Military Date is a dating site for military men and women and the civilians who love them. This site is as drab and joyless as basic training barracks, but it may well get the job done.
Free members can create a profile with photo, but can't initiate contact. Still, at $10 per month, and no savings for a multiple-month purchase, it's cheap to join, and you can pay as you go. The profile questions are pretty boring, with nothing about interests, job description, or religion. You can state your branch (including civilian), age, marital status (includes “separated” but not “married,” swingers and polys), smoking and drinking habits, rank, closest base, and sex. There’s only one small essay portion, with only a 75-character minimum. Yes, character count, not word count.
Because the multiple-choice profile questions are so dull, searches are likewise pretty dull. While you can search for both sexes at once, you can’t search for who visited most recently (a search for who's currently online becomes pointless when there's no chatroom or IM) or just search for profiles with photos (this would narrow it down a LOT).
Most people don't put up photos, and very few write more than a paragraph in their essays. If you include a photo, write an amusing essay, and use a unique and intriguing username, you'll be head and shoulders above the ranks.
People can become “.MIL-certified,” which means that they can confirm that they indeed have a military email address. But I think it would be cooler if it really was, as I initially thought, “Mother-In-Law-certified.” Maybe your ex-wife's mom could give you her stamp of approval.
I noticed a lot more civilian women than civvie men.
There’s no site-based email program; they just forward emails anonymously between members until they decide to reveal their real email addresses.
I interviewed R.A.K, a 41-year-old hetero woman in CO, who has been a member for about two years. [DD: What led you to this site?] “With the war going on, I thought it would be a nice way to connect with a lonely soldier and hopefully establish a relationship that could maybe turn into something more.” [DD: So have you made any connections?] “I have not received or had any contact with members, and this was/is disappointing for me. My least favorite thing about the site is that it does not indicate or market specifically to civilians who might desire to find a mate in the military.”
R.A.K. was feeling discouraged about dating sites in general. “The biggest conclusion I have about dating sites is that there are SO many, and so much more now, each requires some type of fee to connect with other folks in the site. I don't know anymore; there are so many lonely people out there, and I just don't have the answer as to what is the best way to meet people. However, I can also run myself into financial ruin by paying fees to dating sites and have even had my ad sold to other sites that I did not know about and certainly did not approve of, which leads to spam and wondering who is legit out there.”
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