How much do you stay in touch with old military friends?

The older I get the more I find a desire to reconnect with past military friends. I have begun to attend more reunions and joined several military associations.

Facebook is the primary method of staying in touch. Now I don't speak with all of them every day, but I probably do chat with at least 1 or 2 every week. The biggest reason is life happens. Everyone's on different corners of the globe, people raise families, get jobs, work weird schedules. All the usual reasons people don't speak often.

I also still work with Marines, so I get to stay in touch with a couple of my Marine friends who haven't PCSd yet or aren't deployed.

Does this help with anything, well in my opinion, I feel it helps with the camaraderie. Being able to talk to someone who equally understands the military experience can be therapeutic.

I only have a couple that I communicate with throughout the year. We don't speak very often but whenever any of us have needed anything, we always step in to help no questions asked. I would actually like to speak to more of them but have been looking for years and unable to find them.