Don't let this probably marine corps asshole bully you. Report his threats, get evidence!

Stay frosty

Would you be shot at the altar if you married her?

F the girl's life. That father has daughter issues? Seriously? Threatening for dating, threatening for backing up, just threatening for whatever because that is the main thing, not the dating/not dating or the happiness of the daughter. You did sensible or he would have been your father-in-law, family forever. Now you can avoid him or even get restraining order.

This is so normal in military families. I don't get why everyone's freaking out.

This shit pisses me off! Why do we as a society accept the idea that a father threatening a boyfriend is just protectiveness? If a girl was being threatened by her boyfriends father I have no doubt charges would be pressed and the police would become involved. A grown adult man, threatening to beat and take the life of a teenage boy. Sounds fairly psychotic to me!

You need to contact the police and get a restraining order.

I hope you explained all this to her.

Sorry to be that guy but it's time to narc on the father, that'll **** up his military career. He should've thought about that before being a tard.

The amount of people talking about how military families are usually like the GF's father as if it makes it right is alarming. Okay, so most of those people don't follow through. Let's say maybe 5% of them do. That's still an awful lot of people beating the shit out of teenagers for dating their kids. Also, there ARE families who follow through with it. I knew three guys in highschool who got the shit beat out of them by father's who were in either military or police service. One of the guys wasn't even dating the daughter- he was as uninterested in girls as someone can be. The girls dad still ended up breaking his arm and collar bone because SHE flirted with him and her dad went nuts over it. (Not that she knew that her dad was going to do that, if how horrified and upset she was in the weeks after was any indication.) So people telling OP to 'man up' are ignoring the fact that while there are people in the service who are fantastic people that only use violence as a last resort, there ARE bad seeds in the service, just like any other demographic. If OP doesn't want to risk their (ex)GF's father being one of the ones that don't understand where the line is (though debatably he crossed it a long time ago), it does not make them any less of a man or woman for making that choice. Sometimes, when you're outnumbered and out flanked by the enemy, it's better to retreat and save what you can, instead of digging in and losing everything on the off chance you might get lucky.