are you serious? if/when my bf deploys (he's a marine) i will be the first person waiting. i wouldn't miss that for the world! let alone stupid softball!! i only get to see him every six months because he is in okinawa... and if he didn't pick me up at the airport after flying all that way to japan.. i'd kill him!!! and he would kill me if i did the same. thanks for what you do... soldier? marine? airman? sailor? etc..

to #83: you can't just resign because you want to avoid deployment. you are under strict contract of a certain number of years, depending on your branch. if you did that it was extremely dishonorable and their would be serious consequences laying ahead. the girlfriend didn't have to be with a military man if she didn't want to deal with the deployments and long distances. my relationship would never, ever work if i didn't support my marine 100% and if she was so against the military she would never have dated a service member in the first place.

NEXT PLEASE!!!! dude dont even bother continuing that relationship

To all you those razzing him, I hope the next time you come back from a long trip, your loved one is too busy to pick you up!!!!!

Um, as the original #11, I think people misunderstood what I was saying. ...Someone had made a comment insinuating that OP was selfish for not "putting off" his deployment, and I was calling THAT poster ridiculous for thinking you could "put off" your deployment like you can "put off" a softball game. Hope that clears things up a bit.

Okay.. To all of you that told him to stop being a baby about this seriously don't know what you're talking about. Out of all the deployments that my brothers and fiance have gone through there wasn't one time that their girlfriends at the time couldn't make it to get there from the airport. If this had happened to any of them they would be just as pissed. The deployments may make it hard for the girl left at home but it's twice as hard if not more for the person on the actual deployment and all he wanted was for someone he cared about to come see him at the airport.

Well, at least she told you the truth; there probably were soft balls involved.

Having been through this situation myself will state that when you get back from a deployment, even if it is 6 months long, you always want to see your loved ones soon as you get back. If you don't, you will be around those who have theirs around them and it will drive you into the ground with sadness. Could understand if the girlfriend was across the country like mine was at the time but if they are there in the area? Really no excuse for it least it was completely necessary. And yes, being in a military relationship is harder than other types. Unless you have been in the situtation yourself than don't assume that you know how it works.

#89 SERIOUSLY! I can't believe people don't think that what she did is a big deal. He was in a foreign country without any loved ones! Do you know how hard that is even for a big, tough (I have found most actually have feelings..) military man? If you are in a relationship with a military man/woman you MUST make sacrifices, LOTS OF THEM. You sacrifice a physical relationship. You become the 5th wheel on nights out with your friends and their significant others because your baby is thousands of miles away. You lose sleep waiting up late for the long distance call that will make even your worst day so much better. You go without all the fancy things you may want so you can save your money for months so you can fly half-way around the world to visit him while he is stationed overseas. MAYBE you risk pissing off your stupid softball team by going to see your brave boyfriend come home from WAR. I can't even think of anything rational that would keep me from welcoming home my Marine. I hope this guy dumped that selfish girl.

Thank you for your service!! You and everyone else over there are more brave than I can imagine.