Most people are idiots with their money following deployment. Don’t follow them to the poor house.

My old unit had just got back from a nine-month mobilization to the sandbox. If you took an outside look at the living quarters, one thing was for sure… there were a lot of guys that were ‘deployment rich’ blowing off some serious steam. A bunch of dudes that had just spent the better part of a year getting sand in their ass crack finally home to enjoy spending some of the money they couldn’t or didn’t spend.

These guys were ballin’ out. All kinds of new whips and motorcycles and toys and vroom vroom shit all over the parking lot. Everyone had brand new clothes and shoes and watches and gucci sunglasses. New guns and knives and hunting bows. High quality liquors were flowing… not the bottom shelf trash (that still does the job, but tastes like shit and delivers terrible hangovers that make you want to die) that can usually be found in housing on bases across this great nation.

With flashy new shit and cash being thrown around, a new element usually enters the picture quite rapidly… barracks bunnies. And oh were they afoot. A couple guys even got married to their new girlfriends within the first couple weeks of returning home.

Life was good. New cars, new clothes, new girls, and money. I’ve never seen more happiness than seeing a military unit return from overseas.

Fast forward 8 weeks… the first Soldier enters my office with a little issue. He tells me with tears in his eyes that his landlord is being a dick, and if he doesn’t come up with this month’s rent in the next 3 days, he will be evicted from his apartment. What. in. the. fuck. bro. How are you that strapped for cash immediately following not being able to spend that much money for nine months?

We got the man the help he needed and he was able to keep his apartment through a program that financially assisted Soldiers… but he was one of the lucky ones.

One by one they fell. I don’t know the exact number of massively shitty financial situations that came about in our unit, but it was definitely greater than 10. I’m talking bankruptcies, evictions, and repossessions. Even some divorces (which are expensive as fuck) and at least one case of a girlfriend running away with a bunch of cash.

It was complete pandemonium.

Lucky for you clowns, here at Blue Falcon Finance, we compiled the data from this unfortunate and preventable shit show of financial failure and came up with a list of tips and tricks to keep your bank account looking right during and after deployment.

Here we go:

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