of a Captains carreer to say so , wise military men are not free with their thoughts.