Friday, April 17, 2009

Were army wives allowed to go with their husbands to Southeast Asia and able to attend school there?

I was looking through some old paperwork in my basement and found a form my grandmother had filled out that said she'd attended the National University of Singapore. This is odd because as far as I knew she had been a homemaker for the majority of her life, not leaving the town she was born and raised in. My grandfather did go to Southeast Asia at some point in his military career, probably early sixties, maybe earlier.


If she was British or Australian yes it is possible, the British had a major base in Singapore until the late 60s when they gave it back to the Singapore government. She could have attended that university while he was stationed there. It is also possible if she is American that her husband was there on duty with the Embassy in which she could have come then as well. Or the US had a small presence there especially during the Vietnam war.

Yes, if they lived on a military base. I currently know a family doing pretty much exactly the same thing you described.

Yes, it is possible.

no

absolutely not!

without a draft, it is a welfare system that should come under the direction of the director of human resources and labor. we need a war department rather than a defense dept. absolute nonsense!

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