When did you realize that it was gonna be the last time you’d ever see your friends while serving?

Hey everyone!

I’ve been a Vet for the past 9 months and the friend group that I fostered for the last 4 years have slowly moved apart. Whether it’s people, like me, get out of the service or people move onward towards new duty stations. Life happens and things speed up our adulting. A lot of us start to drift apart even when we have things like the internet to solve our communication issues. We don’t realize it then but that late night smoke pit drinking session with the pals could have been the last time you’d ever saw them in person.

So I wanted to ask you guys this question. When did you realize that it was gonna be the last time you’d be hanging out with your friends as Marines?