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So there's a lot of talk about how bummed we all are about our SO's being gone/deployed, etc....

So what's the best thing about him being in the military, whatever branch that may be? I'll go first

1) i love telling ppl my fi's a captain in the military. People are 99% grateful and appreciative and apparently i get points for this, too, haha!

2) Discounts. We get to stay at lots of nice places/hotels for about half price

3) Knowing he's doing an honorable thing. I think giving back to your country is the best thing an individual can do. I have so much respect for our servicemen and women and their families

4) it makes them such a man....grrrrrr

5) i feel like b/c they are gone so often, they appreciate us more and work extra hard to make up for lost time

6) they appreciate bad home cooking...it's better than what's in the field!

Ok now you go! I could make lists all day just to be silly 

Really? no more takers? Wow!

LoL, i know, isn't it sad MightySapphire? I must say my ROTC uniform never looked cute on me. And those patent heels and hose? Very boring. There's nothing feminine about them at all! 

Well, unless you were part of that era where women were WASPS or whatever for the WWII era. I always think they looked so cute with their glam curled hair. Sort of pin up i guess but I always thought they were the cutest! 

Yay for dual military couples! I think they're the sweetest because I think it makes it much easier to understand all the stuff your SO is going through, including obligations. I used to get really frustrated when my FI would suddenly have to work til 8 or 9 in the night or some of the drama at work b/c I didn't "get it"

It's so nice to have emails now....can you imagine 20 years ago how long it took to get communication via good ole fashioned snail mail? Man! 

I think it sucks in general the military tries to defeminize (i totally made that up) women, right down to hair color, makeup, earrings, purse, etc. I think they need to loosen up a LITTLE bit to allow the women who want to be, be more feminine. I always felt like i was being turned into a man and i hated that. I understand it, but I felt like it's a huge deterrant for women in the military, too. My FI is always talking bad about women in the Army, and I just want to go give them cute bobs and makeovers! haha. I always got crap for being the girl who wore makeup and I always thought that was retarded 

Maureen, when you two get married, the military makes it a point to keep their married couples 60 miles apart as much as possible. Hopefully you'll get to see each other more frequently b/c of this. 

Interesting, my FI just had this issue at his company ball. All the women were told they COULD wear their gowns (and some spent a lot of money seeing as how they never get all dolled), and then at the last minute a commander told them they HAD to wear their uniforms.

My FI told them to wear the dresses anyways and got crabbed at for it later, lol. 

omigosh i totally forgot about the acronyms!!!! Those are something crazy. I miss my guy, too, but really, I just saw him Sunday so I shouldn't complain! 4 more weeks and we're done with his military obligation. WoohoO!

@KT_Williams, DH made some serious bank when he was deployed. His salary, tax-free....totally paid for the wedding and a nice engagement ring and helped us big time on the house. It sucked at the time, but you can't say it wasn't a nice compensation!