You can’t outrun the military.

“I served in the Navy from 1985 to 2005. While in my first squadron, from 1985-1989, we were away from home often, either on short detachments of 2-5 weeks or 6-month deployments. During one period when we were at home for awhile, I was on watch in the duty office after hours. I and another guy just had to man the office, answer the phone, and monitor the guys on watch down in the hangar bay.

Shortly after our watch started, we got a phone call from a wife of someone in our squadron. She was asking us when the squadron would be back from detachment. I asked the other guy if he knew about anybody out on detachment, and he just looked at me funny.

I told her we didn’t currently have anyone one on detachment. We’ve all been back home for a couple months. She insisted her husband had been out on detachment for three weeks and needed to know when he was coming home. I assured her nobody was on detachment and told her I had seen her husband earlier that day at work. She just hung up after that.

As it turns out, the guy was telling his wife he was out on detachment and shacking up with his girlfriend for a few weeks. She called the Commanding Officer to find out when her husband had been part of a detachment and found out he’d done it many times over the previous couple years. Infidelity is officially against the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

It didn’t turn out well for him.”