Quote Originally Posted by Storekeeper View Post

Do you think the number of Thai girls marrying US military guys when we had bases there ever came close to the numbers of Filipinas snagging Yank husbands?
I very much doubt it. Thais are not as desperate to get out of LOS as Flips are to get out of here. Also, in the Vietnam days, it was very hard for a trooper to marry. Basically, he pretty much had to finish his tour, and come back as a civilian to do it. It could be done, and was, but they threw up a lot of roadblocks.

In contrast, when the USN left Subic for Guam after Pinatubo, they had teams of preachers on the gangplank marrying squids and their long-term honeys as the ships got underway.