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Will and I got married for the extra $1452 Navy pay
Glad it worked out for you. I am an officer who wants to throw up every time military people pretend that money is not an acceptable reason for marriage. Economics has ALWAYS been an acceptable reason for marriage, throughout history, and before money existed it was sheep or beads or something similar. There is no requirement ANYWHERE that you have a certain emotional condition or feeling in order to get married or stay married. The Navy even PAYS counselors and chaplains who advise married members who do not love each other to stay together. Marriage is nothing but an agreement between two people that is then certified by the government. When the state issues a legal certificate, you have a legal marriage. All the NCIS had the right to ask was, "do you have a legal marriage certificate or not?" Their intimate prying into your private life is nothing but a disgusting witch hunt. As you came to realize, you did not have to justify to anyone why you entered into a legal marriage contract with another consenting adult. Sounds like your "shipmates" were only too happy to put on a display moral outrage, but never learned how keep their nose in their own business. The Navy as an institution violated you personally, and failed the US taxpayers, by allowing your command to waste resources on this "investigation."— February 20, 2015 11:12 a.m.