Do the American soldiers ever marry the Iraqi women, like they did in Vietnam, Germany, or Korea?
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2014-05-15 10:23:22 UTC
Thousands of American soldiers have married Vietnamese, German, and Koran women during their time....but do Iraqi women and American soldiers ever mingle with each other? Or is it extremely rare due to them being Muslim?
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2014-05-15 12:03:03 UTC
I saw it happen ONCE. And it was the reverse of your question. A female US Soldier married her Iraqi interpreter.
We did have an Iraqi man in Sha'ab, IQ that kept trying to marry his four daughters off to my platoon. Not that it actually happened. Of course it didn't help his cause that the oldest was only 17 but I digress.
Armed with Inkstick
2014-05-15 17:37:44 UTC
I'm sure it happened somewhere with someone marrying a translator or someone else who had direct access to Coalition Forces, but any other access/contact with local women was heavily restricted/prohibited under GO 1.
Put simply, we were explicitly told not to consort with the local women. Made the local men angry.
Smartest Guy in the Room
2014-05-15 22:29:05 UTC
I never saw or heard of any when I was in country...we didn't trust any of them as far as we could spit...plus we weren't even supposed to do anymore than zip tie them and hold them for transport or for WM's to search them. Most of the areas I was in were considered hostile so I didn't have much interaction with any Iraq's that weren't bad guys.
Besides have you seen their women?
Drixnot
2014-05-15 18:02:46 UTC
Yes, of course.
The people mentioning religion seem to forget that there are 2.5 million Muslim in the US. They also seem to think that there are no Christians in Iraq, but 5% of the Iraq population is Christian.
☦ICXCNIKA ☦
2014-05-15 19:36:03 UTC
There was this dude Sgt. Sean Blackwell who married an Iraqi woman I think she is an MD