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This sailor requested leave to get his wife pregnant. It was approved.
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This sailor requested leave to get his wife pregnant. It was approved.

Jimmie Dempsey
Last updated: April 4, 2025 1:14 am
Jimmie Dempsey Published April 4, 2025
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Like a lion stalking its prey across the Serengeti, so too does a Jody hunt — lurking in the night, ever vigilant in hopes of hearing that one magic word: “Deployment.”

So, how does one stop an insatiable Jody in his tracks? For one seaman, the solution was simple: Beat out the competition by simply being there.

On July 20, 1967, Petty Officer 1st Class David Jarvis Anderson submitted an unusual special leave request. His plea was simple.

“My wife is planning on getting pregnant this weekend,” he wrote, “and I would sure like to be there when it happens.”

Anderson’s tongue-in-cheek entreaty seemed to have worked. It was, after all, the Summer of Love.

Best way to ensure that you’re the father? Be the one in the room. (Screenshot/Historycoolkids via IG)

While requests for special liberty can often reduce a poor service member to a desperate husk of a man, in 1967, it appears that the powers that be were a little more forgiving — allowing for Anderson to enjoy shore leave in the right port during a particularly crucial tide.

In traveling the seven-plus hours from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the coal mining town of Layland, West Virginia, the sailor thwarted all would-be Jody’s in the area upon his arrival home.

No word was readily available, however, on whether the pair’s weekend’s festivities produced the desired result.

Observation Post is the Military Times one-stop shop for all things off-duty. Stories may reflect author observations.

Claire Barrett is the Strategic Operations Editor for Sightline Media and a World War II researcher with an unparalleled affinity for Sir Winston Churchill and Michigan football.

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