My ex-fiance was in the Marine Corps. I knew he traveled from 29 Palms in California back to Virginia for Christmas. Here’s the strange part: I heard a rumor from a mutual friend of ours that he deserted and has been living in Virginia with a friend for over two months. He found out he was deploying and didn’t want to go to war. His mom is denying it up and down, but there are a lot of really weird things going on with this situation. Do these sound like coincidences?
1. He bought a car out in California. It had CA tags and everything. It’s now sitting on his mom’s property out behind a shed and covered in a tarp. She told me that he couldn’t “afford” it anymore so he left it hear when he came home for Christmas. They took the tags off and the license plates off because he didn’t want to “pay” for it anymore. Am I the only one that thinks this sounds stupid? Just because he takes the tags off doesn’t mean he doesn’t have to pay for the car. And what good is it doing sitting in VA?
2. We had been on pretty good speaking terms for the last year. The last time I talked to him was in December. Since Christmas he’s had his phone cut off and no longer gets on any of his social networking sites. His mom said he has not gotten a new phone number.
3. He told me before that he was “non-deployable” because of his MOS (he’s a cook). I told him that didn’t make any sense because he would deploy with his unit. The unit he’s in is now up for deployment (it says so on their website). His mom told me that the chance of him going overseas is “slim”.
4. His sister posted pictures of him at his house over a period of 2 months – I thought Marines only got 30 days of leave a year (I might be wrong about this, but he was in pictures in Dec. 21 and again in Jan. and Feb. pictures). His sister and I are still good friends through Myspace.
Does anyone else think it sounds like his mother is lying for him? I know this is none of my business, but we were together when he got stationed out in California and up until December we were on speaking terms. He suddenly disappeared out of thin air but apparently he’s “in CA and fine” according to his mom.
I’m honestly confused about this situation. I trust our mutual friend and I don’t think he’d lie to me, but I can’t understand why anyone would simply up and desert from the Marines, especially when they’d been in there for 3 years already.
