


They are meant to be extremely close with this group of people and everyone else is simply on a need-to-know basis. The military teaches service members to trust their unit, and few others. This list is not simply a composition of pros or cons, but rather an overview of what dating a service member - active duty or veteran - is like.ġ. This is based solely on the experiences of my veteran friends, as well as my own with a past paramour. There have been a few articles about the pros and cons of dating the Generation Y military man, and while some of them are better reads than others, I felt the need to weigh in.

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at Cellar Door, the personal blog of Gabrielle Puglia.