How do you make new friends when you PCS?

SFC, I go to St Mark UMC off Whitesville Rd.

Online friends are well and good, MSG, but I feel the need for some real human interaction, like someone to play games with (besides go fish, crazy 8s, and G-rated Wii games) and bare my soul to... these things just don't happen for me with my online relationships...

MAJ Miller, 

If I don't have at least one good friend, then I don't have a good excuse to get out of the house and just relax...

SGT O, I found a good friend whom enjoyed my company, we would do many things together, go to the movies, go out to dinner, but we never drank together because we both don't drink, when help was needed I was their, when I needed help they were their for me, when I was helpless they would defend me and they were helpless I would defend then, 3 years later my friend gave me something that no other friend could, a baby, look at my pic that's my son, its been 8 years and were still together. she's my wife, and if I were still in the military, she would come with me every where. She's the only friend I trust.

SSG Pabon,

I know what you mean... My wife truly is my best friend as well... and I love spending time with her and my two children, but I feel the need for a good male friend, too... someone to commiserate with when our wives are particularly grouchy, someone to laugh with about the little annoyances of marriage and fatherhood, and someone to hold me accountable to a higher standard for my family...

<p>SGT O'Neil then you have one more person to look at: "Your Self", you are your own best friend, you are the one that knows you and you are the one who gives your self the best counsel. During my time in service, I had one friend, SGT Daustrome, when he PCS, I made up my mind: I am not going to have any more friends, and sure enough I didn't, even today I have friends, but never allow anyone close to my life. I prefer to be my own friend. My friends now are friends, because they all want something, one wants what I have on my mind, another is my friend because I'm a computer tech, but no one really wants me for me, except my wife, and even&nbsp;she wants something from me. </p><p>But friends can be found in the military, any time any day. </p><p>Within your Platoon, your company, church, volunteer group meetings and so on, or your can create a Self improvement program for your self and add that to your list, I did a self improvement program for myself in my days, It worked because I created it, I added every thing I liked, all the things I wanted to learn, from exercises in the gym, to reading USC title 10, reading leadership FM's, taking courses in college and correspondence courses, reading survival FM's to treating a day out with my family to the movies and dinning out together. Nothing in the military says you can't do, you can. along the lines you will meet some great people. But most of all have fun knowing that its yours and it works for you.</p><p>The question is I can not teach you how to find friends, how ever don't be surprise if when you stop looking they find you instead&nbsp;:)</p><p><br></p>